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Looking at Corruption: China vs. the United States
During National Library Week a few years ago, I attended the Golden Leaves event at Cal Poly Pomona’s University Library. Afterwards, I joined a conversation about China, and one American citizen who...
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The Republic that Wasn’t
Taiwan was a republic in name only until its first open democratic election in 1996; Chiang Kai-shek [1887 - 1975], the president-for-life that the United States supported, was a brutal dictator and a...
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One Bogus, Erotic Offer
During World War II, The Japanese murdered millions of Chinese civilians and forced Chinese and Korean women to become sex slaves for the Japanese military. A good book on this topic is The Rape of...
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The History that Drove Mao’s Decisions as China’s Leader: Part 1 of 2
Why did Mao cause so much suffering with his failed Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution? Yes, many of us have heard that power corrupts and no country is without its examples. And, for...
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The History that Drove Mao’s Decisions as China’s Leader: Part 2 of 2
Imagine how Americans would have felt if China had deployed several of its army divisions in the United States to protect the Chinese living in America after the racist and discriminatory Chinese...
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The influence of Complex PTSD on Mao as China’s Leader: Part 1 of 2
Who was Mao? Was he the demon the Western media often makes him out to be, or was he just a product of his environment? Mao has been judged by a Western value system that did not exist in China or the...
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The influence of Complex PTSD on Mao as China’s Leader: Part 2 of 2
Mao (born 1893) grew up during a period of madness in China. To learn more, I suggest reading The Roots of Madness, which shows that world. Then the Chinese Civil War lasted from 1926 to 1949 with a...
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China’s Authoritarian Cyber Crackdown versus America’s Democratic Culture of...
Although I think it is impossible to totally control bullies in any culture, ABC News reports that China’s “government has declared victory in cleaning up what it considers rumors, negativity and...
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Leading China using Deductive Reasoning
It’s called deductive reasoning or forensics, a science used in China almost 1,000 years ago to solve crimes. The first written record of forensic science can be traced back to ancient China in a book...
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Ai WeiWei is probably NEVER SORRY for anything he says or does: Part 1 of 2
My wife bought a DVD of Ai Weiwei NEVER SORRY, a documentary film by Allison Klayman that was well done but obviously produced with the intent to portray Ai Weiwei as a hero and Communist China as...
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Ai WeiWei is probably NEVER SORRY for anything he says or does: Part 2 of 2
Ai Weiwei also infers that it wasn’t the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed 5,335 children (Weiwei’s number because there has been no official death count of how many children died) but corruption in...
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Let’s take a close look at how many deadbeats there are in the United States...
If you live in China and you think the streets in America are paved in gold, take a close look at how many deadbeats there are in the United States living off welfare, and you might be surprised who...
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Infamous Angel Island—the Ellis Island of America’s West Coast
There is a poem on the Statue of Liberty that ends with “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the...
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China’s Long History with Burma/Myanmar: Part 1 of 3
The Economist (September 9, 2010) published a critical piece about China’s relationship with Myanmar: Welcome, Neighbor – China hosts another tinpot dictator from next door. “Tinpot dictator” are the...
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China’s Long History with Burma/Myanmar: Part 2 of 3
What does the Beijing based unnamed critic writing for The Economist expect—that China adopt America’s evangelical, neo-conservative/neo-liberal role to spread “democracy” and “Christianity” to the...
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China’s Long History with Burma/Myanmar: Part 3 of 3
Enough said about The Economist, Christianity and differences between dictatorships, democracies and republics, and back to the long history between China and Burma/Myanmar, which started during the...
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The link between the politics behind the Nobel Peace Prize and the so-called...
First, according to the Democracy Index, in 2012, there were only 25 full democracies in the world while there were 51 authoritarian regimes. There were also 54 flawed democracies and 37 hybrid...
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Chiang Kai-shek, an American ally and a Brutal Dictator
Anyone in the United States who reads and/or listens to the news has probably heard of Mao’s brutality and the alleged brutality of the Chinese Communist Party, but what about Chiang Kai-shek and his...
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If China government isn’t a Monarchy or a Dictatorship, what is it? Part 1 of 4
Three times George Washington acted in a way that would insure the newly born US Republic would survive. His first act was in 1782, when Colonel Lewis Nicola wrote a letter to Washington suggesting...
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If China government isn’t a Monarchy or a Dictatorship, what is it? Part 3 of 4
Before we move on, let’s take a brief look at the Athenian democracy that was developed around the 5th century B.C. in the Greek city-state of Athens. Even though there is evidence that democratic...
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