XINJIANG, HONG KONG, AND THE DANGERS OF ECONOMIC DETERMINISM

by Bay Area Guy

Pity the Uighurs. Over three years after I wrote about the plight of China’s beleaguered Turkic minority, their predicament has only gotten worse. Not content to crack down on sporadic outbursts of Uighur rage, China — still too big and non-white to oppose — now insists on regulating all aspects of Uighur life; and the result is a surveillance state on steroids.

HONG KONG AND THE HOLLOWNESS OF THE CHINESE DREAM

by Siryako Akda

When the Hong Kong protests first began, I regarded the whole thing with impartial interest. As a foreigner, it was an entirely Chinese affair. However, like most major political events in our heavily globalized world, the protests are not just isolated events; they have implications for other parts of the world as well. This is particularly true for the Hong Kong protests, since they can be interpreted in several different ways.

EMOPOLITIKAL DOMINANCE AND THE GEOPOLITICIZATION OF THE INTERNET

Some smart phones protesting with their human carriers.

by Colin Liddell

Back in February, around the time of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, I wrote an article Let the Internet Clone Wars Begin.

The point of the article was that America, either as a conscious entity or as an unfocused manifestation of its evil essence, exerts an undue amount of its power through its internet hegemony; and that any nation, civilization, or ideology determined to stand up to this, needs to construct its own alternative systems.