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…
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…
North Korea… North Korean Lorry Watch 24 Aug 2011 Chosun Ilbo reports from Dandong about a supposed influx of Chinese military equipment into the DPRK. I was all over that bridge 5-7 days ago and there were indeed quite…
China… Emerging Chinese Narratives in the Sino-Korean Border Zone // 环球广播的中朝边区报道 17 Jul 201117 Jul 2011 The Korean border news narrative of the Chinese Communist Party seems to be changing in some subtle and perhaps fundamental ways. As Michael Rank first pointed out on North Korea…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Notes on Sino-German Relations 1 Jul 2011 Mark Siemons, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite correspondents in Beijing, has another piece in yesterday's Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung. Ironically entitled "Deutschland ist eigentlich ein zweites China in…
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… The News from North Korea: Relations with China, Aerial Drone Denunciations, Green Totalitarianism, and the Middle East 19 May 2011 Since the emergence of putative successor Kim Jong Eun into the public eye, the North Korean news media -- specifically the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA -- has taken…
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,…
Art… Huanqiu Shibao on Ai Weiwei 17 Apr 201118 Apr 2011 [Update: A rather comprehensive analysis of Huanqiu's Ai Weiwei coverage, as of April 8, can be found here via the scrupulous work of JustRecently.] Imagine my surprise, when, today, I…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea Notes 8 Apr 20118 Apr 2011 North Korean media reports that a small amount of radioactivity from Japan has reached the DPRK. How does a regime that is so good at depicting Japan as a source…
