The death of McAfee is the final chapter in the mad, bad life of a man who became my neighbour 13 years ago. We were both living on Ambergris Caye, a tropical island 16 miles off the Caribbean coast of Belize in Central America. He’d picked up what had been …
Read More »‘Paranoid delusion’: Beijing fumes as US Senate passes massive anti-China tech bill
The foreign affairs committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, blasted the new US legislation on Wednesday, accusing Washington of seeking to undermine the country’s “legitimate right to development through technology and economic decoupling.” The legislation is “full of Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice,” and the Chinese parliament …
Read More »What happened at the Capitol was bad. But the Democrats’ rhetoric of ‘sedition’ and ‘insurrection’ is paranoid and authoritarian
Come on, guys and gals, chill out USA. Calm down, calm down. You say you want to heal. Okay. The first thing y’all need to do is dial down the rhetoric. A coup attempt, an insurrection, sedition – whatever wonderfully evocative term you care to reach for – is not …
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