We hear about the dramatic transformation of China in the last decades. Still, you cannot really say you know until you read this great work of Yu Hua in which the characters will bring you through time and to experience the transformation.
Why Huawei has to go? The book by Snowden shed the light.
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Huawei has to go. It is detrimental to national security in the United States. This is what the US has been telling us. The US goes full force to prevent other countries from using Huawei’s 5G technology. Recently, some clues finally revealed themselves on the reason why Huawei has to go and why the United States is desperately trying to get rid of it. It is not about competition for the 5G contract, as the United States has no company at the moment to offer 5G to compete with Huawei. Let’s see what seems to be the truth.
Continue reading “Why Huawei has to go? The book by Snowden shed the light.”The Cypress Tree by Kamin Mohammadi
I purposely looked for novels about the middle-east that are written by their inhabitants, not foreigners, and The Cypress Tree is one of those that I found. The said search criteria were due to that 1) I want to know about the middle-east, and 2) I want to know the truth. Almost all the time when westerners write about the east, regardless Asia or the middle-east, there is always a hint of Orientalism, still. It was such a strong influence since the 17th century that the effect still lingers. I believe it is very likely that the writers from the west know too well that they could be under such influence and tried their best to get rid of it. However, the force was too powerful and lasted too long to really come clean of it.
Who crashed the passenger flight in Tehran?
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Two days after the crash of the passenger flight of Ukrainian International Airline PS752 from Tehran to Kyiv, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, told media that they have intelligence indicating that the plane was shot down by Iranian surface-to-air missile. Coincidentally, Trudeau made this statement moments after Trump expresses their “suspicion” along the same line.
A miscalculation of killing Soleimani, the US laid bare the deterioration of its dominant power in the world
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The United States, being the dominant power of the world after World War II, has been maintained unchallenged for the last seven decades. Intellectuals and scholars have been proposing the gradual demise of its power in terms of economic data. For example, the United States accounted for 20.09% of world GDP in 1989 and it decreased to 15.11% in 2019 while China accounted for 4.09% of world GDP in 1989 and increased to 19.25% in 2019 (Data from IMF). However, we still look at the United States as the most powerful nation as it dominates the cultural and media discourse of the world, of who is evil and who is God. When the United States tell us that Saddam Huissein, Muammar Gaddafi, Osama bin Laden, and Bashar Hafez al-Assad are absolute evil to our world, we believed him without blinking of an eye. But how much do we know these evils of our world? Nothing.
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