In 2017 the American government funded 48 anti-China groups and organizations through its «National Endowment for Democracy» (NED), – in order oppose and harm China and to create social and ethnic tensions and conflicts inside China. Recently NED has been focusing on Xinjiang, and as a consequence there has been negative reports about the situation there in many Western … [Read more...] about «The National Endowment for Democracy» and China
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Indonesia’s Hidden Holocaust
Joshua Oppenheimer is an Oscar-nominated American film director based in Denmark. He recently produced two award-winning documentaries on the genocide perpetrated by the Indonesian government against ethnic Chinese and others throughout Indonesia in 1965-69. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning that atrocity. Joshua penned what I think is a great op-ed in … [Read more...] about Indonesia’s Hidden Holocaust
Fukushima, dropped phone calls, and a three-minute summary of U.S. foreign policy
The three topics in the title are really disjoint. I have been wanting to blog about them over the last few days but decided to give a quick take on each in this post. Seeing the mindless buying of salt in China, I am reminded in a land of 1.3 billion people, there must be at least some millions of lemmings. That being the case, I do believe at any moment in time, there … [Read more...] about Fukushima, dropped phone calls, and a three-minute summary of U.S. foreign policy