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…
Chinese communist party… Republican Reading for the Day 10 Oct 20117 Nov 2011 ...is on YouTube. And the online essays on the meaning of the 100th anniversary (today!) of the Chinese republic by Jottings from the Granite [or was it 'Gangster'?] Studio and…
Chinese communist party… Kim Jong Il in China: PRC Media Tropes 20 May 201120 May 2011 If there's one thing we know about North Korea, it is that the DPRK is intensely mindful of how it is portrayed in foreign media. Scrutinizing its own international image…
American Foreign Policy… Trashing Diplomatic Etiquette, or Just Empty Cannon Shots? Huanqiu Shibao Weighs in on Clinton’s ‘Fool’s Errand’ Comment 16 May 201116 May 2011 There has been an immense amount of action which has occurred in the U.S.-China relation in the past week, actions about which, being on several "fool's errands" of my own,…
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…
China… Chinese Reportage from Rajin, North Korea 24 Dec 201027 Dec 2010 Regarding the Korean peninsula, the Chinese media strategy of the past several days has been, perhaps, a bit opaque. But yesterday, clarity arrived! The Huanqiu Shibao of December 23 makes…
American Foreign Policy… Obedient, Intransigent North Korea in the Chinese Media 22 Dec 201022 Dec 2010 Thanks to the ever-productive Joshua Stanton at the very useful but hopelessly Anglophone (and somewhat impervious) command post for North Korean counter-revolution known as One Free Korea, I got motivated…
history and memory… Stories to Follow 15 Jul 201015 Jul 2010 I recommend you watch how these stories develop, since most of them have yet to be really reported in the Anglophone press: 1. Legacies of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria Chinese…
China… How Bellicose is the Global Times? Checking the Record on US-South Korea Naval Exercises 8 Jul 20108 Jul 2010 Here in Seoul there has been a great deal of attention paid of late to China's increasingly truculent response to the planned US-ROK Navy joint exercises planned near the northern…
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