Welcome to the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, coming to you from a pop-up Chinese studio here in Beijing.

I'm Kaiser Gwa, hosting Seoul today, and we're doing something interesting.

We're going to do a little kind of Cynica short.

Over the weekend, there was a terrific piece by Lucy Hornby, who's a journalist for the Financial

Times here in her first contribution to the Financial Times magazine.

She had a great piece on Comfort Women, and I've made a extra, to carve that extra time to get Lucy on. And she's made tremendous extra, carved out extra time to get Lucy on it.

And she's made tremendous sacrifice, monumental sacrifice to get it into the studio with us.

So welcome, Lucy.

I'm really here to talk about this piece with you.

Well, thanks, Kaiser.

I'm making my own reparations because it's really, we're overdue to have you on the show.

I mean, you've been, you know, knock around Beijing as a journalist for so very long and you're like one of the few that we've just been

somehow unable, I mean, the stars have not aligned, right, and you've not been here, but we're

now making up for it. Okay, sounds good. How did you go get started? I mean, clearly this

was timed. You timed this piece to coincide with, you know, this whole A-I-I-B

business. Comfort women obviously are very closely related to this. And as an agent of

Anglo-American imperialism, you were intending this to piece of the third dissension among the three

Northeast Asian powers. Is that correct?

Well, you know, I think that there's no time in Asia where you could put out a story

without in some way coinciding with some other thing that would lead to people accusing you

of having an ulterior agenda.

Some weirdo in your comments section actually leveled that very accusation against you, huh?

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