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Fascinating insight into Asia's influence on Western life including history, culture, food, philosophy. Curated by the erudite Christopher Harding from my home city of Edinburgh!
Sinification is a most erudite newsletter that "curates, analyses and translates key articles and speeches by China's establishment intellectuals, with a particular focus on the PRC’s international relations." This is a unique publication that brings genuine insight into China based on the translated writing of intellectuals of that country.
The most insightful writer regarding crime and corruption in sport is Declan Hill. As Mr. Hill has been researching and writing about this area for several decades, his CrimeWaves Substack is a repository of huge knowledge that readers interested in protecting sports and combatting organised crime should make a must read.
Spy Talk is written by a deeply experienced team of current affairs journalists who are supported by experts who have real life experience in areas of espionage and government security work. This combination brings the most insightful set of writing into the world of spying available anywhere, which is particularly valuable at this time as the West faces major threats from multiple malevolent states - "The Axis of Tyrannies"!