Borderlands… Three Questions on Dandong and Chinese-North Korean Economic Relations 19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014 As the third China-North Korea Trade Fair continues, a few questions (modified from those posed by a stalwart reporter from a northern European news magazine roaming Liaoning province) and tentative…
Borderlands… New Chinese Writing on North Korea 13 Oct 201413 Oct 2014 Chinese scholarship and journalistic analysis of North Korea tends to be very strong, if occasionally oblivious or channeled due to political censorship. From a scholarship standpoint, China's increasing distance from…
China… Documenting Claims of China’s “Charm Diplomacy” 4 Jul 2012 A recent essay on Chinese “soft power” written not by a US-trained academic, but from within China, provides a chance to find fissures between how and why China is using…
Adam Cathcart 