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“Schrödinger's Lung” in Shanghai

16/5/2022

 
New on the site this time:

An anonymous blog post by a young Shanghai woman that went viral in China (at least 1.7 million views) recounting, with bemused exasperation, her experiences in a quarantine center, in a hotel where “close contacts” were forced to isolate, and many misadventures in between.  It is well worth a read, and if you want to know what “Schrödinger's lung” refers to, you’ll need to click through.
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In addition, three more entries from Qin Hui’s chronicles of the Russian war in Ukraine, in which he continues to warn of the dangers of appeasement:

Number Five:  “Will the Bucha Massacre Put an End to Appeasement?”

Number Six:  “Appeasement and Collective Security”

Number Seven:  “Appeasement after World War II:  Solzhenitsyn's Question”

Yuan Peng, Jiang Shigong, Qin Hui

2/5/2022

 
New on the site this time:

​Yuan Peng, “Fundamental Principles Maintaining and Shaping National Security in the New Era—Studying the Outline of the Comprehensive National Security Concept”.  Yuan is both an establishment intellectual and a part of the Party-State national security apparatus.  Here he writes as the latter, in the People’s Daily.
 
Jiang Shigong, “Commerce and Human Rights (Part Two)—Sino-American Competition in the Context of World Empire”.  This is part two of Jiang’s commentary on the history of commerce and human rights in the liberal world order, in which he extends his analysis to the postwar and contemporary periods.
 
I am also continuing to translate Qin Hui’s chronicles of the war in Ukraine (7 have been published so far on FT-Chinese, which is pay walled) because his denunciations of Russian aggression and Western appeasement recall similar warnings in the period leading up to WWII:  "’Nazify’ or ‘Denazify?’ Ukraine Commentary No. 3”, and “The Russia-Ukraine War and the Soviet-Finnish ‘Winter War’—Ukraine Commentary No. 4”.

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