The Other China
Liu Chan 劉蟾 is a Beijing-based writer and editor who uses couplets composed on a lapidary style to record the events of the day in a solemn calligraphic hand.
On 8 October, Liu noted news reports about the role of Kim the Third, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in supporting the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the surprise attack on Israel launched by Hamas on 7 October 2023. He concludes that:
In appeasing evil you invite even greater misfortune.
綏靖邪惡，必將為禍更甚矣。
It is an observation that had wider, albeit unstated, implications.
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For more work by Liu Chan in China Heritage, see The Other China.
— Geremie R. Barmé
Editor, China Heritage
8 October 2023
(Updated, 12.x.23)
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Related Material:
- Hamas Goes To War With Israel, Pod Save the World, 7 October 2023
- Antony Loewenstein, Interview on Israel, Hamas and troubling media framing, ABC News Australia, 9 October 2023
- Jordan Schneider, China Wishes Away Hamas Terrorism, ChinaTalk, 10 October 2023
- Philip Gourevitch, An Honest Voice in Israel, The New Yorker, 3 August 2014
- Tony Judt, Israel Without Clichés, The New York Times, 10 June 2010
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願惡魔得懲，逝者安息，被俘者平安。
2023.1009日记
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‘The good news is there is light at the end of the tunnel. The bad news is there is no tunnel.’
— Shimon Peres
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