Asia

Israel Passes Thoughtcrime Law Banning Doubts Over Official Narrative Of October 7th Attack

The political reverberations of Israel's ceasefire agreement with Hamas continue to erode the foundation the Netanyahu government strengthened itself upon across the 15-month war....

Worshiping Authority Leads to Tyranny: Five Lessons from North Korea

MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace wants the world to know she’s “a Fauci groupie.” She describes herself as a virtuous devotee: “I’m thrice-vaccinated, mask adherent. I buy...

The Experts’ “Zero Covid” Plan Was a Total Failure

The Chinese regime is doubling down on its “zero covid” strategy. In recent weeks, new covid cases have been detected in several cities. In...

Lessons from the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603 – 1868

Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate is best remembered outside Japan as a 265-year period of isolation and stagnation, though that assessment is superficial and unfair, or at...

Japanization: 30 Years of Failed Economic “Stimulus”

In Europe, the danger of “Japanization”—a long-lasting economic stagnation accompanied by expansionary monetary and fiscal policies (Schnabl 2015)—is now discussed more intensively, as the...

Why Beijing Wants a Digital Yuan

In his 2011 book On Russia, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger used the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, or Go, as it is also commonly known, as an...