Amazing. The head of NPR thinks that the question of whether someone who has promoted outright lies should have a job in journalism “does not have an easy answer.” nytimes.com/2024/04/11/bus…

I know that Prime Minister Kishida's speech to the U.S. Congress today focused on security issues, but it would be pretty great if it went down in history as the 'The Yabba-Dabba Do Speech.'

Kishida to Congress: “I want to address those Americans who feel the loneliness & exhaustion of being the country that has upheld the international order almost single-handedly. I understand it is a heavy burden…The US should not be expected to do it all…asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…

Going out on a limb here, but I’m pretty sure that if you include a Star of David in your collection of symbols of the “evils of the world,” you’re an antisemite.

Russia’s war on Ukraine is notable in that there’s really no moral ambiguity involved. At all. So if your goal is to introduce any moral complexity into it, the only way to do it is by making up a bunch of shit that never happened.🧵

You have to hand it to Beijing's overseas influence operators. They've played the long game. Their elite-capture strategy has worked. We've been watching the result, in real time, at the Hogue inquiry: nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-… via National Post

China still benefits reputationally among Western intellectuals by being coded 'left', even though it is one of the most nationalistic and surplus-labor-expropriating polities in history (and much more besides)
'It is remarkable...how the critics will try to taint Friedman with…

See here for additional details on the new SPC case database 人民法院案例库 (People’s Courts Case Database), including the approval process for cases.supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/2024/03/05/the…. Prestigious for lower courts to have included

People's Court Daily publishes selected responses to the Legal Answers Network (fa da wang) （法答网)--it appears to be the electronic version of the letters to 人民司法 of 40 years ago (I have a published collection of those letters)

Follow-up on the fate of China Judgments Online: open.substack.com/pub/donaldclar…

Bolton announces he’ll help Trump win.

Who knew that this tough guy was such a delicate flower that he couldn’t and can’t bring himself to pull the lever for the one candidate who could defeat Trump.

John Bolton: “I might as well say it now: I voted for Dick Cheney [in 2020]. And I’ll vote for Dick Cheney again this November.”

Apr 8: somewhere in China, a 🇨🇳 driver from a ride-hailing service demanded two passengers leave his vehicle as soon as he learned that they’re Japanese…

The video went viral on 🇨🇳 social media and most people applauded the driver’s action.

Justin Trudeau is likely to face sharp accusations that he did not take the threat of foreign interference seriously enough because his Liberal Party is believed to have benefited from China’s actions in the general elections of 2021 and 2019. nyti.ms/4aNHC59

Wow.

So sad to see this from Dean Chemerinsky at UC Berkeley Law. Kudos for his patience and courage.

Let me get this straight:

Fisk and her husband invite a bunch of law students to dinner at THEIR HOUSE.
Some of the students decide to come with a microphone and stage a protest.
When Fisk and her husband ask them to leave THEIR HOUSE, they say 'we have rights'.

Yes?

The legal system will never run out of ways to protect the wealthy and powerful from meaningful accountability buff.ly/3Ubj1lm

this week Elon Musk’s X began changing users’ tweets in the X app for iOS without their permission

if a user posted “Twitter .com” then it would automatically appear as “X .com”

even worse, other URLs are getting caught in this and being changed too
mashable.com/article/twitte…

The Hong Kong Government and its Chief Executive John Lee have apparently been taken for a ride‼️

The website and LinkedIn page of the Dubai private office of Sheikh Ali Rashed Ali Saeed Al Maktoum, who pledged to open a US$500M family office in Hong Kong, were no longer…