American Foreign Policy… North Korean Human Rights: Rex Tillerson as Blank Slate 11 Jan 201711 Jan 2017 Will the Trump administration maintain and extend US pressure on North Korea on the human rights front? Will the Executive Branch aim to extend and intensify US criticism of and dialogue…
Sino-North Korean relations… New Essay in The Diplomat 7 Oct 2016 Entitled 'Unraveling China-North Korea Relations,' this 2000-word essay delves into recent bilateral implications of events in Dandong and Tumen, and argues that taking a broader geographical area into account helps…
American Foreign Policy… Second-Hand Stories: East Asia in the Bill Clinton Autobiography 18 Jul 201617 Oct 2016 This essay was written in Seattle on 24 February, 2009; a shorter version was published at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma that spring. This past weekend I took a long…
American Foreign Policy… Notes on Teaching the Nixon Visit to China 5 Dec 20155 Dec 2015 The Nixon visit was as clear a turning point as will ever arrive in diplomatic history, involving two of the world’s most important nations. The Nixon visit is a prism…
American Foreign Policy… Gen. Douglas MacArthur as 2016 GOP Candidate 22 Jul 201523 Dec 2015 Amid the current field of Republicans vying for the Party's nod in 2016, how would General Douglas MacArthur fare? While MacArthur ended his career without having given a full run for…
American Foreign Policy… Atrocities, Insults, and “Jeep Girls”: Depictions of the U.S. Military in China, 1945-1949 13 May 201514 May 2015 Controversy continues to surround various military occupations in East Asia in the 20th century. Specifically, the connection between military occupation and sex work carried out by women the occupied countries remains…
Chinese foreign policy… Hong Kong in Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1945-, Recommended Reading 9 Jan 201510 Jan 2015 James T. H. Tang, “From Empire Defence to Imperial Retreat: Britain's Postwar China Policy and the Decolonization of Hong Kong,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 317-337.…
China… Cold War Analysis of Chinese History 14 Oct 2012 Includes interviews with Pearl S. Buck and Theodore White, plenty of Orientalism (the music score is a treatise itself in stereotypes and aural affects) and such gems as describing Shanxi…
American Foreign Policy… Regarding an American “Objectivist Foreign Policy”: Rand, Romney, Feigenbaum, Huntsman, and US-China Relations 13 Sep 2012 In the aftermath of events in Benghazi (the background of which Professor Juan Cole pins down like a butterfly, and the interpretation of which is covered ably by Diplopundit), and…
American Foreign Policy… “Smart Power” : A Legitimate Arm of American Foreign Policy, or Just Gratuitous Tweeting? 7 Jul 2012 When it comes to China, there ever exists a need for greater discussion of internet freedom and freedom of information more generally. To the extent that the United States and…
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