The Peking Duck
A peculiar hybrid of personal journal, dilettantish punditry, pseudo-philosophy and much more, from an Accidental Expat who has made his way from Hong Kong to Beijing to Taipei and finally back to Beijing for reasons that are still not entirely clear to him...
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Socialism in America
Americans are weary. We are weary of seeing billions of our hard-earned tax dollars going to fight forever wars. Weary of giving Israel a literal blank check as it commits genocide in Gaza, and carries out murderous pogroms in the West Bank. Weary of AIPAC’s tentacles wrapped…
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America through Chinese eyes
“I would never go to America. Everyone there has guns and I don’t want to get shot.” That’s what my young Chinese colleague said to me as we were working at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. To him, the US must be a dystopian hellscape to be avoided at all costs to protect life and…
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A new chapter
PINNED Several years ago I put up a post saying The Peking Duck was “officially closed.” I had had enough of blogging. Since then, I idiotically tried to breathe new life back into the blog with some new China-related posts but my heart just wasn’t in it. I don’t want to write…
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Shaun Rein on the TSM
Shaun Rein does it again, putting up a maddeningly stupid tweet on today’s anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He actually said he can’t comment on it because “I wasn’t there. I only talk about what I know.” This is incredibly disingenuous. I’ve never been to Auschwitz…
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The Cult of Xi
Little is scarier to me than the phenomenon of personality cults. Think Jim Jones and his 900+ followers drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Think Stalin’s fanatical apparatchiks snatching food from Ukrainian farmers, leading to one of the worst man-made famines in history (twenty…
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Shanghai, the next Xinjiang?
There is an absolutely must-read article in yesterday’s NY Times drawing parallels between China’s police state policies in Xinjiang and the brutality of the “Zero Covid” policies imposed on the people of Shanghai. Let me say first that my dearest friend in China lives and works…
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Xinjiang and Shaun Rein
[This blog is officially closed, but from time to time I will add new content, mainly for myself since no one comes here anymore.] I think by now most of us have seen the New Yorker’s shocking expose of life in the Xinjiang “re-education” camps. The CCP has done nothing less…
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The Peking Duck is officially closed
Obviously, this blog has been “closed” for months (if not years, really). Now I simply want to make it official, and to share my final thoughts on The Peking Duck. For now, I am leaving the site up, at least temporarily. It would be too painful for me to take down; so much of my…
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Trump Nation
In one of my most overwrought posts (and there are a lot of overwrought posts on this blog) I despaired, somewhat histrionically, that in order to survive the horrors of the Age of Trump, I had to try to block it out and look inward. What was happening was simply too terrible,…
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Liu Xiaobo
Readers of this blog need no introduction to Liu Xiaobo, his life or his death. I just wanted to take a moment to reflect on his passing several days ago, and to share my thoughts on what his plight tells us about the CCP and the perils of being an activist in today’s China. Liu…