China Daily: China, U.S. celebrate anniversary of ping -pong diplomacy

Amazing to think that ping-pong diplomacy took place 50 years ago. Considering what relations between the two nations look like these days, maybe we need it again.

WaPo: Growing international anger as U.S. refuses to share vaccines

This is a definite blight on the U.S.

Haiku time!

A boy and a ball In the backyard with the dog Endless summer joy

Project Syndicate: Genocide claim against China unfounded

Project Syndicate suggests the U.S. government has mistakenly accused China of genocide inn Xinjiang. The genocide charge was made on the final day of Donald Trump’s administration by then-Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, who made no secret of his belief in lying as a tool of US foreign policy. Now President Joe Biden’s administration has …

Why so soon?

I found out yesterday that another member of my high school graduating class has passed away. He was only 53, and he leaves behind a wife and three children. My high school class was not large; and over the nearly 36 years since we graduated, too many of us have been called home. The first …