Book Reviews
Bell, Sir Charles; Portrait of a Dalai Lama – The Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth
Grey, Ian; Catherine the Great – Autocrat and Empress of Russia
Laird, Thomas; The Story of Tibet – Conversations With the Dalai Lama
Montefiore, Simon Sebag; Catherine and Potemkin – The Imperial Love Affair
Rounding, Virginia; Catherine the Great - Love, Sex and Power
Smith, Warren J; Tibetan Nation – A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations
Soloveytchik, George; Potemkin – A Picture of Catherine's Russia
Yan Jirong; China's Governance
China Intercontinental Press's “Sinopedia” SeriesPart 1: China's History, China's Culture, China's Social Development.
Part 2: China's Ethnic Groups and Religions, China's Laws, China's Political System
Part 3: China's Economy, China's Geography, China's Environment
Part 4: China's National Defense, China's Laws, China's Science, Technology and Education
End Of Year Book Tally
Biographies
Chinese Culture and History
Modern History
- My thoughts back in 2018, about the Xi regime
- China has a superstition about years ending in "9"
- Again and again, America has saved helpless little China
Ancient History
- Contrary to their propaganda, China is not 5,000 years old
- They've been aggressive for their entire existence
- They've also been brutally tyrannical for their entire history
Culture and Society
Jingoism has always been the root of China's identity, and now they admit that
China's surveillance state bears eerie Biblical similarities
China's petulant juvenility is on display at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics
Chinese Politics and Current Events
Bubonic Plague Returns
- Beijing admits Bubonic Plague outbreak: October, 2020
- Plague update: Thanksgiving, 2019
- The Plague rises again (along with numerous other diseases): Summer, 2019
- The fallacy of China's laughable claim of "victory over poverty"
Covid-19
- The Chinese government's botched response, and evidence that it is manmade
- The CPC's laughable committee to fight the coronavirus
- China's attempts to portray themselves as heroes of the coronavirus fight
- How being too cozy with China doomed Italy
- America's opportunity to crush Covid-battered China
China's foreign aggression
- An early look at China's "nine dash LIE"
- The Reed Bank incident: the PLA's assault on Filipino fishermen in Philippine waters
- The case of Chemi Lhampo: China's act of war against Canada
- The case of Norman Easy: China's assassination of a US citizen
- China started 2019 by preparing for war (against Taiwan?)
- Xi Jinping has rather openly claimed the Philippines and Brunei
- China's drug war against the U.S.
- China's drug war against the Philippines
- China's attempts to control the media in Australia
- The Confucius Institute has been a weaponized propaganda tool from the beginning
- China's Eco-piracy and mass plundering of the seas
China's weaknesses
- My early examination of China's weak status
- China has covered its weaknesses using bluster for a long time
- They were already having a food shortage in 2019
- China's disastrous air safety record
- The Wenchuan Quake cover-up
- Why I'm not the slightest bit worried about China's DF-41 (if they even have it)
The world is waking up to China
- China is making more enemies than they can handle
- The Party is actually trying to make the world hate China, and here's why
- The Hong Kong protests have galvanized Taiwan
- The Pacific Islands Forum told China to kick rocks in 2018
- And ASEAN followed suit
- China's humiliation at Apec 2019
- After his defeat at APEC, Xi prepared for a showdown in Buenos Aires
- The 2019 BRI Summit humiliated China in their own capital city
- It was China that started a "New Cold War," and they did it in 1991
- The "Quad-Alliance"
Regarding Tibet
- Contrary to China's propaganda, the Tang Dynasty did NOT conquer Tibet
- China's claim of sovereignty over Tibet based on the Yuan Dynasty is equally idiotic
- China's claim of Ming sovereignty is perhaps the thinnest of all
American Politics
- Henry Kissinger is a stain on America's record
- The Trump/Putin summit in Helsinki
- The 2018 "mail bomb" hoax the Democrats hoped people would fall for
- The 2020 rioters in America don't have a damned clue what they're protesting about
- The American Left's actions after their January 2021 coup are a mirror image of the “Culture Revolution” in China
World Politics
Japan's Resurgence
North Korea
- China's threats to North Korea in the weeks leading up to the Singapore Summit
- The Trump/Kim summit: what was accomplished and what was not
- China's media panic after the Singapore Trump/Kim summit
Other
- The end of the US-Pakistan alliance was a trap for China
- Rodi Duterte, the Tsina Makipili ng Malacanang
Personal Journal
When a Chinese school administrator told me "let them fail; they don't matter"
One of my students (Maizy Zhao) shows she's cleverer than her countrymen
Learning the hard way that in China, proving your innocence is a crime
A teller at a Chinese bank tried to steal my passport; and the cops didn't help
Gofundme page setup for my children in the Philippines amid the Chinavirus-19 crisis
Final reflections (and closure) on my nightmarish time in Beijing
Reflecting on 9/11, in the wake of the Chinavirus-19 crisis: What if it happened today?
Rewriting Chely Wright's “Shut Up and Drive:” the end of the last dream of 2020
Moving to Ukraine (and getting back to the front lines of the war against China's propaganda)
I tried to get my belongings shipped out of China, and Chinese incompetence made it a nightmare