China… Wartime History and Beijing’s Response to the New Defence Minister in Tokyo 5 Aug 20165 Aug 2016 In the wake of the Upper House elections in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed a reshuffling of his cabinet. As described by Japan hand Michael Cucek, it was…
EU-East Asia relations Torch Disruptions and Shades of 2008 7 Jun 2012 In the city of Londonderry, better known as Derry, in Northern Ireland, a group of what the BBC called "dissident republicans" disrupted the running of the Olympic Torch. In related…
China… Rethinking “China’s Peaceful Rise” 1 Nov 20115 Nov 2011 Although I occasionally mourn my inability to be in two places at once -- as Sichuan and Tibet come immediately to mind -- the benefits of being in the Puget…
American Foreign Policy… Farewell, Leighton Stuart? The US Ambassador’s Jasmine Stroll in Wangfujing 27 Feb 20115 Mar 2015 Jon Huntsman, the American ambassador to China, caused a bit of a stir with his attendance at a non-demonstration-turned-media-event at the Wangfujing area McDonalds last week, an event held (or not…
American Foreign Policy… New Winter: Sino-North Korean Relations Today 16 Dec 201022 Dec 2010 Of China’s many bilateral relationships, few are as pregnant with doom as the relationship with the DPRK. That is to say, the relationship is significant to China not primarily for…
Chinese nationalism… DPRK Imports Cars: Chinese Netizens Sound Off 20 Apr 201020 Apr 2010 In preparations for the April 15 birthday of Kim Il Song/national holiday, the North Korean government imported more than 100 automobiles to be given as gifts to mid-level officials and…
China… Portland 2010=Belgrade 1999? Not Quite. 18 Mar 201018 Mar 2010 On March 12, 2010, not long after Huanqiu Shibao (the Global Times) published this story (translated here on S.V.) which cited his Sina.com microblog as encouraging Chinese Netizens to consider a boycott…
Beijing… Rana Mitter on Chinese Nationalism and Internationalism 17 Mar 2010 Rana Mitter is one of the key contemporary voices on Chinese nationalism. So let's start with the author's currency, his trademark, the man's own prose on the May 4, 1919,…
Chinese nationalism… Anti-Japanese Action on the Chinese Internet 15 Oct 200916 Oct 2009 Some of us had hopes for a broader improvement in Sino-Japanese relations with the arrival of the Hatoyama government and the recession of the LDP into minority status. After all,…
Chinese nationalism… Fistfuls of Chinese Earth, Breaths of Conspiracy, Fusillades of Propaganda 3 Sep 2009 The Laura Ling/Euna Lee editorial has been partially translated and passed along, virtually without commentary or analysis, on the Daily NK's Chinese website, which is accessible in China. And the…
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