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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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
Yan and Sautman: “Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?”
Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for? Barry Sautman Associate Professor Division of Social Science Hong Kong University of Science Technology Yan Hairong Anthropologist Department of Applied Social Sciences Hong Kong Polytechnic University In recent weeks, Nobel prizewinner Liu Xiaobo's politics have been reduced to a story of a … [Read more...] about Yan and Sautman: “Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?”
Nobel Peace Prize Award, and reactions from Russia
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award to Liu Xiaobo yesterday at Oslo made headlines in the West, and as expected, the Western media continued the same narrative. As I was hearing Thorbjorn Jagland over the radio presenting the award and then followed by Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann's reading aloud Liu's statements (written two days prior to his 11-year sentencing), I was … [Read more...] about Nobel Peace Prize Award, and reactions from Russia
“Liu Xiaobo Deserves an Ig Nobel Peace Prize” – the latest reaction to buzz the West
"Liu Xiaobo Deserves an Ig Nobel Peace Prize" is a recent reaction from Barry Sautman (a political scientist and lawyer at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) and Yan Hairong (an anthropologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University) on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo. Roland Song's ESWN (東南西北) has also brought this to his readers attention. No … [Read more...] about “Liu Xiaobo Deserves an Ig Nobel Peace Prize” – the latest reaction to buzz the West