When Men Kill
ICE terror in the U.S. and a violent stabbing in Taipei; plus a discussion with author Grace Loh Prasad at Bookman Books on Tuesday (tomorrow) at 19:30
Hello dear readers,
We apologize for being out of touch. Partly it’s the continuation of the end-of-year crush that always feels so intense in Taiwan. (We’ve had mountains of work, as well as visitors in town amid our non-Western work schedule.) But we’ve felt agitated and sickened by the news, which is awful and relentless—Maduro’s abduction, the killings of thousands of protesters in Iran, and ICE’s murder of Renee Good and terrorizing of Minneapolis. We feel fury at the authoritarian lawlessness of ICE. And now the senseless, self-destructive grab at Greenland will destroy a 75-year-old alliance with NATO. Looming over us is the sense that the more violent, isolationist, and authoritarian the U.S. becomes, the more China will feel empowered to invade Taiwan; most recently, China simulated a blockade with live-fire missiles.
