China’s Dispute With Taiwan Is Playing Out Near This Frontline Island
A small island controlled by Taiwan a few miles off China’s coast lived for decades in constant readiness for war. At one point in 1958, troops there hunkered in bunkers…
China’s Plan to Spur Growth: A New Slogan for Building Factories
From the top of the government, China is heavily promoting a plan to fix the country’s stagnant economy and offset the harm from a decades-long housing bubble. The program has…
‘Cherry on the Cake’: How China Views the U.S. Crackdown on TikTok
Dan Wang has been a leading observer of contemporary China for years. As a tech analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a research firm, and through his well-read newsletter, Wang has charted…
Opinion | The Real Royal Scandal Is on Us
Americans have always loved a royal scandal, even a smidgen more than British royalists do themselves. Some of this is easily attributable to our inborn desire for no more kings.…
Russia’s Battle With Extremists Has Simmered for Years
In the past few months, deep in the forbidding deserts of central Syria, Russian forces have quietly joined the Syrian military in intensifying attacks against Islamic State strongholds, including bombing…
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full
The iron lung uses a negative pressure system. Powered by a motor, its bellows suck air out of the cylinder, creating a vacuum around the patient’s body and forcing the…
Links 3/24/2024 | naked capitalism
Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms NBC Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join parade of insiders selling tech stocks FT Climate Are we all doomed?…
The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260–1368 | naked capitalism
By Hanhui Guan, Associate Professor at Peking University, Nuno Palma, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and Director of The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development at University…
Opinion | What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions. First, after the attacks of Oct. 7, Israel has the…
A Lunar Eclipse Warms Up the Moon for April’s Solar Eclipse
As the moon prepares to blot out the surface of our sun in two weeks, it’s warming up with a penumbral lunar eclipse on Sunday night or Monday morning, depending…