I came across this fascinating article written by a GI in the closing days of the US military's prescence on Taiwan via a link from the...

Hua Guofeng, the man who succeeded Mao Zedong as leader of China, carrying on the policies of 'the great helmsman', died today at th...

If, as appears likely in light of today's news , Russia recognises Abkhazia as an independent nation - will the Chinese recognise it as ...

I read an interesting opinion piece in the Washington post written by Anne Applebaum yesterday, money quote: For the best possible illustra...

A friend of mine sent me (and the rest of my former colleagues) an email saying this: . . . you guys are all effectively going to be blocked...

This post had me chuckling: Then, at 6.15am, before anything had even happened, we were handed a press release (distributed by the Propagan...

Check out this video of Navy Day celebrations in the Ukraine-owned Russian-controlled port of Sevastopol . As someone who has always loved t...

That's right, the FOARP has now officially declared war on the nation of Italy. For years they have been oppressing me with their beauti...

I have just discovered the history lectures of Yuan Tengfei (袁腾飞), history's most 'badassed' history teacher (h/t to Tang Buxi o...

It looks like envelope-pushing expat mag par excellence The eXile has finally been shut down by the Russian government as a result of an ...

Whoever made this video explaining how the US caused the Sichuan earthquake by manipulating the ionosphere using the High Frequency Active ...

A very interesting piece on the death of liberal interventionism from the Acumulating Periferals Blog . Money Quote: These kinds of interven...

7.8 on the Richter scale, an incredibly powerful earthquake, luckily China is perhaps better prepared than other nations of similar size and...

A fascinating look into the translation process that foreign books undergo from Paper Republic . Here's a snippet from an interview with...