Shanghai Tan

When we were the Sick Man of Asia, we were called The ‘Yellow Peril’…… When we are billed to be the next Superpower, we are called ‘The Threat’…… When we closed our doors, you smuggled drugs (Opium, etc….) to open markets……. When we embrace Free Trade, You blame us for taking away your jobs……. When [...]

Without any doubt, the Dark Side has taken over control of The Empire. Happy New Year 2008! Journey to the dark side – Tom Engelhardt See more of these at TomDispatch and The American Empire Project sites. And don’t forget to buy some imperial toys if you want to celebrate it.

When you become universally popular, you automatically reap the benefits of free publicity that normal people can’t buy, even with great amount of money, simply because you represent the icon of time. People would put your photo on mugs, on T-shirt, on books, on toys, etc. I won’t attempt to distinguish between popular and unpopular, [...]

S’il y a une chose qui peut faire venir les deux célébrités légendaires, Paul Mc Cartney et Brigitte Bardot, au Canada durant la même saison, ce serait les phoques polaires! Et soudainement, dans le monde du show business, on ne parle que des phoques. Décidément, après les pandas qui étaient si médiatisés durant les années [...]

Nowadays it seems that our politicians are managing public opinion more delicately than anything else. So bad that for a given new policy that the government is trying to promote, expert groups’ opinion matters less than public opinion sometime. Especially when it comes to election campaign, all the parties are mainly managing or reacting to [...]