China… US-China: Le Grand Refroidissement 3 Feb 20104 Feb 2010 Precisely one year ago, Le Monde asked in an uncharacteristically blaring headline: "US-Chine: Le Grande Refroidissement? [US-China: The Great Re-Freeze?]" Well, today that article appears to be rather prescient. From…
China… Le Dernier Jours du Pekin: French Reads 18 Nov 200918 Nov 2009 My title today comes from a romantic, fin-de-siecle French account of the Boxer Rebellion, when the walled city of Beijing seemed to be Ground Zero for Armageddon. But my double…
US-North Korea relations Could Warren Buffett Buy North Korea? 8 Nov 2009 Thus spake the headline in Le Figaro by that paper's Beijing correspondent Arnaud de le Grange, whose dispatch of 23 October runs goes a little something like this: Le magazine…
Uncategorized Sidney Rittenberg Updates [II] 1 Nov 20092 Nov 2009 Sidney Rittenberg is one of the great remaining sages able to parse out China's past and its future. And he has now reached the lucky age of 88! Rittenberg in…
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