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Bureaucratic inertia and geopolitical distraction

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Lost Decade is a bureaucratic take on American policy’ slow  pivot  to the east and to Asia-cnetric geopolitics and its implications for America’s present and future. Across the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that Asia should stand at the center of US foreign policy. But this worldview, first represented in the Obama Administration’s 2011 “Pivot to Asia, marks a dramatic departure from the entire history of American grand strategy. Both trump and Biden continued in a similar vein to little effect. In the upcoming US election, both likely candidates President Joe Biden and ex-president Donald Trump more or less … Continue reading Bureaucratic inertia and geopolitical distraction

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TikTok lawsuit to block a US Law rising free speech concerns

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As tensions rise between the world’s two biggest economies, the Department of Commerce confirmed it had revoked permissions that had allowed US companies to export certain goods to Chinese technology giant Huawei. The US exports computer chips to Huawei starting in 2019, citing ties to the Chinese military. TikTok has filed a lawsuit to block a US law that would ban the video app in the US unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, calling the act an “ extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights” of the company and its 170 million American users and followers. They asked … Continue reading TikTok lawsuit to block a US Law rising free speech concerns

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Good old Theme

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Beom Jun, Jeah Hyuck & Tong Wu “A refreshing new take on an old theme – essentially the battle betweengood and not so good – ie bad! Not be be missed.” Tong Wu at The J/M Gallery 230 Portobello Road London W11 1LJ (alsofeaturing Beom Jun and Jeah Hyuck) until Tuesday 19 March. Close to NottingHill Gate and Ladbroke Grove tubes and a number of bus routes.Freelance reporter Tabish Kahn interviewed Tong Wu at the venue onSaturday evening March 16 and it was later revealed that Tong achieved aDistinction in his Masters having studied at UAL based in Camberwell.Tong Wu … Continue reading Good old Theme

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Power of Xi

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Xi Jinping, Beijing’s authoritatian leader, and Ho Jintao, his predecessor, made a debate in front of world’s television cameras  in a 2022-rated as commercial box office.  Xi and Hu sitting before massed ranks deputies at the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a convention which is held once in five years. Xi used the Congress to secure a third term as head of the party, at distinction that effectively meant he was set up to become China’s leader for life. Hu reached to take a red folder in front of him. Xi signalled an orderly who grabbed Hu under … Continue reading Power of Xi

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How British Empire was propped up for financial survival

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Sir John Henry Rivett-Carnac wrote about his company house in his memoirs “ a quite magnificent house on the Ganges at Ghazipur, surrounded by a good garden and fine grounds”. The incentives of this job was the Benares Opium Agency that Sir John headed from 1876. When the poppy  growing season got under way in November, Sir John would embark on a grand regional tour, interspersing inspections of opium farms with shooting expeditions and visits to colourful bazars, despite the poor Indian farmers under his watch, who fed Gizarpur’s opium processing factory who were coerced into cultivating the crop to … Continue reading How British Empire was propped up for financial survival