No free lunch (or no lunch at all)

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No free lunch (or no lunch at all)

Dear Houatfeu, A word of advice for a foreign leader. If you really need to go to the White House for an official press conference and a lunch, and if you are the elected President of a small country with no nukes, here what you should do. First, go to Macy’s and buy a cheap […]

03/03/2025

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Deng Xiaoping, pong

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Deng Xiaoping, pong

The situation in Hong Kong reminds me of the joke by Hong Kong students about the slogan « one country, two systems » imagined by the chinese communist party in order to better swallow their territory:

15/06/2019

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Throwing in the towel

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Throwing in the towel

In response to recent columns by Thomas Friedman : Being French, I am an enemy of the United States of America. I am also an ugly protectionist; I have delusion of past grandeur; and I live in a failed state with an overregulated economy and closed borders. We have a totally outdated system that is […]

05/07/2005

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