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Aamir Khan’s Dangal Takes China by Storm
Pakistani academic and ex-diplomat Aamir Khan is an old friend, and he recently wrote a piece on why Dangal is such a hit in China. What do you think? Excerpt: But why did the Chinese fall in love with...
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The Man on Mao’s Right..
“The Man on Mao’s Right” is the memoir of Ji Chaozhu, a Chinese diplomat who worked as an interpreter for several decades before being promoted to more substantive positions, ending his career as...
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Will the US Continue to Attract International Science Talent?
We had a little discussion on Twitter about this topic. It was triggered by this post by Sam Altman @Sama, (about increasing political censorship of heterodox ideas in Silicon valley) but became a more...
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Ranking Mass Murder..
Ian Johnson in the NYRB asks the question: Who killed more? and does it matter? The people on the list are Mao, Stalin and Hitler. Obviously Pol Pot does not make it because there were not enough...
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Review: Enter the Dragon. China’s undeclared war against the US in Korea
Russel Spurr was a British-Australian journalist who spent most of his life reporting from East Asia (20 years in Hong Kong), during which time he made many trips to China and Taiwan and interviewed...
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Intellectual Dark Web
I would define the “intellectual dark web” as the confluence and convergence of leaders from classical European enlightenment, hard sciences, technology (including neuroscience, bio-engineering,...
View ArticleIndia Still Rising
The Honorable former U.S. ambassador to India David C. Mulford’s summary of why India is rapidly becoming a great global superpower and why PM Modi might become the best PM in Indian history. My...
View ArticleRising global caste and tribalism
Related articles: American Caste Is American culture sharply increasing crime? How should we respond if someone says “mean mad asian man”? Intellectual Dark Web (a) Intellectual Dark Web Should Amy...
View ArticleKailasha and Soma central to Arya culture?
Please read the following: Historical Proof that Lord Shiva Resides in Kailash The mystery and secret of Mount Kailash Does fear of Lord Shiva residing on Mount Kailash Valmiki Ramayana Kishkindha...
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Perhaps India is not special in resisting Islamicization
I have posted my thoughts as to why India, unlike Iran or Central Asia, resisted total Islamicization, before. It seems to be a phenomenon that demands an explanation. And yet does it? As I read F. W....
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The education of the people of Tianzhu
Someone on Twitter mentioned that there were references to Shakespeare in the recent ruling to decriminalize homosexuality in India. This is reflective of the fact that some of the ambition to create...
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Review: Raiders of the China Coast
Raiders of the China Coast is the account of a little known CIA operation that trained and managed anti-communist guerrillas and agents on the various islands that were retained by the Taiwanese...
View ArticleIndia Still Rising (a)
This is the second article in this series after India Still Rising. India’s ministry of external affairs has little understanding of China, America, India or the world. The ministry of external...
View ArticleIs it time for Asian Americans and Latino Americans to ask to be considered...
This is the next article in the series “Is it time for Asian Americans and Latino Americans to ask to be considered “white.” Please also read Razib’s Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act on Affirmative Action....
View ArticleIs it time for Asian Americans and Latino Americans to ask to be considered...
This is the next article in the series “Is it time for Asian Americans and Latino Americans to ask to be considered “white”, “Is it time for Asian Americans and Latino Americans to ask to be...
View ArticleI now support quotas on (South) Asian Americans at elite universities (a)
This is a follow up to: I now support quotas on (South) Asian Americans at elite universities Video gets especially interesting 16 minutes in. Some main take aways: Almost half of all people in the...
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China’s demographic disaster impacts Pakistan
The AP has a long and sad story out, Pakistani Christian girls trafficked to China as brides. One must be careful of sensational stories that hit a lot of our emotional buttons, but it seems deeply...
View ArticleSince 1989
China is an authoritarian, in some ways totalitarian, nation-state. But we need to keep the larger perspective in mind as well. Judge a society by how the odds are for the least of them.
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The Ideal and the Practical — the Practice
I’d written a response to @AnAn and included a quote from the Chuang Tzu’s chapter on Lord Wen-hui and what he learned from his Cook Ting, and wanted to throw in the following DoubleQuote — but...
View ArticleIndia Still Rising (c)
One of the economists I follow is Rathin Roy [member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.] India has several major long term growth challenges. One is geographic inequality in growth....
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