We must continue to raise this issue with the whole party seriously and solemnly, and always be modest and prudent, and work hard so that our party will never deteriorate and our red country will never change its color. [read post]

  If Professor Chen represents Nietzsche's Apollonian voice, the current situation in Hong Kong has moved toward the culmination of its Dionysian phase (Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1910 English translation) ("In this sense the Dionysian man may be said to resemble Hamlet: both have for once seen into the true nature of things, —they have perceived, but they are loath to act; for their action cannot change the eternal nature of things; they regard it as shameful or… [read post]

That alone suggests the difficulty of engaging China respecting changes in its policy--to do that would be effectively to challenge not just the Chinese Communist Party Line from the outside but to suggest that either its normative or process legitimacy ought to be called into question.5. [read post]

That's down seven percent from the same month in 2008: period current year ago change 2008-10 826 959 -14% 2008-11 651 777 -16% 2008-12 839 921 -9% 2009-01 945 1200 -21% 2009-02 831 951 -13% 2009-03 954 1001 -5% 2009-04 886 980 -10% 2009-05 866 940 -8% 2009-06 927 920 1% 2009-07 840 908 -7% TOTAL 8565 9557 -10% Notes This data is taken from Massachusetts public records and was correct at the time of publishing. [read post]