Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

The Russians are pushing Biden in Ukraine.

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Chinese lawmakers plan to put fewer than 10 people – all chosen by national security officials – on a committee to vet any candidates for top elected positions in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reported. The report said vetting committee members would be chosen by Beijing’s National Security Office …

Continue reading “China’s anschluss”

New at the Belmont Club. How does the progressive project advance against China?

Washington mandates and China supplies.

New at the Belmont Club. Frozen evil loosed upon a sensitive, Woke world. It looks funny but it has a power long forgotten.

Is climate change anxiety codespeak for ‘white fragility’ asks the Scientific American.

Stealth destroyer gets turned into a floating command node. Unmanned vehicle doctrine is being tested by the fleet. PACFLEET Preparing for 2021 Unmanned Fleet Battle Problem.

Progressive intellectuals explain how they could not see monsters in their own ranks because they were blinded by Donald Trump. The dazzle of Trump made them mistake Cuomo for a feminist hero.

Biden’s foreign and domestic policy appears to consist largely of virtue signaling. Whether about the border with Mexico, Covid, murders in Georgia, Putin, Uighurs, Burma the signal contains a large measure of Wokeness. The question is whether the policy is all virtue signaling or whether there is something solid behind the appearance.

New at the Belmont Club. Clutching at reality. How epistemology became a modern political crisis.

“Now it’s the Left’s turn.” The radical Democrats make a play for power. Inevitably Biden will be the next target. Can a nonentity who was once Obama’s creature resist?

Hell is a place where nothing exists that we cannot conceive. It is a totally sterile place with no surprises and in Shannon’s sense no additional information. Safety is where we know all the outcomes and nothing unexpected happens. And nothing unexpected happens.

The scales fell from his eyes while tormented in Iranian prison

File under “barn door” and “horse”. Better luck next time.

Beijing plans to press Washington to reverse many of the policies targeting China introduced during the Trump presidency in the first face-to-face meeting of senior U.S. and China officials since President Biden’s election, according to people with knowledge of the plans. WSJ

Denunciations don’t convey much status information about who’s in virtue but about who’s in and who’s out. New at the Belmont Club.

Arson attacks on Sunday against 32 Chinese-invested factories in Hlaingthaya prompted China’s strongest comments yet on the turmoil gripping its neighbour, where many people see Beijing as supportive of the coup. China’s Global Times newspaper said “vicious attacks” caused damage worth $37 million and injuries to two Chinese employees. Its embassy urged Myanmar’s generals to …

Continue reading “Chinese targeted in Burma”

New at the Belmont Club. Safetyism vs statism. Suppose the future is China, I kid you not Sherlock.

Well if they say so.

Why is vaccine skepticism highest among health care workers? DW investigates why COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for health care and front-line workers, despite clear scientific evidence the vaccines are safe and effective DW