China… US-China: Le Grand Refroidissement 3 Feb 20104 Feb 2010 Precisely one year ago, Le Monde asked in an uncharacteristically blaring headline: "US-Chine: Le Grande Refroidissement? [US-China: The Great Re-Freeze?]" Well, today that article appears to be rather prescient. From…
EU-East Asia relations… Le Figaro Photos of Pyongyang 28 Nov 2009 Arnaud de la Grange has posted about a dozen quality photos of his recent trip to Pyongyang. While most are of the standard landscapes, he has an eye for disruption,…
U.S.-China Relations… “Obama’s low bow subjected to scrutiny”: Chinese Media 17 Nov 200917 Nov 2009 Global Times in Beijing, no friend to Japan, now carries the story of Obama's low bow to Emperor Akihito, quoting the Washington Times and all. The story is carried…
US-North Korea relations Could Warren Buffett Buy North Korea? 8 Nov 2009 Thus spake the headline in Le Figaro by that paper's Beijing correspondent Arnaud de le Grange, whose dispatch of 23 October runs goes a little something like this: Le magazine…
Uncategorized Sidney Rittenberg Updates [II] 1 Nov 20092 Nov 2009 Sidney Rittenberg is one of the great remaining sages able to parse out China's past and its future. And he has now reached the lucky age of 88! Rittenberg in…
China… Strange Photographs of Chinese Power 28 Oct 2009 Read more here about this Zheng He-style effort to create the greatest map of Antartica, with 251 scientists and engineers on board, that the world has ever seen. And Arnaud…
China… Rounding up East Asian News in the French Press 25 Sep 200926 Sep 2009 French Vigilance to Beijing's October 1 Preparations Robert Neville reports in the French newsweekly L'Express about heightened security measures in Beijing in the leadup to the October 1 commemoration of…
French… Le Figaro calls terrorists “Kamikaze,” also notes on German rehabilitation of traitors/Kriegsverräter/汉奸 9 Sep 20099 Sep 2009 Le Bundestag réhabilite les « traîtres de guerre » du IIIe Reich Le Figaro 09 Sep 2009 De notre correspondant à Berlin IL LEUR AURA fallu attendre soixante-quatre ans après…
French News Service 26 Aug 2009 In an effort to keep my China-related postings up to snuff, I am excited to offer stories via "Press Display," a service of full-text international newspapers. Stories from South China…
China… Things I was going to explain before July finished [I] 1 Aug 20092 Aug 2009 I was going to explain how the CCP is launching a new English-language magazine called Qiushi to bolster its theoretical marketability and soft power among the mild left of North…
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