Whether we are looking at religious sects masquerading as Christian or Muslim fronts, or Asian scientology-esque Falun Gong cults Xi…

Source Susan Glasser in The New Yorker: Every Administration produces a shelf full of memoirs, of the score-settling variety and otherwise.…

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/asimq_if-you-want-to-eliminate-corruption-in-a-activity-6840188762383884288-JGNg “If you want to eliminate corruption in a society, the most effective way to do it is not to…

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/31/911-inside-the-presidents-war-room-review-astonishing-and-petrifying A leader forced to make epic choices on the hop … President George W Bush, on Air Force 1…

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/china/story20210830-1188198 中国多家官媒昨天（29日）集中转发一篇自媒体评论文章，文中指中国官方近期在各个领域的一系列整治动作是一场“深刻变革”，并称阻挡这场变革的“将被抛弃”。 这篇题为《每个人都能感受到，一场深刻的变革正在进行！》的文章最初由微信公众号“李光满冰点时评”发表，但过后被人民网、新华网、央视网、中国军网、光明网、中青在线、中新网、环球网等众多官媒转发。 文章说，从蚂蚁上市被叫停，到中央整顿经济秩序、反垄断，到阿里被罚182亿元（人民币，下同，约37.88亿新元）和滴滴被查，到隆重纪念建党100周年，提出走共同富裕道路，以及最近对娱乐圈乱象的一系列整治动作，“都在告诉我们，中国从经济领域、金融领域、文化领域到政治领域都在发生一场“深刻的变革”，或者也可以说是一场‘深刻的革命’”。 文章写道，“这是一次从资本集团向人民群众的回归，这是一次以资本为中心向以人民为中心的变革”，“这是一场政治变革，人民正在重新成为这场变革的主体，所有阻挡这场以人民为中心变革的都将被抛弃”，这场深刻的变革也是一次回归，“向着中国共产党的初心回归，向着以人民为中心回归，向着社会主义本质回归”。 文章还说，变革将荡涤一切尘埃，资本市场不再成为资本家一夜暴富的天堂，文化市场不再成为娘炮明星的天堂，新闻舆论不再成为崇拜西方文化的阵地，“红色回归，英雄回归，血性回归”。

https://www.economist.com/china/2021/08/28/china-would-rather-be-feared-than-defied Nationalist outrage has often served China well over the years, but that may be changing CHINA HAS an anger-management…

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-claims-its-plans-redistribute-wealth-wont-involve-killing-rich Earlier this month, luxury goods stocks tumbled on reports that President Xi planned to shift the focus of a…

https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/the-bitter-fruits-of-interventionism As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam,…

Next time you hear that China is the cause of your problems, take a step back and ask yourself why…