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A short note on CCP fear of CCP members in Hubei Province –

From several sources comes information that Hubei Provincial CCP is demanding to hold passports from midlevel CCP members and above, even long after retirement. Current retirement age for men is 60; 55 for women. Lots of CCP members have family or kids in the US. If they cannot get approval to seek a visa, they can never see their families. That's a long time to be barred from direct family contact.

Made in China 2025 … and by GOP 2025

Made in China 2025 … and by GOP 2025

A brief note on choice of dates … and choice of policies. I don’t think CCP and GOP are directly coordinating policy, but they have constructed curiously sympatico … and apparently similarly timed … programs for major world restructuring. One economic and technological, one political and radically reactionary.

On passing the academic intellectual torch

On passing the academic intellectual torch

William Kirby is a renowned China scholar at Harvard. He has written a dozen books on Chinese history and our relations with China. He has a long list of accomplishments at the highest levels of international academia and professional societies.

When he writes about superior universities in Germany and the US and China, I can only marvel at the scope of his erudition. So I feel a bit out of my element commenting on his latest book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China.

Red Imports in the Red States

Red Imports in the Red States

Governor DeSantis is quite clearly fond of CCP policies and regulations. Many of his GOP fellow travelers are in thrall as well. Ridiculous? To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Whoops! Just slipped right past me! ...

Whoops! Just slipped right past me!

From the Daily Beast, a wowser of a scoop - Berkeley’s $220M Mistake Exposed in Massive Deal With China

from the article - “U.C. Berkeley takes the matter of undue foreign government influence seriously,” he said.

That much is quite clear. Berkeley can clearly undercut the businessman in selling CCP the rope. Go Golden Bears!

And as with lots of scandals, the flaw may not be in the deal but in the avoidance of reporting. Again and again, whatever happened to avoiding the hint of impropriety? Answer - when you lose civil society or public morality, all that is left is the finely parsed letter of the law.

Change Management 3/3

Change Management 3/3

China has changed dramatically in the last forty years. Business writer and thought leader Bob Yovovich tells us that China urbanized in half the time it took the US and with ten times the number of relocations. Such rapid change must have induced complex interlocking social shifts and costs - customs broken, institutions abandoned, social ties destroyed. Now, wither China? Wither CCP?

Three questions in three posts. This is post #3.

Thesis #3 Will Mr. Democracy eventually overpower Mr. Science in Chinese culture? A democratic future must come with modernization

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