Social & Living

Autocracy is characteristically good at avoiding truth for short terms, until one day the accumulated and aggregated great truth arrives to lead to its demise.  But democracy highly depends on people’s ability to understand the truth at any given time. Since this pandemic, the Americans by and large have not demonstrated such ability. But China as a country did demonstrate its ability to control. Hence the scoreboard: Autocracy 1, Democracy 0. I do not believe the… Read More »Autocracy 1, Democracy 0

We humans have a tendency to confuse these three different concepts:  Concurrence, Correlation and Causation.  The Covid-19 crisis is a case in point. So far, we don’t have much serious data to answer this “3C” question, and we simply presume “causation”, which could prove to be wrong and foolish.  Exactly to what degree are the deaths currently reported as Covid-19 deaths actually a mere concurrence, or just a correlation, or causation indeed? Before figuring out the… Read More »Concurrence, Correlation and Causation

After reading a post calling people to remember the Chinese massacre of 1871 (condemning the atrocities committed by Western powers in China), I felt compelled to say something. First of all, I’d like to point out a few simple facts: (1) Had the West and China had not come into contact at all, none of this would have happened; (2) but the contact did happen and was in fact inevitable; (3) Today, few Chinese wish… Read More »A Short Summary of the Modern China-West History

A father’s letter to a child There’s a very basic legal concept called “burden of proof,” which you may know about. I’m going to use this as an analogy to explain a very basic principle of life to you. It is important. So please read carefully. I don’t write to you every day. In a legal dispute, a party who bears the “burden of proof” solely bears that burden to prove what he stands for.… Read More »“Burden of Proof” in Life

To a girl who wants the best and hates her life for having to settle for something not as good: … although I don’t share the specific experience you have now, I know how it feels like when you are distressed by certain disappointment, disadvantage, detriment, or prejudice, and worse yet, you can’t pinpoint what that is, let alone fight against it, you’re just unhappy with dissatisfaction. In terms of people’s birth, family background, cultural… Read More »A letter to a college student

Friends debate over the future of China. Commentators and bloggers instigate fierce arguments between those who criticize the country (including its government, society, culture, and people) and those who zealously attack the criticisms.   Though I have no intention to join the debate,  I desire to share a little bit of my observations. In today’s China, negatively criticizing everything has become a national hobby, which is not making anyone happier. On the other hand,  the… Read More »China’s future