This post began as a response to a comment in an earlier blog post, where my friend Paul recommended that I read the following link: Google vs China: capitalist model, virtual wall, which I have done, and which initiated this entry. What I see at this point as possibly the most important aspect in this [...]
Further Thoughts on Google, China and the U. S. State Department
January 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Internet Freedom Speech: The Morning After
January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
I have slept “on the speech” and I must be frank, nothing more came to me that I didn’t go to bed with. Perhaps, you might think, reading Samuel Beckett’s Molloy as I nodded off didn’t help, but I’d argue that anything Beckett is required for preparing for the discussion of any topic that is [...]
What Just Happened?
February 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
What a difference a few years makes. Hillary in Beijing in 1995 and again in 2009 is a study in sharp contrast. The only thing missing on camera this past weekend was a kowtow. There was a very ‘by the short hairs’ feeling to this one. One can only hope she managed to say something [...]