Category: China

When it comes to China, I blame the giant panda bears

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Bookworm

I know this sounds crazy, but I think China’s identification with giant pandas leads too many to think the CCP is as harmless as those cute bears.

Cost Plus World Market’s hypocritical virtue signaling

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Bookworm

The hypocritical climate-change virtue signaling at Cost Plus would be funny if it didn’t weaken America and strengthen China. I grew up as a Cost Plus child. We used to shop at the original store in Fisherman’s Wharf (where it opened in 1958), although beginning sometime in the 1960s, we

What do Democrats and the CCP have in common?

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Bookworm

For both Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party, it can get pretty deadly when they show their love for you. The title of this post, of course, is a trick question. As we’ve seen with today’s social media purge, the Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party have everything in common.

Is this idea about the origin of the Wuhan virus too off the wall?

Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 by Bookworm

Could China have created the Wuhan virus to provide a little extra breathing room in its socialized medicine and welfare systems? I already know that this idea is far-fetched, but it formed in my mind so perfectly that I had to run with it. I’ll make this brief because there’s

For Passover this year, China will take Pharaoh’s role

Posted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 by Bookworm

The Passover story provides us with deep insights into the nature of tyranny. This year, China’s tyranny is the subject of my annual Passover post. For roughly 3,500 years, Jews have been telling and retelling the story of Passover — which is also the story of the world’s first revolt

China’s place in the post-COVID-19 new world order

Posted on April 1, 2020June 5, 2021 by Bookworm

China probably didn’t hatch COVID-19 malevolently. Instead, it’s just China’s habitual carelessness, which the world encouraged to get cheap products. When I was a little girl in the 1960s, the cheap gewgaws and trinkets came from Japan. They weren’t making anything fancy back in the day, no stereo systems or

Healthcare in China is bad and China is dirty

Posted on March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 by Bookworm

Not only did Trump act swiftly and appropriately to address coronavirus, our culture of cleanliness and market-based medicine gives us a big edge over China. Let me preface what I’m about to write by saying that, when I grew up in San Francisco, it’s the absolute truth to say that

An insight into the new Coronavirus, zoonosis, and China

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Bookworm

With a connection between exotic meats and infectious diseases such as China’s Coronavirus, our habit of eating boring farm animals is a good thing. Zoonosis is a category of infectious diseases that start with animal-to-animal transmission, morph to animal-to-human transmission, and then leap into human-to-human transmission. They’re almost always scary

Bookworm Beat 8/26/19 — China versus the Aztecs and open thread

Posted on August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 by Bookworm

A fun, down-and-dirty post comparing China to the Aztec Empire and talking about the real economic difference between Red and Blue states. Yes, China does have something in common with the Aztecs. One of the points I’ve been making for about a decade is that, contrary to what they teach

A few thoughts about the trade war with China UPDATED

Posted on May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 by Bookworm

China has been slowly sucking America dry through unfair trade. Trump is right to demand that it treat us fairly and I think he’ll win this trade war. When I graduated from high school, a family friend, recently widowed, sold me her deceased husband’s eight-year-old car for a price I

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Bookworm Beat 5/7/19 — the Vanishing Conservatives on Social Media edition

Posted on May 7, 2019May 12, 2019 by Bookworm

There are reasons for you to be very afraid of the social media crackdown on conservatives (even fringe ones), plus other scary stuff in today’s world. Democrats prepare for 2020 by silencing conservatives. If I had to identify the scariest news today, it would be Twitter’s purge of conservatives, which

Pictures from Hong Kong to round out my trip

Posted on October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 by Bookworm

We were in Hong Kong for too short a time for me to get any but the most shallow impressions of this amazing city . . . but I do have some photos to share. I’m baaaack! And so darn tired, I’ll probably be typing in tongues. What with traveling

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China Kills US Intel Assets In 2010; NYT Ignores The Obvious Question About Hillary

Posted on May 21, 2017May 21, 2017 by Wolf Howling

Although the New York Times has lots of guesses about how China identified CIA assets, it ignores the role Hillary’s server may have played. In a move that crippled US intel, China, between 2010 and 2012, somehow became aware of the identities of people cooperating with the CIA in China.

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Bookworm Beat 1/26/17 – Life in Trump’s America round-up

Posted on January 26, 2017January 26, 2017 by Bookworm

You’ll notice that the title of this post — Life in Trump’s America — echoes previous round-ups I did called Life in Obama’s America. Those old posts were dystopian; in this, the new Age of Trump, things are a lot more cheerful when viewed through the prism of patriotism, rationality,

A few notes about Beijing (and business class)

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Bookworm

Last night, I posted a few pictures of Beijing before I staggered off to bed, too tired even to remember that we’d crossed into 2017. (Happy New Year to all of you, by the way.) Now, though, I have time for a little narrative. Because I was boasting about the