Absurdity, Allegory and China

Last March I wrote a post anticipating the Olympic protests in support of a ‘free’ Tibet. Nothing prescient, mind you; anyone with a tooth in their head, and a lot of folks without, could have anticipated attempts at extreme displays. If your plan is to make a scene, I am asking you to review your [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I watched the video of the April 19, 2008 anti-CNN demonstration in Los Angeles by a large group of Chinese supporters, many of them mainland students on ‘student visas’ in the US. I thought, “Good for them”, they get a chance to see how freedom of speech really works – a minority opinion [...]

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