Seeing Is Still Believing In Xinjiang, If You Do It Right
The Xinjiang news kept coming to me even though I really prefer not seeing the fighting scenes. I like pretty things in life, the positive things, the forward looking things
Category: Law and politics
No Genocide In Xinjiang Beyond Reasonable Doubt
An Updated Genocide Charge This newly released report by the Newlines Institute in March of 2021 renews or updates the genocide charge against China, this time focusing on the state
The Alleged & Real Problems In Xinjiang
After finishing the data analyses using Xinjiang Statistics Yearbooks, I have kept telling /reminding myself that data analyses can only do so much. Many things in real life may not
Three Domestic Issues Deserve Public Attention
Even Diary Go Bears! Yesterday I went to watch two soccer matches, one for girls against Oregon State in the afternoon, another for boys also against Oregon State at night.
China’s Failures In Hong Kong & Taiwan
“You are what you eat.” How true that is! For most of my life I have been eating pork and rice. Since moved to Berkeley (no causal relation, just a
Democracy Vs. Authoritarianism
The Suspicious Princelings My biggest learning from this WSJ article on the Ant IPO is the hidden role played by the most powerful families like the grandson of former president
Why China Has A Weak Demand For Democracy
The US is accusing China for not developing democracy after its economic growth. This is not exactly a fair accusation because the formula of economic growth pushing up democracy was
We Have China’s Regulators To Thank For A Killed “Grey Rhino” Event
I have been reading and thinking of the halted/suspended Ant Group IPO, one of the most dramatic head-on collides between governmental regulators and China’s celebrity entrepreneur Jack Ma, with his
American Friends & American Foes
Notes to myself: I have been preoccupied with the Xinjiang genocide investigation but the following thoughts came to my mind and I took notes of them in a draft blog.
Genocide or No Genocide, There Are Many Questions Part V
Part IV has focused on Table 3-6, I want to add more data analysis by other tables and also to give some background discussion on the forced sterilization, which is