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Go East Young Lawyer
An esteemed figure in advancing rule of law in East Asia, Jerome Cohen goes about his life story more in the form of an extraordinarily long dinner…
Apr 9
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Chris Taylor
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March 2025
Kafka at the Gates of Dawn
A collection of essays by sinologist Perry Link is a could-be autobiography, but thankfully it tells us far more about the bizarre cultural evolution of…
Mar 9
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February 2025
Saint Jim
The rags-to-riches – and then to-jail – tale of how Jimmy Lai became a billionaire before accepting God and a CCP jail cell is a page-turner despite the…
Feb 27
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January 2025
Tangled up in red
Huawei, telecoms, the Party, and Mao-nostalgia 'cat tax'
Jan 27
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Chris Taylor
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Does Xi dream of communist sheep?
In the Orwellian world of 'Xi Jinping Thought,' the new Great Helmsman and the Party are one; can the Party ever replace him?
Jan 16
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Chris Taylor
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Does Xi dream of communist sheep?
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Hacks and other escalations
At the cutting edge of technological sophistication, 'China exceptionalists' are confronted by a modern nation state preparing for war
Jan 7
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Chris Taylor
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December 2024
Decline and fall
Taiwan legislative kingmaker and spotless 'white knight' slips in the mud of Taiwan politics
Dec 30, 2024
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Chris Taylor
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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
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May 2023
Hou not Gou
It's been a tight race and now the die has been cast for Hou You-yi; maintaining KMT party unity will now be the challenge ahead.
May 17, 2023
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The labs, the leaks – and the silence
A new book sheds light on a disturbing pattern of lab-associated infections that threaten humanity.
May 15, 2023
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Chris Taylor
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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
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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
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