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Anyone even peripherally connected to Hong Kong in the last quarter of the 20th century was acutely aware of the use-by date: July 1, 1997. On that day, the British lease on the 86% of the Crown Colony known as the New Territories would conclude, and the sun would set on the British Empire in Asia.
The tabloids called it The Great Chinese Take-Away, or The Hangover....
One in five stars similar to our sun have planets in the inhabitable goldilocks zone we occupy. There are two hundred billion stars in our Milky Way alone, which means forty billion candidates for life somewhere … out there. The closest is 4.2 light years away (25 trillion miles), over thataway by Proxima Centauri.
Which makes it all the more puzzling whe...
My first trip to China was in the Summer of 1981, at the end of a year of studying Chinese in Taiwan. Sister Allison and her fiancé announced they would marry in March, and so I used the second half of my roundtrip air ticket to attend their wedding. This was earlier than I intended to return, but didn’t want to be the only one in my extended family to miss the celebration.
The National People’s Congress is rather slow to complete the purge of the senior officer corps …
August 29, 2026: The legislature voted to remove Zhang Youxia as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People’s Republic of China and Liu Zhenli as a member of the CMC.
Hints to Xi Jinping’s grasp of reform era Chinese politics arise in Zhu Rongji’s obit:
“Under the firm leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Jiang Zemin at the core, Zhu spearheaded reform of the fiscal and taxation systems, carrying out a major overhaul of the tax regime centered on fairer tax burdens and a simplified tax system.” “After retiring from leade...