My New Life in Asia

• The GOP "Anglo-Saxon" Caucus And The 1898 White Supremacist Coup In North Carolina 3 years ago United States Capitol (image by kmccoy via Wikimedia Commons)On April 16 media reported that a group of far-right House Republicans, including Qanon conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene, were organizing the launch of an "America First Caucus". A seven-page manifesto, first made public by...
• Why the Biden Administration Should Boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics 3 years ago Beijing National Stadium (by Peter23 via Wikimedia Commons)On April 6 the US State Department denied that it was considering a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over the Chinese government's human rights abuses, including in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet."Our position on the 2022...
• How Dictatorial Regimes Use Money To Infiltrate The Media in Democratic Countries 3 years ago United States Capitol (Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0)During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought to undermine the United States and its allies through a variety of active measures aimed at influencing and manipulating public opinion. Although the Cold War - understood in the narrow...
• It's time for the West to restrict trade with China and sanction the Chinese Communist leadership 5 years ago National People's Congress, 2013 (photo by Dong Fang via Wikimedia Commons)On March 9, 2000, US President Bill Clinton gave a speech on US-China trade relations in which he advocated for the expansion of trade between the two countries and defended his administration's decision to push for China's...
• China releases anti-Uighur propaganda film "Black Hand" 5 years ago Mosque in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, as photographed in 2008 (photo by jun jin luo via Wikimedia Commons) The People's Republic of China (PRC) has released a propaganda video titled "The black hand — ETIM and terrorism in Xinjiang", in an attempt to shape the narrative surrounding its...

• Top 9 Cultural Differences Between Italy and Taiwan Expat Blog Awards 2013 It is always difficult to talk about cultural differences. Especially when one compares two countries like Italy and Taiwan, which not only are themselves very diverse and complex, but which have culturally and historically barely anything in common...

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