This blog contains so many Asia articles, it would be superfluous to write on the occasion of Trump’s Asia trip. Nothing new has transpired. It’s a lot of reading. Even in capsule form, there may be enough words to hide the obvious conclusion, of which there are many examples. Imagine for a moment the U.S. … Continue reading Selected China Readings; Trump’s Asia Tour
Reuters: Chinese state media cheer Xi-Trump meeting, say confrontation not inevitable. This was preceded by (Washington Post)Tillerson’s visit to Beijing, which the Post summarizes as a win for China. The Post notes the remarkable pivot, from a campaign that demonized China and made a saint of Russia, to the polar opposite. In the old days, … Continue reading Xi-Trump meeting; Long Range; North Korea
The intentions of Donald Trump will convince some that he intends a new world order, with these salient features: An attempt at codominium of the U.S. and Russia over large parts of Eurasia. Deliberate exclusion of China from the codominium. As with a bad marriage, there will be attempt to blame the other partner. Subtle … Continue reading 2017 Predictions; Trump’s U.S./Russia Codominium/ New-New World Order
Our future is a keyhole. (Click the thumbnail to enlarge.) Next to fields of waving grain, a family anxiously shelters from the approaching storm (triple tornadoes). Look closely; you’ll see someone making a mad dash for shelter. Their hopes focus on the keyhole, through which sunny skies beckon. 40″x30″; acrylic with objects on panel. The … Continue reading Through the Keyhole, Into the Future
Trump’s tweets about China suggest to some that the U.S. military posture with respect to the Nine Dotted Line is about to become more aggressive. Most noted is Trump’s phone conversation with the president of Taiwan, in violation of the “one China policy” of both the mainland and Taiwan, which, according Congressional Research Service (pdf), … Continue reading Trump’s Tweets on China
U.S. Election; United States Going Forward, Part 1, contains a broad brush enumeration of the totality of challenges that face the United States in the near to midterm future. Looming just beyond public comprehension is the Technological Singularity, with the hazard of concentration of inhuman power in the successors to biological life. Please prove me … Continue reading U.S. Election; United States Going Forward, Part 2
The focus of this blog has been kept fairly narrow, so that the reader has a reasonable expectation before spending a valuable click. I broke the rule egregiously with a five part Address to Davos, a consideration of the period spanning the near future to 2038. I broke even more egregiously with Why Russia Hacked … Continue reading U.S. Election; United States Going Forward, Part 1
(CNN) Prigozhin would be latest in line of Putin critics who met an early death. Quoting from Putin Replaces Surovikin; the Search for a Suvorov Ends, …As his public posture gets louder while Putin’s voice softens, why is Prigozhin still alive? The answer is the premise of the syllogism: Putin’s overriding goal is to win … Continue reading Liquidation of Yevgeny Prigozhin; Utility of Purges
We continue from Twitter and Elon Musk Part 1. In 1950, the computers we know were science fiction. This did not stop mathematics, which tends to run 50 – 100 years ahead of actual need. So 40 years before Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web, pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing considered a hot problem of today: … Continue reading Twitter and Elon Musk Part 2
This is a question for both the January 6 Committee and the intelligence community. In February, I wrote (CNN )Unspooling the latest twists in special counsel John Durham’s investigation – The Alfa Bank/ Trump Tower Connection – Screen Scraper Theory, which describes this exploitation: My suspicions were not allayed, so I developed a hypothesis. The … Continue reading Question for the January 6 Committee / Intelligence Community; Russian Involvement?