One easy way to understand, at most “anticipate, but at least be unsurprised by developments in Korea and China is the “PDT Symphony Mad Asian Scientist Theorem”. This “Mad Scientist” theorem is not fact and likely untrue, but if applied,… Read More ›

Month: April 2018
World politics after the US ban on selling chips to ZTE
China would return to 2G telecom if there were a total ban of selling chips by the Western countries to this developing country, according to an analyst in Hong Kong, because China’s self-developed attainments in this sector still lag behind… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, April 23, 2018
The US is arming East Asia and disarming North Korea. China is a spectator in the Western game. Reports and gossip about the latest North Korean promise to disarm ensnared many in the media. The South Korean Kumbaya singing President… Read More ›
Businesses don’t like it, but the Australian government is dead right about China
Business and China Lobbyists can jump up and down, but the government has handled the aggressive and brutal Chinese dictatorship well. The China Lobby has various groupings, and a strictly accurate China Lobby Watch should note which wing is behind… Read More ›
Why can the 3:1 ratio of China/US Investing in Renewable Energy be worrisome?
The title of this Apr 9 Quartz article — “For every $1 the US put into adding renewable energy last year, China put in $3” — draws our attention to the tip of an iceberg about the competition for leading… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, April 16, 2018
The war with China is becoming the war with Russia and China, it’s economic, it’s culminating, and Britain is double-involved. Since the strike on Syria, Russia is angry and thumping the drums. They promised retaliation before. After, they really promised… Read More ›
China again threatening to invade Philippines island of Pagasa
It appears that China, emboldened by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s kowtowing to China, is once again planning to invade the Philippines island of Pagasa. China’s plans to invade Pagasa, known as Zhongye by the Chinese, were first revealed in a… Read More ›
The coming China-Korea Reintegration
Trump confirmed personally that he would be meeting Kim Jong-un in May or early June. As I have said many times in the past three years, the United States has “no other choice but talk”. Therefore, it was Pyongyang to… Read More ›
Cadence of Conflict: Asia, April 9, 2018
China has been a source of great change. Taiwan has received a license from the United States to build its own submarines. Wang, a legislature who sits on the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee said that friendliness from the… Read More ›
China to build Kra Canal across Thailand to bypass Malacca Strait
According to The Diplomat’s article “Thailand’s Kra Canal: China’s Way Around the Malacca Strait” on April 6, the 200-year-old dream about the canal might finally become a reality under China’s Belt and Road. The article says, “Most recently, the Thai-Chinese… Read More ›
Is China really out to rule the world? The Greentown ‘Ruling Class’
Is China educating an elite class of students with the plan of seeding them into positions of power in Western democracies? In his book Silent Invasion, Professor Clive Hamilton talks about a meeting in 2004 where Chinese Communist Party Secretary Hu… Read More ›
Sea trial of China’s first homegrown aircraft carrier
SCMP says in its report “China’s first home-grown aircraft carrier set to carry out maiden sea trial” on Sunday that, according to anonymous Chinese naval sources, China’s first homegrown Type 001A aircraft carrier will conduct its maiden sea voyage in… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, April 2, 2018
China and the US have fixed their rudders on a ramming course. The only remaining question will be over whose hull is stronger. The “yuge” US trade deficit with China is purported to be $375B USD. Bloomberg was sure to… Read More ›