From the guy who taught us why empire was a good thing (during the invasion of Iraq, if I remember correctly), comes this bit of insipid nonsense about the G20 meeting and the need for international cooperation:
More than anything else, it has been China's strategy of dollar reserve accumulation that has financed America's debt […]

Dan goes after Newsweek for labeling all of us in the PRC stress cases:
But when one out of 1.3 billion Chinese loses it and commits murder, there are apparently all sorts of things we can and should extrapolate. In "Murder at the Drum Tower," Newsweek uses the knifing of the Minnesota couple inside Beijing's […]

Twenty Immigration Department officers will join an eight-day Hong Kong Disciplined Services National Affairs Study Programme in Shanghai from November 11 to 18.

Independent Commission Against Corruption Commissioner Timothy Tong has expressed his sadness at the death of ICAC Principal Investigator Alan Wu, who died today in a Tai Po traffic accident.

Two Mexican restaurant chefs have been jailed six months by Eastern Magistracy for accepting bribes from a frozen food supplier.

Look out past this week’s headlines.  Forget the statistics and details for a moment.  What are the Big Trends that we’ll all be living with for the next 10 – 15 years.  Stop fretting about the next 18 months – look at what could happen.
 
A Smaller, Smarter USA
The US takes its lumps.  Obama champions a […]

Here's an interesting op-ed piece by Jerome Cohen on developing civil liberties problems in Taiwan, posted here with the author's permission.

Chinese authorities may be rethinking their willingness to allow the courts to serve as forums for challenges to existing Party and government controls. Over the last year, Chinese authorities have launched the “Three Supremes” campaign, re-emphasizing Party control as a…