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…
China… Liaoyang-Dalian: The Transformation of China’s Rust Belt Unrest 28 Aug 2011 The 14 August 2011 protests in Dalian, forcing the closing of a major chemical plant there, have inspired a fair amount of news in the Anglophone and Sinophone press. Now the…
American Foreign Policy… Yuanhai Fangwei [远海防卫]: Observing China’s Navy 25 Aug 2011 Back in the American defense belt of Orange County, I'm reading Kissinger and reflecting on the extensive annual report to Congress from the Pentagon regarding Chinese military capabilities. The full…
Environmental Politics in East Asia Report from Dalian 23 Jul 2010 via ChinaDigitalTimes; Suddeutche Zeitung has a photo gallery with commentary on the concurrent floods in the Chinese south.
Chinese communist party… Kim Jong Il in the Chinese Mainland Press 4 May 2010 Fresh from a session with Bruce Cumings at the University of Washington (more on his speech tomorrow, including photographs), I'm posting a few links to dispel the notion that Kim…