We know there won’t be any foreign, Xinjiang or Tibetan tourists in Beijing during the Olympics. But that (or at least the first part of that) might not be such a bad thing. Aside from that inconvenient fact, what if these Games basically go off perfectly? It seems entirely possible, depending on your definition of [...]
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A couple of months back I speculated on whom each party might choose as the vice president. And now, with the Democratic race finally over, it is time to take another look.
Starting on the GOP side, there are a few people that are thought to be on the short list. I rank them here in [...]
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If US Presidential candidates were running in China, what would their slogans be?
Edwards: There are two Chinas. (This one is courtesy of Stan at China Hearsay.)
Rudy: Noun. Verb. 改革开放。
Hillary: You want guanxi? I got guanxi.
Obama: Imagine the possibilities: China’s first black president.
McCain: Straight talk: Japan is great.
Romney: Japan is the devil. Yao Ming is super. [...]
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not-so-privately been floating the idea of running for president as an independent. With the two races still fairly muddled, I thought it might be interesting to look at the circumstances that might facilitate him jumping in.
The first condition would seem to require at least one candidate with fairly high [...]
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Isn’t it a little strange that people are essentially writing Rudy off because he has not won in the first three states, even though they always knew that he wouldn’t win early? In fact, it seems like his strategy is more or less playing out as planned, other than the fact that Ron Paul keeps [...]
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For the last six weeks the Chinese internets has been a bit spotty, at least everywhere I’ve used it. It seems like a lot of sites are getting the “BBC” treatment. This means you can connect to the front page, but none of the links actually work. I’ve been using the proxy server Anonymouse, which [...]
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