Absurdity, Allegory and China

I’ve written in here a time or two concerning the rule of law, so it seems appropriate to illustrate what that term means to some people, and why it’s sometimes necessary to publicly demand it when confronted with its opposite. Below is an email from a US friend, a Democrat, who went to her polling [...]

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To be officially an atheistic country does not mean there isn’t religion in China, or within the hearts of some of those who sit in The Great Hall of the People. A religion often has nothing to do with a god. In a nominally communist country with 5,000 years – count ‘em, f-i-v-e [...]

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What will happen tonight, in three hours, in Lhasa may very well hold the key not only to the Olympics, but also to China’s future. If the Chinese actually do strike harshly after the midnight hour passes, then there is a very good chance that there will be growing support for an international Olympic boycott. [...]

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Depending on who you read, the dates given for the beginning of the Warring States period (Zhanguo Shidai) in Chinese history vary. There was no demarcating event – no Sarajevo or Pearl Harbor, no bold first incident that set the wheels of chaos in motion. It was not as if there wasn’t any war and [...]

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