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What's Left Behind: Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy to Trump
Impressed by Donald Trump’s announcement of his first foreign-policy acts as president: building the Mexico Wall, the No-Muslims Wall,...
Mark Chin
Feb 25, 201710 min read


The Trump Storm
“To be on the wire is life; the rest is waiting,” intones the fictional Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse’s underrated film ‘All That Jazz.” It’s a...
Mark Chin
Feb 17, 20176 min read


The Blitzkrieg Presidency
“Blitzkrieg” first exploded into the global lexicon in 1939/40 as Nazi Germany’s forces stormed across western Europe with all the...
Mark Chin
Feb 8, 20176 min read


Riding the Wave
November 8th, 2016 has come and gone. So has January 20th, 2017. It is worth recognizing that the sun rose and fell as usual those days,...
Mark Chin
Jan 30, 20178 min read


Trump: It's Going to be Huge!
It’s always dangerous, not to mention presumptuous, to try and armchair analyze someone whom one has never met or known personally, much...
Mark Chin
Jan 18, 201712 min read


The Eagle & the Bear: Trump Vs. China
Donald Trump’s election as America’s forty-fifth President, has met with little tangible comment from China’s leaders. Well, little...
Mark Chin
Jan 12, 20179 min read


Loving the Alien (ii): The Barack Obama Record (Economy, Education, Environment and Executive Orders
<This article is the third in a projected series of five offering a retrospective on Barack Obama's years in power. It is hoped that one...
Mark Chin
Jan 8, 20176 min read


The Wolf At Our Door: the Syrian Tragedy
Syrian army flags fly over the burned-out, scarred remnants of Aleppo. Huge smoke clouds still slash the sky in blackish swathes from...
Mark Chin
Dec 23, 20168 min read


Loving the Alien (i): The Barack Obama Record (Economy, Education and Executive Orders)
<This article is the second in a projected series of five providing a retrospective on the Barack Obama years. The aim is to publish one...
Mark Chin
Dec 19, 20168 min read


Review: All the Way
Having come through (or survived, depending on your point of view) a tumultuous US presidential election year, it is perhaps appropriate...
Mark Chin
Dec 17, 20166 min read


A Disturbance in the Force: SG 51+ Sustaining the Miracle
Like all old places steeped in death and history, Bukit Brown, the old Chinese cemetery, is filled with an aura of profound, dilapidated...
Mark Chin
Dec 13, 20169 min read


Duel of the Fates: Republicans vs Democrats
The Republic has fallen. Donald Trump, regarded by many progressives as the Dark Lord incarnate, has stormed the White House. His legions...
Mark Chin
Dec 3, 201612 min read
Review: Ai Weiwei - the Fake Case
To anyone unfamiliar with the story of artist Ai Weiwei the initial few minutes of this documentary will be confusing. However, patient...
Mark Chin
Nov 30, 20163 min read
A Revolution of One: Fidel Castro
If Fidel Castro hadn’t existed, his friend and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez would have had to invent him. Castro sprang from the great...
Mark Chin
Nov 28, 20168 min read


Insurrections of the Spirit
After eighteen months of personal attacks, invective, distortions of the truth and outright lies, the dispiriting 2016 US presidential...
Mark Chin
Nov 23, 201610 min read


Man of Mystery: Donald Trump in Power
The view from Donald Trump’s vast penthouse in the New York tower that bears his surname must be awe-inspiring. Every morning he gets to...
Mark Chin
Nov 20, 20168 min read


Loving the Alien: The Barack Obama Record (Intro)
It is an open secret that Barack Obama is a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan. In particular he is said to be particularly fond of the starship...
Mark Chin
Nov 17, 20167 min read
Korean BBQ: the Park Geun-hye Bonfire
In this age of instant celebrity the coverage accorded to successful politicians is akin to that given to denizens of the entertainment...
Mark Chin
Nov 7, 201610 min read
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