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Bearing the torch, fuelling the flames
This post examines the attitudes different countries have taken towards the protests in Tibet. David Miliband today announced that Free Tibet protesters will be allowed to demonstrate when the Olympic...
View ArticleIndian govt cowers in front of China
Shame on the Indian government. Its foreign minister has said that the Dalai Lama should not engage in any political activity that would damage its relationship with China. Not long ago the Indian govt...
View ArticleAbout those Olympic protests
Well done those Parisians, for having managed to extinguish that Olympic flame a few times. But I can’t help feel this is like the last gasp before the world learns to shut its mouth in front of China....
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Chinese arming Mugabe regime?
I expect further moral outrage over actions like this by the Chinese government. Of course it’s easy to be outraged by the actions of arming a brutal regime when it’s not us not profiting from the...
View ArticleGender bias kills tens of millions of girls
The Post, a Pakistani newspaper, highlights the number of females dead as a result of gender bias, particularly in Asia. It points out that Amartya Sen estimated that in India and China alone, there...
View ArticleReasons why China will be a superpower (pt 20345)
Angela Saini points out that: Physics World has reported that physics in China is booming. Chinese scientists now publish more papers than the UK and Germany. In fact, at the current rate, by 2012 it...
View ArticleBrendan O’ Neill, whitewashing the Chinese regime
Firstly there was the big dig against the Dalai Lama as a nasty man, then there was the view that the Chinese love their government – Da peepules loves tha guvverment.. LOLZ!!? Stop hatin’, U...
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Russia invades, China parades…
There’s a rather strange mixture of images today with the news that Russia has killed roughly 1200 civilians in their invasion of Georgia while China opened the Beijing Olympics. Europe and the US...
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The Chinese have arrived, eh?
Well… just in case you weren’t entirely aware of the economics of world trade, the Chinese government did a damn good job to tell the world they had arrived, through the Olympics opening and closing...
View ArticleSocialists giving themselves a bad name
Only about a week ago Andy Newman of the blog Socialist Unity was attacking me for criticising the Respect Party and apparently being racist because I called the party communalist. Then voltaire’s...
View ArticleIs female feticide declining in Asia?
For a long time China and South Asia were recording an increasing gap between male and female children, as a result of female feticide. Amartya Sen estimated that in China and India alone, there are 83...
View ArticleDefending China in Copenhagen and green tech generally
I got a bit annoyed with the ‘it’s all China’s fault‘ rhetoric that came out of the Copenhagen failure for various reasons. It turns out I wasn’t alone, and blogger Madam Miaow posted a message on CIF...
View ArticleGendercide dissected
The Economist this week carries an excellent and in-depth look at gendercide, the term coined to describe the impact that the deliberate attempt to favour male babies over female ones has had on the...
View ArticleHow China took advantage of the global recession
I suspect historians will look back one day at the global crash of 2008 and say what idiots western governments were at not having a bit of forward thinking on their minds. Throughout the crisis, the...
View ArticleChina’s Nobel bullying has failed
After the Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel peace prize, China reacted harshly. Mr Liu was jailed for eleven years, and his wife and other activists found themselves persecuted (and in...
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