2023 - 3rd Quarter
Taiwan and the New “Great Game”
When Rudyard Kipling wrote the novel Kim in 1901, he popularized British intelligence officer Arthur Conolly’s earlier phrase, “the Great Game.” ...
The Surprising Greek Roots of Taiwan
The concept of an empire is not foreign to Western minds. The Greeks will easily point back to the empire, which Alexander the Great forged (333-323 BCE); it stretched from the Aegean to India and ironically even included their age-old foe Persia. ...
What Happened in Hong Kong?
For those who frequently visited Hong Kong in the mid-1990s and were present at the “handover” on July 1, 1997, it is sad to watch the continued deterioration of Hong Kong’s freedoms and false “promise of full democracy.” ...
A Retrospective: Kent State vs.Tiananmen Square
This past May brought the anniversary of the tragic 1970 shooting at Kent State University in Ohio. And June heralded the anniversary of a 2nd tragic shooting, that of the students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. ...