A practical desire to create a separate space/balance out the United States might end up being more effective to create change in China than Western soft power.

When interpreting and book world collide. Now to be the one sitting…

I’m in the photo. National Book Festival 2024 photo on the Library of Congress homepage.

Here’s a fun one. 99% of fireworks come from China.

Not that Americans won’t figure it out in a year—or maybe not..

But that the current U.S. administration, in being so nativist, is actually doing a great job teaching us how

important the rest of the world is to Americans.

Here at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library/Archives nailing down a few citations for the upcoming book! 📕

An editor passed the word “splash” and “Gulf of Mexico” in the same heading!

I love the word “splash” in the context of geopolitics. I sneak it in most articles. And without fail the editor finds and strikes all of them.

A colleague just shared this photo of the French ambassador’s lady liberty statue dressed in Ukraine’s flag.

It comes from the name of the Northern Song Capital but then changed slightly into a rare surname.

I was given it by a Chinese professor and there’s been a couple of funny stories since.

A descent amount of people know me by the name, and I didn’t mind the historical origins of it, so it stuck.

Oh. I got a picture this time around. It’s on the DC side of Western Ave on the way to Wisconsin.

Since I posted about pagers, want to balance out with a post about the loss of life of, hopefully, unintended targets.