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https://www.economist.com/china/2023/03/02/how-to-prevent-sycophancy-in-chinas-civil-service The country’s government is organised in a way that could help Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty is often regarded as one of China’s greatest rulers, in part because…
https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/02/02/explaining-chinese-amnesia-over-the-cultural-revolution In “Red Memory” Tania Branigan looks at how and why China chooses to forget Feb 2nd 2023 Red Memory. By Tania Branigan. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $29.95. Faber &…
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/putins-conundrum/ The primary purpose of the Nuclear Posture Review(NPR) is to deceptively “rebrand” the offensive use of nuclear weapons as a justifiable act of defense. The new criteria for using…
https://qr.ae/prpy4V Reduce the temptation. The temptation of corruption lies on a risk-reward spectrum, with very high temptation at the low risk-high reward end, and very low temptation at the high…
Gareth Evans in Project Syndicate: This century has not been kind to human-rights optimists, with 2022 being no exception. Many gains in the recognition and protection of the universal rights…
Anna I. Krylov in Heterodox STEM: My everyday experiences as a chemistry professor at an American university in 2021 bring back memories from my school and university time in the…
The Importance of Seeing Things Whole by Andrew Bard Schmookler [This is the sixth and final entry in the series I’ve offered here.] Please Permit Me to Talk as if…
https://www.ft.com/content/269b1a53-dd66-4446-8da8-f54d39403bfc When conversations in Singapore turn to souring geopolitics, there are some who cannot resist pointing out the upside. Of course nobody wants a new cold war, assures one former…
Death-Ridden West Ramps Pressure on China to Abandon Zero-Covid Policy For Western media to harangue China over its zero-Covid policy and to try to blame China for the failure of…
by Andrea Scrima I moved to Berlin in 1984, but have rarely written about my experiences living in a foreign country; now that I think about it, it occurs to…