Obama’s Economic Package
So I voted for Obama not because of his economic views, but because of Sarah Palin’s political views. As a result, I see myself disagreeing with a lot of Obama’s economic plans. Let’s look at the ‘key...
View ArticleNPR, Forum, and the Interview with Orville Schell
I’ve read a couple of Orville Schell’s books and some other collected works that he edited, like ‘The China Reader’, so I was really excited when I heard he was being interviewed on NPR. For the most...
View Article6-4
Another anniversary date has come and gone (at least in China). The media frenzy in the west with its coverage of human rights in China will slowly fade away and become forgotten for another year. The...
View ArticleIranian Protests from a Historical Perspective
It’s pretty difficult to tell whether or not such protests would be successful or not. For example, back in 1989, there were a lot of successful non-violent and violent revolutions that took place. The...
View ArticleRodney King and the Xinjiang Riots
Scores Killed in China Protests – BBC News Order partially restored in violence-plagued Urumqi, situation still tense – People’s Daily The Urumqi Mass Incident – EastSouthWestNorth Blog Quick summary:...
View ArticleRetaliation
The Cycle Continues Later hundreds of Han Chinese marched through the streets of Urumqi smashing shops and stalls belonging to Uighurs. The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville, in Urumqi, says some of the...
View ArticleGoogle v. CCP and Ideology v. Profit
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html Google declared that they’re going to try and negotiate with the CCP to uncensor their google.cn site. As most people are saying, the...
View ArticleDays of Rage/Anger/Unhappiness and 6.4.1989
Tunisia and Egypt got through their protests with relatively few casualties. The army wasn’t sent in to crack down or anything like that. Maybe they military weren’t willing to go in and shoot people...
View ArticleJasmine Revolution
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12522856 I liked the part where they said the crowd “appeared to be mostly curious onlookers”. Reminds me of the Carrefour protests where a good number of...
View ArticleLibya and Tianamen
Interesting BBC Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12544624 Here’s a nice quote from everybody’s beloved Gaddafi: Anyone who played games with the country’s unity would be executed,...
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