Contra Trump 禁言 A picture is worth a thousand words. The Chinese rubric of this chapter in Contra Trump is 禁言 jìn yán, ‘to muzzle speech’. This has also long been characteristic of Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, 習近平無奈之帝國: see, for example, The Heart of The One Grows Ever More Arrogant and Proud 獨夫之心 日益驕固 — Geremie R.… Read

Contra Trump 違憲惡法 On 17 September 2025, America’s annual Constitution Day, it just so happened that America’s roi manqué, the 47th President of the United States, was wined and dined by King Charles III, the descendant of the British sovereign who had been unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent American independence and, by association, the promulgation of the American Constitution.… Read

Contra Trump 近朱者赤，近墨者黑   The title of this chapter in our series Contra Trump — ‘An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country’ — is a famous line attributed to Henry Wotton (1568-1639).… Read

Intersecting with Eternity A mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that are part of the unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection, Intersecting with Eternity is a companion to The Tower of Reading and an extension of The Other China section of China Heritage.… Read

This is the sixty-fifth chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

The Other China 當仁不讓 Perhaps the point of learning from the past is not so much to uncover a lost truth as to understand historical patterns that help us see through the lies of the present.… Read