East Asian modernity… Sharing the Seas 3 Mar 2011 Since more than a few distinguished readers of this blog have expertise in matters dealing with fish and clean oceans in the Far East, and because environmental issues in East…
American Foreign Policy… If China Did Something Right, Would Anyone Notice? 23 Oct 200912 Oct 2018 Ever since the Amercian press corps wandered into dusty Yanan in the rumpled personage of a 30-year old named Edgar Snow in 1935, it seems that Western views of the…
American Foreign Policy… Environmental Movements and the DPRK [II] 10 Sep 200910 Sep 2009 In an earlier post I went off the handle in Beat style and demanded that the U.S. and China get serious about both engaging and pressuring the North Koreans by…
Cultural Politics… European Press Roundup / Envisioning DPRK Environmental Movements 6 Sep 2009 Matthieu Mabin, Liberation's intrepid reporter in Islamabad, reports on atomic scientist Abdul Khan in an article cleverly titled "Dr. Khan Again Becomes a Free Electron [Khan redevient un electron libre]." …