China is a big country and as with anything big with jaws and claws, one must be careful about its reaction to provocations. This week Taiwan was not so careful while welcoming Nancy Pelosi and ended up making China very angry. The reprisal was se... Continue reading →

Chinese arrogance may prompt many jokes in the West but for millennia, jokes were no laughing matter in that country that suffered from an ailment described as “moral pomposity”. Sitting in the Heavenly Kingdom and surrounded by concen... Continue reading →

The image on this post is doing the rounds on WhatsApp. I thought it was time to come out on the side of the student and put the ignoramus teacher on the well-deserved backbench:

Oscar Wilde had said famously, "In examinations, the foolish... Continue reading →

Since the decadent democracies were not taking seriously China's claim of being a democracy, Xi Jinping decided to hold a summit meeting for heads of states of real democracies. The beautiful Island paradise of Hainan was the obvious venue for thi... Continue reading →