GREAT ZEN MASTER Thich Nhat Hanh has just passed away at the age of 95. The news media is summing him up as “the father of mindfulness”, a spiritual exercise widely adopted in the secular world. But in Asia, and to those of us with long memories, he was much more than that.
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The widely reported narrative that Beijing tried to impose a law to snatch dissidents from Hong Kong in 2019 was never true
Peaceful demonstrators quickly fled the protests as they realized something dark, violent, and well-organized lay just below the surface
The media simply relayed stories and numbers they were given by one side,…
MEDIA CREDIBILITY IS dying at high speed—and trust in liberal governments is following in tandem, according to a new major global survey.
Half of all respondents now view governments and media as “divisive forces in society”, said the huge study, which collected data from 36,000 respondents in 28 countries.
But public confidence in executive-led governments…
UK RIGHTWINGERS WANT to generate thirty million new British babies to stop any forthcoming global leadership by Chinese people—and convert British seaside towns into “new Hong Kongs” to house them.
The British campaigners are joining a US campaign to “breed” their way into maintaining Western dominance on the planet. “Save the West,” said Tom Harwood,…
A YOUNG BRITISH filmmaker in China is being celebrated today after playing a spectacular trick on the anti-China lobby.
Curt McArdle, 27, is one of many people who have been labelled “wumao” (meaning “paid propaganda agent”) for daring to have said something positive about China: considered a terrible crime in much of today’s social media/…
OMICRON IS AIRBORNE now, forcing scientists in one of the world’s most Covid-proof cities to scramble for new measures.
Hong Kong has banned all flights from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France and the Philippines until February 4.
Lunar New Year Fairs are all cancelled—a major sacrifice in a community for which the annual…
Too many news outlets, large and small, are portraying China as Nazi Germany. This report can read below or viewed as a video.
A New York Times writer today said Chinese efforts to fight Covid in Xi’an were reminiscent of the spirit of evil that led to the Holocaust.
Seriously? Yes.
From the…
ALL PRIMARY SCHOOLS and kindergartens in Hong Kong will close from Friday onwards in a bid to stop a widespread outbreak. This follows the discovery of five local cases.
This contrasts dramatically with responses elsewhere. In New York there are 30,000 cases and 37 deaths every day: and schools are staying open.
The…
HYBRID WAR SPECIALISTS working in Kakakhstan say they studied the violent 2019 Hong Kong “revolution” attempt. Then they gathered experienced activists from the 2014 Ukraine revolution and flew to Almaty in Kazakhstan to prepare for the current mayhem in that country.
We “studied the experience of protests in Hong Kong and other countries,” said Dzmitry…
In part one of this three-part work, we showed how the Chinese were demonized as Nazi-like villains who were a global threat.
In part two, we showed how flimsy evidence was blown up to create the impression of “concentration camps” where “genocide” was taking place.
In part three below, we look at the…