Is self-determination a tool for liberation in today’s world?
Increasingly, self-determination is used as a rallying cry for separatist movements around the world, from Kosovo to Tibetan independence. Many separatist movements have leveraged symbols of European...
View Article(Letter from Arctosia, Opposing Viewpoint) Chinese Government publishes list...
For many Chinese website operators, 2009 didn’t start very well. China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre, a semi-government agency, has published a list of websites which contain “vulgar...
View ArticleOn the Mind-Numbing, Sensationalistic Use of Emotionally Charged Words in...
The recent tragedies in Gaza have reminded me again the mind-numbing role the sensationalistic use of emotionally charged words can play in international politics. Recently, Israel railed against the...
View ArticleWilliam Hooper: “The Scientific Development Concept”
According to William Hooper, Western lead Democracy has peaked. He believes the baton will be passed unto China, and a new Age of Enlightenment, one that is going to be improved upon with China’s...
View Article“information freedom” vs real information freedom
Remember Hillary Clinton recently preaching Internet “freedom” and “information freedom?” Have you just read my prior post where I examined a wrong mindset in the “West” thinking the rest of the world...
View ArticleEric X Li, Chinese pluralism vs. Western universality
As regular readers of this blog may know, we are fans of Eric X. Li. In this video below at the Aspen Institute, Anand Giridharadas (of NYT) interviewed him in front of a live audience. As Giridharadas...
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Announcement: 2012 Hidden Harmonies Essay Contest
We are excited to officially launch the 2012 Hidden Harmonies Essay Contest. In doing this, we hope to bring more awareness to the ‘Chinese’ perspective. The best 3 essays will be awarded prizes with...
View ArticleThe need for clarity
Unlike many of the bloggers here, I’m not a big fan of Eric X. Li’s writing and speeches from what I have so far seen and heard. I disagree with what he has said as they are either irrelevant,...
View ArticleShould China Consider Giving Snowden Asylum?
As Snowden considers asylum offers from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia, and perhaps mulls a second application to Russia (Putin had earlier said if Snowden wanted to apply asylum there, he’d have to...
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Are The American and Chinese Dreams That Different – You Can’t Tell From...
Yesterday, the U.S. marked the 50th anniversary of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” It was in that event 50 years ago that King gave his famous “I have a Dream” speech. By most...
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Case Study on Democratic Self-Governance: NSA Oversight, a Straight Game of...
If there is a religion in the modern world, it is the fanatic belief in democratic self-governance. From a philosophical perspective, the legitimacy of democratic self-government requires the notion...
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The Soft-power of Hong Kong Protesters – Freedoms not enjoy by American,...
Above Picture: Images of so-called “pro-democracy” protesters in Hong Kong ignored by the Western media In a recent international human rights forum at Oslo where Julian Assange, Edward Snowden,...
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The Humanitarian Crisis Spewing into Europe from the Middle East
The last week or two, we have seen a great humanitarian crisis building in Europe with waves and waves of refugees pouring into Europe from neighboring Middle Eastern countries … with many dying along...
View ArticleFreedom Does Not Include the Freedom to Loot, Vandalize, and Kill…
Wrote this piece for the SCMP. Some minor differences between version below and at SCMP because of space imitation and other minor editorial issues… On China’s Indignant Response to Morey’s Tweet and...
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Freedom from the Prying Eyes of the State
The Sydney Morning Herald published an Editorial Titled “Rare bipartisan consensus on right to privacy” today. It reads in part: The democracy protests in Hong Kong are a daily reminder of how...
View ArticleThe Hong Kong 2019 unrest and riots (part 2): A full-scale American funded...
Note: This is an extension of another post, which can be found: https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2019/09/06/links-on-hong-kong-2019-unrest/ Over this past Summer and Fall, I watched with heightened...
View ArticleAustralian Lowlifes – American Empire’s Bitches
[This piece is cross-posted at theSaker. A “more polite” version has been published at AsiaTimes.] I have picked on America for some time … and for good reasons … because American leaders and media on...
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