Archive - ChinaDiction

December 2024

Decline and fall

Taiwan legislative kingmaker and spotless 'white knight' slips in the mud of Taiwan politics

Dec 30, 2024 •

June 2023

China's Other Voices

Wu'er Kaixi (Uerkesh Davlet), student leader of the protests in 1989, today Secretary General of the Taiwan Parliamentary Human Rights Commission calls…

Jun 4, 2023 •

May 2023

March 2023

Update ... China Diction #87

Sorry for the interruption in services, but Substack has made it impossible for me to post full newsletters for the moment ...

Mar 30, 2023 •

All at sea ChinaDiction #86

Less a case of nobody watching than China just downright getting away with it in the South China Sea.

Mar 15, 2023 •

It's official ChinaDiction #85

The National People's Congress has reelected Xi Jinping as PRC president for a third five-year term – unanimously (2952-0).

Mar 10, 2023 •

Shades of grey ChinaDiction #84

Nobody's ever accused Chinese politics of being lively, or fun, but why do so many of us take it seriously?

Mar 6, 2023 •

A non-China Story ChinaDiction #83

The lab leak theory is back and we should pause and reflect, if Covid-19 spilled from a lab, is that China's fault?

Mar 3, 2023 •

February 2023

12 points ChinaDiction #82

But, in a nutshell, 1 point: We're with Russia

Feb 27, 2023 •

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