Day: January 22, 2017

Behind the ‘Modern’ China

Behind the ‘Modern’ China Robert Kagan | March 23, 2008 | The Washington Post Summary:  China can go for great stretches these days looking like the model of a postmodern, 21st-century power. But occasionally the mask slips, and the other side of China is revealed. The question for observers of Chinese foreign policy is whether…

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“Trump’s inaugural address was demonstrably bleak”

… sprawl, ignored, windswept, overseas, tombstones, rusted-out, trapped, neighborhoods, landscape, flush, carnage, unrealized, robbed, stolen, likes, listening, hardships, transferring, politicians, reaped, stops, subsidized, disagreements, bedrock, Islamic, reinforce, solidarity, unstoppable, brown, mysteries, arrives, politicians, hire, infrastructure, trillions, depletion, allowing, disrepair, redistributed, tunnels, stealing, ravages, issuing, bleed”

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone. D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (via afroui)