China’s Next Cold Warriors?The North Atlantic Treaty Organization made a lot of sense when it was an alliance of North Atlantic nations to mutually defend the security of North Atlantic nations.   Notice the emphasis on “North Atlantic”?With …

China’s Next Cold Warriors? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization made a lot of sense when it was an alliance of North Atlantic nations to mutually defend the security of North Atlantic nations.   Notice the emphasis on “North A…

 A short vid of the drive through Tiannemen Square Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario

Some pics… I’ll post more later this weekend after some sight-seeing. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario

Day 2 – sleep, or a lack thereof… The amazing thing about sleep pattern shifting is that you can achieve an almost altered state of reality without having to resort to pharmaceuticals! This is especially noticeable during the first couple o…

Nice one, Harper.

The opposition is demanding to know what steps have been taken to
address security concerns over foreign companies operating in Canada’s
telecommunications industry, in the wake of a CBC News report about a
Chinese firm’s contra…

The Harper government has agreed to an establishment of a Telecommunications Company, Huawei, in Canada. Security experts in both Canada and the US are very concerned as China is known to spy through telecommunications. Both the US and Australia had re…

Day one. Well, that wasn’t so bad, really… yeah, it’s about 22 hours in travel mode door to door, but the flights were uneventful and I had a half-decent sleep last night. Melatonin rocks! After checking in and dropping our stuff off …

What is the relationship between money and happiness? A study of individual well-being in China suggests it’s limited.

To China… Bye all. Watch the shop while I’m gone. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario

And it’s back to the Middle Kingdom. True, the anticipation is not what it was the first time I traveled to China, but being that this is likely my last journey to those parts, there remains a noticeable sense of slight giddiness. In the meantime…

This is what police in Quebec are doing to striking students. I know that some people won’t like that I called this post “Canada’s Tiananmen Moments,” but by placing Quebec police brutality within a larger and even more di…

China has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country’s first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea.The rig, CNOOC 981, began drilling operations yesterday in disputed waters 320 km from Hong Kong.Accordin…

Drips relax and energize students ahead of exams: school

When DJ! wrote about Chen Guangcheng, he was largely unknown beyond fetus fetishists and China-watchers.

Now he’s the subject of some delicate negotiations between the US and China.

But is he really ‘pro-life’ as we in the blighted New Republic of…

This map says it all: The Tibetan plateau is key to controlling the headwaters of just about every major river in East and South Asia.   China controls Tibet, it controls most of the water that it and its neighbours depend upon. As written on…

This map says it all:The Tibetan plateau is key to controlling the headwaters of just about every major river in East and South Asia.   China controls Tibet, it controls most of the water that it and its neighbours depend upon.As written on t…

Children learn how to use computers and work around restrictions by experimentation and reading. So too must adults when they are confronted with restrictions. It’s a good idea to learn how to evade censorship before the flow of information is shut off, otherwise working around the problem becomes much more difficult because you must work [...]

Immigration applications have dropped by more than 50 per cent from key Asian countries since 2006 when Ottawa began changing its migran…

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U.S. coal companies are facing some tricky math these days. Production levels have remained more or less the same since 2005, according to the Energy Inform…