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I wrote before the election why I prefer Hillary over Trump because she will be a competent leader managing the slow decline of American Empire, while Trump will be an incompetent megalomania accelerating the decline and endangering the world. Now after more than a year into his presidency, his incompetence is in full display, and his danger to the world is worrying everyone … [Read more...] about Trump

Recent announcement of the revision of Chinese constitution removing term limit for President and Vice President generated a lot of commotion in the Western press and some opposition from small group of intellectuals, mostly liberals, human right lawyers, and some with bad memories from Cultural Revolution. The superficial reflexes are it's bad for China, Lord Acton's maxim, … [Read more...] about On the Question of Term Limit

During the recent spring gala on CCTV1, one episode portraying friendship between China and Africa caused some backlashes mostly from liberals and America educated Chinese students on whether China was insensitive or was racism. To me it's instructive that actually it shows the U.S. centric view on culture and the brain washing or propaganda that most are unaware. To be … [Read more...] about Spring Gala, Race, and Cultural Brain Washing

After living in U.S. for a long time, I am still surprised by the ignorance of Americans toward China. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised giving they did elect a semiliterate ignoramus Trump as president and most of them are ignorant of American history, not to mention Chinese history. Yet those CIA analysts and those from academia continue to display arrogance and … [Read more...] about China, U.S., and the World.

After the deluge of tweets by Donald Trump after the New Year one can't help but questioning not only his qualification as the leader of U.S. presidency, but his sanity. Those so called serious people in DC no longer call out President Xi as authoritarian, and U.S. president as symbol of democracy, but avoid the comparison totally. Foreign leaders are now embarrassed and … [Read more...] about Being There