Preppy Statesman

Foreign Policy with 🍸and boat 👟

[mapsontheweb]

Two years after the border incidents between the India and China, two rival armies on the heights of Ladakh, Beijing consolidates its positions by taking parts of Indian territory

Full article (in French) >>

[andallshallbewell]

[mapsontheweb]

Taiwan is around the same size as the Netherlands and Switzerland.

[preppystatesman]

Warm evenings & spying

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

“Betrayal. We betray to be loyal. Betrayal is like imagining when the reality isn’t good enough… betrayal as hope and compensation. As the making of a better life. Betrayal as love. As a tribute to our unlived lives… betrayal as escape. As a constructive act. As a statement of ideals. Worship. As an adventure of the soul. Betrayal as travel. How can we discover new places if we never leave home? You were my Promised Land, Poppy. You gave my lies a reason.”

- John le Carre, A Perfect Spy

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

“A traitor needs two things, Smiley once said: somebody to hate, and somebody to love.”

- John le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim