Beijing… Notes on the Sino-North Korean War of Words 26 Sep 20177 Jul 2021 Just because the US President has thrown up a number of smokescreens and signs of real mania of late does not mean writers must "resist" by reflexively taking an analytical…
China… Joshua’s Map: Beijing’s Coverage of North Korean Defector Issues and Human Rights 23 Aug 201720 Aug 2017 In January/February 2015, the Huanqiu Shibao (the foreign affairs tabloid under Beijing People's Daily, massive readership etc.) used one of Joshua Stanton's maps to indicate the locations of North Korea's largest…
Huanqiu Shibao… Pre-emptive strike plans in Korea 25 Apr 201625 Apr 2016 In response to a question from a reporter about Operational Plan 5015: In a certain sense, the North Koreans are the victims of their own inflated rhetoric and propaganda about…
Chinese communist party… Journalist Expulsions and Beijing’s Counterterrorism Narrative 26 Jan 2016 2015 was supposedly a triumphant year for the Chinese Communist Party, but the CCP seemed determined to end the year on a landslide of insecurity with respect to the foreign journalists…
China… On Translation: North Korea in the Sinophone Gaze 20 Oct 201421 Oct 2014 Chinese writing about North Korea is peculiar. And perhaps it ought to be. Surely, well-informed insights and even genuinely insightful speculations ought to be welcomed to the table with alacrity,…
Environmental Politics in East Asia… Odyssey of Extortion: Chinese Press Coverage of the North Korean Boat Hijacking 25 Sep 2014 How is it that the world beyond Beijing and Pyongyang becomes aware of Chinese-North Korean fishing disputes in the Yellow Sea? North Korea remains silent on such matters, so information…
Huanqiu Shibao… Two Essays on Chinese-North Korean Relations, and a Note on the Kim Jong-un Succession 19 Mar 2014 On March 10 and 12, I published short essays on Chinese-North Korean relations with Sino-NK and the China Policy Institute Blog of the University of Nottingham, and preceded these with…
Huanqiu Shibao… A Couple of Notes on the North Korean Election 11 Mar 2014 The elected body, the "Supreme People's Assembly", rarely meets and has very little actual power. So this entire March 9 election exercise and its lead-up became in part a vehicle…
China… Hatoyama in Nanking 17 Jan 2013 Hatoyama Yukio [ 鳩山由紀夫] is the former Prime Minister of Japan (2009-2010) and the grandson of Hatoyama Ichiro [鳩山 一郎]. Today, he continues on a somewhat quixotic but surely very necessary…
