Art… Cultural Power Battle Threads 3 Jan 20123 Jan 2012 - The Telegraph reports in alarmist fashion about Hu Jintao warning, as the newspaper headline puts it, of "cultural warfare from the West" - A closer examination of the story…
China… Celebrating the National Day Holiday Week in the PRC 3 Oct 2011 Just when you think that China has completely exhausted its capacity to surprise you, the hard-line foreign policy tabloid Huanqiu Shibao sends a reporter to cover an S & M-themed…
Beijing… North Korean Television Coverage of Kim Jong Il in China 12 Jun 2011 Wow. Thanks to Curtis Melvin at North Korean Economy Watch for unearthing this.
American Foreign Policy… Assessing U.S.-China Competition After the Hu Jintao Visit 25 Feb 201112 Mar 2011 What follows is a straight-up reading of Matthias Nass' op-ed in Die Zeit recalibrating the US-China relationship, with special reference to debt and national security, and Hu Jintao in Washington.…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea Notes 21 Jan 201121 Jan 2011 The Hu-Obama Summit has already been subjected to some of the most intense lobbying pressures known to man. From big business to human rights groups to the defense hawks in…
China… Chinese Troops in North Korea? 17 Jan 2011 On the eve of Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C., the Chosun Ilbo releases an explosive report that Chinese troops have moved into the Rason Special Economic Zone on Korea's…
China… Drop That: Cruising the Xinhua Bookstores in Lhasa 14 Oct 201018 Nov 2016 About forty minutes before I was due to vacate downtown Lhasa, I scampered across town over to the largest Xinhua bookstore (naturally, it was right across from the Tibet Autonomous…
Beijing… Sino-NK Stories to Watch 2 Sep 2010 Now that China and North Korea have gotten their stories (mostly) straight about Kim Jong Il's five-day trip to northeast China, a small mountain of evidence exists which is worth…
Sino-North Korean relations… Chess Match: North Korean Endgame in Toronto 28 Jun 201028 Jun 2010 Today in one of Germany's leading newspapers, the Suddeutsche Zeiting, underneath coverage of the G-20 meeting in Toronto (with optimistic headlines like "In the Canadian wilderness, Merkel and Obama demonstrate…
China… Le Dernier Jours du Pekin: French Reads 18 Nov 200918 Nov 2009 My title today comes from a romantic, fin-de-siecle French account of the Boxer Rebellion, when the walled city of Beijing seemed to be Ground Zero for Armageddon. But my double…
