Borderlands… Border Consolidation in Liaoning: From Chen Yun to Xi Jinping 6 Feb 2017 For presentation at Leiden University lecture series "Borders: Life on the Edge of Area Studies", 28 February 2017: For the Chinese Communist Party, the northeastern province of Liaoning today inhabits…
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…
Chinese communist party… Corruption, Sanctions, Dandong 3 Oct 2016 In two essays which I anticipate publishing this week (in NK News and CPI Analysis, respectively), I question the connection between Xi Jinping's anti-corruption activity and the implementation of sanctions…
North Korean border region… Blueprints and Rumors in Sinuiju and Dandong 26 Oct 201526 Oct 2015 Last week Christopher Green and I assessed the outlook for concerted Chinese-North Korean development in the critical corridor for trade between Dandong (PRC) and Sinuiju (DPRK). Using the October bilateral…
Borderlands… Dandong Discourse: China-DPRK Trade Fair, and Rumblings in Xinchengqu 12 Jul 201513 Jul 2015 Historians have surely seen better days between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kim-centric Workers' Party of [North] Korea, but business continues apace today in the borderland. The main item seen in the…
Borderlands… Toward understanding North Korean state fears of Dandong 27 Mar 201527 Mar 2015 On March 26, the Korean Central News Agency reported at length on a truly remarkable press conference. I say "remarkable" because it dealt with a topic that, if even half of…
Borderlands… The Dandong Trade Fair 18 Oct 2014 As the rest of the world gets accustomed to seeing Kim Jong-un walk with a cane, we might do well to figure out what, if anything, is changing about the…
Chinese communist party… Yalu River Notes: On Dandong 25 Dec 2011 The following is a cross-post from SinoNK.com. And King Tubby (a regular commenter on both this site and David Bandurski's essential China Media Project) points out a new Los Angeles…
Huanqiu Shibao… Inspector O is Not in the Office: Tracing a Traffic Accident Near Pyongyang 2 Dec 2011 The story has made virtually no waves in English, Chinese, or Korean, but perhaps that is the point: On November 26, apparently within minutes of one another, two separate buses…
Huanqiu Shibao… Tremors and Premonitions from the Sino-Korean Borderlands 7 Oct 2011 On September 30, 2011, celebrated defense intellectual Zhang Zhaozhong [ 张召忠 ] visited the small but important and growing Sino-North Korean border city of Dandong, giving a talk about China's national…
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