We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is 《Some people still aren’t anyway. Stats for Brexit are similar. But these reports continue to ignore non-voters.》

Report says that China’s social credit system doesn’t just target Chinese citizens but also ethnic Chinese non-citizens, and foreign companies as well.

The World Bank Was Warned About Funding Repression in Xinjiang

In a Major Shift, South Korea Defies Its Alliance With Japan “it’s all rooted in Japanese war crimes, papered over by a 1965 treaty in which Washington played a hidden hand”

Kashmir is the Test Bed for a New Model of Internal Colonialism (by Partha Chatterjee)

Oil Lobbyist Touts Success of Criminalizing Pipeline Protests

The Quiet Desperation of Refugees in Japan “In 2018, Japan accepted only 42 out of a total of 10,493 refugee applications.”

China’s belt and road cargo to Europe under scrutiny as operator admits to moving empty containers

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

Charles Sanders Peirce was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician and scientist. His polymathic work should be better known

Boots Riley Calls Out Tarantino for Manson Family Depiction

Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

More Native American appropriation in Matsu. Animated film was a mix of Pocahontas and Pirates of the Caribbean & for some reason had Hebrew text on the screen… (Maybe saved $ by buying stock footage from an Israeli Co.?)

Main islands of Matsu, viewed from Mt. Yuntai

鐵血 反共抗俄 殺朱拔毛 (取豬隻宰殺程序的「殺豬拔毛」之諧音,其中「朱」指朱德,「毛」則指毛澤東。)

CCK room in an underground bunker

Why Taiwan? There is absolutely no good reason to do this and a million reasons not to…

Secret underground hideout for military boats that was never used.

Thousands of Hong Kong accountants join protest march – despite pleas from employers and promise of free lunches

Locals I spoke to weren’t happy about the new bridge to Daqiu. I doubt the island will feel so magical after it’s built.

Stairway to Heaven

Yummy leaves

Sika deer have taken over this abandoned military village

Gregory Bateson changed the way we think about changing ourselves

Talking fish