The plot thickens. At least four foreign objects have now been shot down over the US. The Chinese are livid. The Americans are baffled. No one seems to know exactly…
It’s just a balloon. Nothing to worry about. Just your regular, normal, giant spy balloon. Please don’t shoot at it. One of the more puzzling sources of friction in foreign…
The cult classic Fight Club has just undergone a surprising change, to the chagrin of many viewers: a drastically altered new ending, which was recently uploaded by Chinese streaming site…
The Olympics’ slightly chillier Winter edition will be underway as you are reading this, and yet you would be forgiven for having forgotten to tune in. The usual round of…
What could possibly be more tragically fitting a metaphor for the fall of the American Empire than the election of a man who seems to be falling apart himself? A…
During the week of the 20th September, there was a massive sell-off in the stock market worldwide after Evergrande, the second largest Chinese property developer, was exposed to be at…
“America is back,” US President Joe Biden boldly asserted at the Munich Security Conference this February, outlining a combative but calculated attitude in dealing with America’s most militaristic adversaries. Unlike…
76 Days, a new documentary that details the harrowing frontline battle against the Coronavirus’s initial outbreak in Wuhan, is in very few ways an overtly political film. Stripped of any…
99 Spy Balloons
The plot thickens. At least four foreign objects have now been shot down over the US. The Chinese are livid. The Americans are baffled. No one seems to know exactly…
The new face of international espionage? Balloons.
It’s just a balloon. Nothing to worry about. Just your regular, normal, giant spy balloon. Please don’t shoot at it. One of the more puzzling sources of friction in foreign…
Modern-day censorship: A new ending to Fight Club in China
The cult classic Fight Club has just undergone a surprising change, to the chagrin of many viewers: a drastically altered new ending, which was recently uploaded by Chinese streaming site…
Winter Olympic apathy
The Olympics’ slightly chillier Winter edition will be underway as you are reading this, and yet you would be forgiven for having forgotten to tune in. The usual round of…
Let’s Go Brandon: A Year of Biden
What could possibly be more tragically fitting a metaphor for the fall of the American Empire than the election of a man who seems to be falling apart himself? A…
Is Evergrande a timebomb of the next global financial crisis?
During the week of the 20th September, there was a massive sell-off in the stock market worldwide after Evergrande, the second largest Chinese property developer, was exposed to be at…
At the Munich Security Conference, Biden pulls no punches
“America is back,” US President Joe Biden boldly asserted at the Munich Security Conference this February, outlining a combative but calculated attitude in dealing with America’s most militaristic adversaries. Unlike…
Inside China’s battle to suppress Covid
76 Days, a new documentary that details the harrowing frontline battle against the Coronavirus’s initial outbreak in Wuhan, is in very few ways an overtly political film. Stripped of any…