By Pyrrhic Victor

A Drive In Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a city unlike any other, its buildings rising up out of the hills like ridged obelisks, its waters rippling with cargo ships, ferries, and buoys, its mountainside pain ...

Chinese Fans In Uproar After National Soccer Team Loses 5-1 To Thailand

It's difficult -- it really is -- to say Chinese soccer has reached a "new" low, considering its history of match-fixing and utter, abysmal, unmitigated failure on the internationa ...

Introducing: The Creamcast, The Official Podcast Of Beijing Cream

We're launching a podcast! On the occassion of Episode 1, featuring Frank Yu, The Creamcast hosts John Artman and The Good Doctor are here to answer some questions. ...

Chen Guangcheng Is Being Asked To Leave NYU, And We Should All Be Okay With That

Last May, lawyer-activist Chen Guangcheng was a media darling and international hero. His dramatic escape from the village of Dongshigu, where he was held under house arrest, made ...

Hail And Serein: The Amazing Storm That Just Swept Through Beijing

That was quite the collective experience, Beijing. An hour ago, a dam in the sky broke. Rain turned into pellets of ice, the sound of its steady assault only interrupted by thunder ...

Gaokao Questions Are Ridiculous

Global Times is running a neat feature on its Facebook page (yes, Global Times has a Facebook page) in which it posts sample questions from China's National College Entrance Exam, ...

Mitch Moxley: My Troll And Me

Over the last week a number of people have asked me about Internet trolls leaving defamatory comments on this website and others. Even though common sense tells me to ignore them, ...

More Tito Than Samuel L.: A Military Specialist Weighs In On China’s First Aircraft Carrier, The Liaoning

By Pyrrhic Victor October 10, 2012 2:48 pm Comment : 4

By Pyrrhic Victor Yesterday morning, People’s Daily went full defensive over “irresponsible remarks” regarding China’s Varyag Liaoning aircraft carrier. The article kicks off in true PD fashion, with a title befitting an elementary student who's been told to shut up and stop showing off his new toy: Stop making irresponsible remarks about China’s aircraft carrier The article attempts to downplay the importa ...