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Category Archives: China
Maoism: A Global History
Julia Lovell writes in her 2019 book: * After 1949, the book’s [Red Star Over China] message would come full circle. Even though Mao himself never showed any desire to go back to Yan’an, the symbolic birthplace of Maoism, he … Continue reading
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The Private Life Of Chairman Mao
Here are some highlights from this 1996 book: * He sought to triumph over death through Daoist methods of sex. He followed no schedule except on May Day and National Day and on the rare occasions when he received foreign … Continue reading
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#108 11-13-18 Why Are California’s Wildfires So Wild?
00:00 California’s fires 01:00 Are Progressives using California’s wildfires to preserve the global warming hypothesis? 28:00 CA’s homeless problem 30:00 Rodney Martin, long-time California resident, joins. 36:00 California and the end of civilization 58:00 Is Barack Obama a swish? 1:04:00 … Continue reading
The Chinese View Of Trump
Steve Sailer writes: From the Financial Times via Marginal Revolution: I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by [Trump’s] skill as a strategist and tactician…He [Yafei] worries that strategic … Continue reading
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America Gets Smart With Chinese Students
With America headed towards inevitable military conflict with China, why on earth are we arming the enemy by allowing them to get educated here and steal our technology? From the New York Times: The American intelligence community, however, has increasingly … Continue reading
JTA: This Jewish lawmaker wanted to keep Chinese immigrants out. Should a park be named after him?
From JTA: The elder Kahn, a Republican from San Francisco who served 12 terms in Congress between 1899 and his death in 1924, championed an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1902 prohibiting immigration by Chinese laborers. While doing … Continue reading
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Chinese Cheat Close To 100% Of The Time
Bloomberg: “Statistically we’re uncovering fraud about 70 percent of the time, but in China it’s very close to 100 percent. It’s pervasive, it’s across food groups, and it’s anything you can possibly imagine.”
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Moses Wouldn’t Expect ‘China’ to Change
Chris* writes: In fact, no rational observer since Hegel has doubted his incisive judgment that nothing fundamental has changed in China over a span of three-plus millennia (‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History,’ ca. 1830). Hegel didn’t make it perfectly … Continue reading
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Jews, Opium and the Kimono: Story of the Jews in the Far East (2003)
From page 72: [In 1932, Jewish] refugees were amazed to encounter the prosperous local community and to realise that Shanghai remained the only city open in the world, where visas were not required. Page 79: [White] Russian officers taught the … Continue reading
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WP: ‘Yale dean once championed cultural sensitivity. Then she called people ‘white trash’ on Yelp.’
Washington Post: As the dean of Yale University’s Pierson College, June Chu is responsible for advising about 500 students and fostering “a familiar, comfortable living environment” in keeping with the university’s residential college system. Chu’s biography states she has a … Continue reading
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