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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

Recent fires outside Beijing and in Tianjin caused stirs in Chinese internet and criticism of safety violations, non performance of local officials, and the resulting hasty eviction of migrant workers in unsafe buildings. There was also the uproar of kindergarten abuse of children and swirling of rumors. Those incidences are the results of growing pains of urbanization. Even in … [Read more...] about Great Fire Wall and Cyber Sovereignty