BLOG Post #387: China’s Rise Hits a Wall 31 Aug 2023 Over the last decade or so, the tendency among China watchers has been to see China’s rise as an endless upward progression. Just as happened during the Cold War…
BLOG Post #386: The Fukushima Tragedy Resurfaces 25 Aug 202325 Aug 2023 Releasing the Water Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying…
BLOG Post #385: No Free Lunch: The Hidden Costs of EVs 20 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 The Hidden Costs In his pathbreaking 1971 book, The Closing Circle, Barry Commoner proposed four laws of ecology: Everything is connected to everything else; Everything must go somewhere; Nature…
BLOG Post #384: China’s (Un)popularity 4 Aug 2023 One of Xi Jinping’s signature initiatives is the idea of China’s renaissance—“the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” as he puts it. Part of that effort is to arouse the loyalty…
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