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October 2021

The same, just a little worse
A translation of Michel Houellebecq's Je ne crois pas aux déclarations du genre « rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant » (May 2020), in honor of the…
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Kevin Carrico
Which Mayer Brown Asia lawyers composed HKU's letter to the HK Alliance demanding the removal of the Pillar of Shame?
As readers of this column will know, I am dedicated to ensuring that people engaging in repression or the promotion of self-censorship are unable to…
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Kevin Carrico
A new weapon in the anti-China forces’ arsenal: foot fetish porn
[I was going through old articles and realized that this classic piece about Liu Xiaoming was published just a little over a year ago.
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Kevin Carrico
Hong Kong University is pretty much its own pillar of shame at this point, so what is there to remove?
or, Zhang Xiang wants to build that pillar of shame bigger, better, and higher than ever
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Kevin Carrico

September 2021

CCP apologia is making us all dumber
Reflections on the endless debate about Xi Jinping smashing foreigners’ skulls
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Kevin Carrico
On TECRO's proposed name change: China, Taiwan, and the ruse of pragmatic moderation
News broke earlier this week that the United States is considering approving the Taiwanese government’s request to change the name of its thinly veiled…
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Kevin Carrico
Zheng Yongnian on “the death of China Studies”
A recent article by Zheng Yongnian of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen campus) was regrettably brought to my attention, and I am in turn…
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Kevin Carrico

August 2021

Why are these state media artists disrespecting the CCP?
The image above, from Xi Jinping’s visit to CGTN in 2016, states the reality of PRC state media all too clearly: “the CCP is CGTN’s daddy.”
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Kevin Carrico
Very bad news for billionaire Xi Jinping: Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping wants to place curbs on excessive wealth
In devastating news for Xi Jinping, whose wealth is estimated to be at least 1.5 billion, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping this week…
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Kevin Carrico
Lab leak theory is not crazy
I remember back in late 2019 and early 2020, when I first learned that a lethal virus was spreading in Wuhan, I felt that it was an extremely curious…
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Kevin Carrico
The name of the professor at a Swiss university who severed her relationship with a PhD student for his Twitter posts is...
I am genuinely annoyed at the extent of self-serving self-censorship in China research.
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Kevin Carrico
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