May 2016

In politics, diplomacy, and foreign relations, most would agree that people and nations are realists with a short-term or a long-term view. Sure, there is always ideology at play in the domains of politics and foreign affairs, but in the timeline of history, vast number of principal involved inevitably have yielded their principles and ideologies to reality, especially over a long time. In hindsight,...

An anonymous 50-page document discussing the brief Sino-Vietnam war (SVW) in 1979 came to my mailbox recently. The document implied that it was written by a Western analyst and translated to Mandarin by the analyst’s colleague. The document was suppressed from publication because the superior of the analyst felt that too much credit and praise were given to the Chinese leader, Deng Xiao Ping....

Recently, I came across a Chinese article by Xue Zong Zhang (张雪忠),Why is Hu Shi (a famous Chinese intellect and author in 20th century; he is regarded as a promoter of liberalism not only in his time but beyond through his writings) a Half Baked Liberal?, on the “Baodiao Forum” (an intellectual  forum devoted to discussions on Chinese governance and Chinese Sovereignty issues such...