August 2020

 The human society is under an unprecedented test by the COVID-19 pandemic on top of numerous natural disasters such as earth-quakes, floods, even grasshoppers and man-made turmoil such as violent riots, massive protests, never ending vicious military confrontations and wars. The U.S. as the richest nation and the only superpower in the word has been leading the world for the past eight decades,...

 Following the DNC held in Milwaukee from August 17th to 20th, the 2020 RNC was also held for four days, from August 24th to 27th. The choice of dates was a smart one for the simple reason that the media had to put more attention on covering the on-going RNC than following up the post-DNC conversations. So would the general public including me in spending our time. Trump has TV experience and...

 The human society is under an unprecedented test by the COVID-19 pandemic on top of numerous natural disasters such as earth-quakes, floods, even grasshoppers and man-made turmoil such as violent riots, massive protests, never ending vicious military confrontations and wars. The U.S. as the richest nation and the only superpower in the word has been leading the world for the past eight decades,...

 Following the DNC held in Milwaukee from August 17th to 20th, the 2020 RNC was also held for four days, from August 24th to 27th. The choice of dates was a smart one for the simple reason that the media had to put more attention on covering the on-going RNC than following up the post-DNC conversations. So would the general public including me in spending our time. Trump has TV experience and...

 Abstract This is the first part of two-part essay on American Presidential election. In part I, we review the 2020 Democratic National Convention providing the readers a quick grasp of the convention proceeding in chronological order and topical interest. The author’s personal observation, general impression and post convention comments will be given at the end. Part II will be on 2020 RNC.————————————————————– The...

The COVID-19 pandemic broke out all over the world, statistics now showed that there were 17.6 m cases world wide with over 679k deaths reported. The U.S., Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa are the top five infected nations. The death score of this pandemic disease has already surpassed several previous pandemic such as Spanish flu and Swine Flu with death toll at 675K (1918-1920) and 12,469 (2009-2010)...

 The author selects this serious topic because he is concerned with the current U.S. foreign policy and the U.S. education system. ‘Isolationism’ had appeared numerous times in U.S. foreign policy since its founding days, but in reality, ‘isolationism’ had very different political meaning at different times including today. George Washington accepted temporary alliance...

​The title question  is an important one that all Americans should think about. The US-China relation, most important one to both nations, is reaching a dangerous state – trade war, closing consulate office, sabre rattling in the South China Sea and worst our top diplomat, Secretary of State, instead of handling US-China relations with diplomacy, is delivering a hostile speech at an open forum...

​ The India-China border issue dates back to 1914 when British Proposed a border line between Simla (Colonial India) and Tibet, called the McMahon line but China refused to accept it, thus the hardly habitable high-mountain borderline was never settled.  In 1947 India became independent from Britain and in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party founded the People’s Republic of China. The...