China… Joshua’s Map: Beijing’s Coverage of North Korean Defector Issues and Human Rights 23 Aug 201720 Aug 2017 In January/February 2015, the Huanqiu Shibao (the foreign affairs tabloid under Beijing People's Daily, massive readership etc.) used one of Joshua Stanton's maps to indicate the locations of North Korea's largest…
Huanqiu Shibao… Pre-emptive strike plans in Korea 25 Apr 201625 Apr 2016 In response to a question from a reporter about Operational Plan 5015: In a certain sense, the North Koreans are the victims of their own inflated rhetoric and propaganda about…
Chinese communist party… Journalist Expulsions and Beijing’s Counterterrorism Narrative 26 Jan 2016 2015 was supposedly a triumphant year for the Chinese Communist Party, but the CCP seemed determined to end the year on a landslide of insecurity with respect to the foreign journalists…
Sino-North Korean relations Meth, Road-Tripping, Drought, Aid, and Forbidden Love: Five North Korea Stories from China 24 Jun 2015 Microblogging in English or Chinese continues to present limits on and challenges for academics who 'watch' Northeast Asia. Certainly, in the process of gathering information about the region, it has gotten…
China… Old Chapters, New Chapters: The Memory Wars in East Asia 17 Mar 201517 Mar 2015 From the very beginning of the so-called ‘post war,’ the territorial and temporal parameters of the memory wars between China and Japan were never drawn particularly cleanly. The war ended…
China… On Translation: North Korea in the Sinophone Gaze 20 Oct 201421 Oct 2014 Chinese writing about North Korea is peculiar. And perhaps it ought to be. Surely, well-informed insights and even genuinely insightful speculations ought to be welcomed to the table with alacrity,…
Korean War… China and Conflict on the Korean Peninsula: The Return of the Great Powers Conference in Leeds 21 Jun 20143 Jul 2014 On July 3, I'll be giving a paper at a conference of historians and policy makers at the University of Leeds on a subject near and dear to the hearts…
Beijing… Anti-Japanese Protests in Beijing, and the History of Diaoyu Protests 15 Sep 2012 Three suitably breathless Global Times articles and photo galleries are linked below, but for a sane appraisal of at least part of what is going on, I recommend MIT professor M.…
