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I am doing another in the occasional Sinocism Live chats this Thursday March 20th at 8PM ET. My guest is Jon Czin, now of Brookings, before that at the CIA and the NSC. It should be a good conversation about US-China relations, Xi Jinping and PRC elite politics, and some other fun topics. If you are not yet a Sinocism subscriber please …
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The current shutdown of VOA has likely marked the end of my employment there. So, I’m looking for new work opportunities.
I’m a China-focused reporter based in Washington DC covering disinformation, internet surveillance and how AI is impacting these areas.
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Today on Royals Extra I delved into the “Special Relationship” between the United States and Britain, focusing first on the delicate diplomacy facing King Charles III as he navigates overtures to Donald Trump with his support for Ukraine and Canada—two countries currently at odds with the American president. I traced the Anglo-American a…
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Writing this post - on hickory golf in 40mph winds on the very crust of East Lothian - was almost as much fun as the game it covers. Almost…
Check out my new report, it elaborates how the Pakistan has been intriguing a dirty game, to eliminate religious scholars criticising the military establishment policies in Pakistan and across the region.
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The former head of the UK's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, told Boris Johnson in early 2020 that the Covid virus escaped from the Wuhan lab. That means that the US, UK, Chinese, & German governments all knew the truth, covered it up, and spread disinformation. Case closed.
China had little difficulty defeating the USA in 1951 and would have much less difficulty today. Its sophisticated detection system, coupled with massive missile superiority, ensures that.
And corruption is far more pervasive in the US military-industrial complex than in China's, btw, as results demonstrate.
Maps can clarify geopolitical relationships—both historical and current—but they are not always the best tool for understanding complex political realities. At the risk of oversimplifying, we created a map of regional alignments in Sudan’s civil war.
One key dilemma was whether to color Ethiopia and Kenya red, indicating alignment with th…
