Is Vladimir Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria?

IVAN KRASTEV, The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2015

(Is Putin trying to teach us a lesson? Oct. 8, 2015)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/opinion/ivan-krastev-is-putin-trying-to-teach-us-a-lesson.html 

accessed Oct. 12, 2015

1.普丁似乎教訓美國:不要又鼓勵別國人民革命推翻政府，出了問題，又不能協助革命份子，也不能帶來穩定和繁榮。要不然說到做到，要不然就閉嘴。

2.今日莫斯科書店裏歷史書把1917革命定位為:政變，而非革命。政變後面的黑手是

A.德國參謀本部,或

B.英國情報組織

“Most of the popular history books on the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 you can find in Moscow bookstores today tell the story of Lenin and his comrades not as a popular uprising, but as a coup d’état, engineered by — and here you have a choice — the German general staff or British intelligence agents. Any time and any place when people demand power, the situation gets worse.”

Chong-Pin Lin Oct.12, 2015

     林中斌 2015年10月12日

勤儉高傲的公主

2015/08/20 中國時報 江靜玲

http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20150820000488-260109   accessed October 12, 2015

l   一套衣服可以穿35年。

林中斌2015.10.12

America’s Gun Madness, as Seen From Europe

MIRA KAMDAR, The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/opinion/americas-gun-madness-as-seen-from-europe.html 

accessed Oct. 12, 2015

l  今日美國持槍濫射幾乎每天都有一起。2012年被槍殺人數在法國是140，在美國是11,622。

     林中斌 2015年10月12日

習仲勳與近平的父子情

2013-01-04 共識網 楊屏

http://www.21ccom.net/articles/rwcq/article_2013010474235.html

以下是2013年1月4日 “楊屏：習仲勳與近平的父子情”的摘錄。楊屏是習仲勛被下放監視時，村中的忘年交朋友。

林中斌 2015年1011日

Fascinating life of journalist who discovered WWII was about to begin

Mail Online, Oct 9, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3262251/The-woman-Hitler-s-tanks-Polish-border-discovered-WWII-begin-Fascinating-life-pistol-packing-journalist-dubbed-Scarlet-Pimpernel-helping-3-000-flee-Nazis.html?ITO=applenews

Alice and I went with her and other China/PCA watoners including Michael Swaine and Ellis Joffe to have afternoon tea at the Peninsula in Hong Kong. That was July 12-14, 1995. I had met her before and visited her later in her office when I was at Mainlda Affairs council (1998)

Chong-Pin Lin Oct.12, 2015

2015年8月22-31日蘇格蘭狂想曲
The Scottish Fantasy August 22-31, 2015

  蘇格蘭是古堡、精靈、彩虹之鄉。雖然，它更有名的是高爾夫、威士忌、和風笛之國。

The world doesn't have to fear Japan

Ian Bremmer, Time, Oct 5, 2015

http://time.com/4047863/the-world-doesnt-have-to-fear-japan/

 accessed Oct 5, 2015

l  It appears that Bremmer read my May/June 2015 Asian survey article “Behind Rising East Asian Maritime Tension with China: Struggle without Breaking”

Chong-Pin Lin Oct 5, 2015

The U.S. war against ISIS is going nowhere

Mark Thompson, Time, Oct 5, 2015

http://time.com/4047857/the-u-s-war-against-isis-is-going-nowhere/

  accessed Oct 5, 2015

l  U.S. primacy on the military power does not work and may backfire eventually.

Chong-Pin Lin Oct 5, 2015

From schoolboy to survivor

Chris Buckley and Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The New York Times, Sep 25, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-cultural-revolution.html

 accessed May 24, 2015

l  Note the story now Xi Jinpine was struggled against during the cultural revolution while his own mother denounced him. This has not been told before.

Chong-Pin Lin Oct.5,2015

Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle Offers Cold Shoulder to Western Officials

Edward Wong, The New York Times, Sep 25, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-president-inner-circle-western-officials.html

accessed Sep 25, 2015

 l  Xi relies mainly on his own knowledge and instincts in making decisions. Under Mr. Xi, there is no equivalent of Dai Bingguo, the chief foreign policy oficial of the Hu administration who met with White House officials. Yang Jiechi holds the same title.