Geopolitics and China – June 2023

Everything you do, do it with love ... Bonus film - home-made tofu (dofu), and the well-known dish - MaPo DoFu ...

A 16-year-old girl embarks on a fantastical and dangerous adventure after transforming into a dolphin. When a boy sacrifices himself to save her, she uses magic to bring him back to life -- only to learn that this power comes at a serious price. Directors: Liang Xuan, Chun Zhang "Never short on visual or emotional wonder, Big Fish & Begonia contemplates mortality with the imagination of an old soul who has been given new eyes." In Big Fish and Begonia, viewers are acquainted with characters and deities who are charismatic, flippant, heartbroken, stoic, and all other manners appropriate for an epic fantasy about the emotional inclinations of gods and men ... A wonderful film - don't miss it !

With Lemmino ... With DeepMind - human (Korean Lee Sedol, Go Champion, with 18 World Titles) vs. AI, in the ancient Chinese board game of Go. How AI can help find things humans have missed, and what about when AI becomes smarter than us ...

Yes, we're still alive ; )

With Wei's Travel ...

A talk by Eric X. Li ...

A beautiful series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the LiuJiaXia Reservoir.

Bonus film - China Celebrates its Rise from Humiliated Colony to Global Power with The New Atlas ...