5 days ago 4 min "Rumors from Shanghai" launched March 1, almost a year to the day since the original planned launch date at the 2020 Shanghai International Literary Festival, is launch ...
Jan 24 3 min Post-Inauguration Reading...for Fun: "Remembering Shanghai" The celebrations the last time America ousted a disastrous head of state is a fond memory. Michelle Garnaut, inimitable founder of M on t...
Dec 6, 2020 1 min No, Biden's China Policy Will Not Be Trump 2.0 The Seattle Times has an op-ed out "The path to a new China policy" from Michael Burke and me: We have no illusions that the US and China...
Dec 1, 2020 4 min From beginning to end ~ Tyranny & Strongmen With the thorough thumping delivered at the end of November by Republican-appointed justices in the Third Circuit, Trump's litigation-dr...
Nov 6, 2020 2 min Debt & Gratitude: Black Americans Saving the Day...again Friday morning, post-election Day 3 and the voting tallies for Georgia and Pennsylvania now show Joe Biden leading. Perhaps by the end of...
Sep 13, 2020 5 min Dreaming and...Deferring When I was little, two when-I-grow-up-I-want-to-be dreams lit my fire: one was becoming a writer and the other was becoming a lawyer. Su...
Jul 31, 2020 5 min China In U.S. Courts: Not New, but...What Happened? On July 30, @Kate_OKeefe and @aviswanatha’s article “China’s New Tool to Chase Down Fugitives: American Courts” appeared in the WSJ: The ...
Jul 3, 2020 2 min Political volunteering in a pandemic Political organizing typically has relied on face-to-face interactions. "Hit the doors" "Debate watch parties" "Turn out for rallies" One...
Jun 25, 2020 1 min Canada & the #TwoMichaels Case: Considerations for the Future This week I spoke with the #TorontoStar about efforts by leading figures in Canada's legal system to persuade the Minister of Justice to w...
May 29, 2020 2 min U.S.-listed PRC companies: still playing pin the tail on the donkey Re possible delisting of PRC-headquartered co's from US exchanges, this is a governance issue that has been brewing for over a decade. Wh...