John Derbyshire is a British-American writer and commentator known for his extensive writing on China, mathematics, and conservative politics. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 1997 and 2000, primarily covering Chinese politics, culture, and geopolitical issues. He is also known for his work at National Review and as the author of several books.
HE QINGLIAN is a Chinese journalist, famous in her own country for fearless criticism of her government's policies. Her book, The Pitfalls of Modernization, is currently being translated by Lawrence Sullivan of Adelphi University. She has been visiting the United States to meet with other…
Macao, Portugal's 400-year-old colony across the Pearl River estuary from Hong Kong, returned to Chinese sovereignty at midnight last December 19. Considering that the place is tiny (eight miles from end to end, with a population of 450,000), that it has no discernible economy beyond gambling and…
THE INDISPENSABLE Michael Kelly in a recent column deplores the silence of the U.S. government in the face of a massive ethnic cleansing currently under way in Kosovo, this time "conducted by the Albanians against their ethnic Serb, Croatian, Roma and Muslim Slavic neighbors." I certainly share…
WHEN WE THINK of China's problems with its minorities, we tend to think of Tibet. The spectacle of a picturesque and eccentric culture (the Tibetan official who met the 1904 Younghusband expedition bore the title "Grand Metaphysician") being stomped into the dust by a brutish and amoral despotism…
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