Uncategorized Afghan Mirage 9 Jun 20109 Jun 2010 Deployments can be brutal, but sometimes it can be very liberating to follow a vague command, pick up your body and your portable office, and just dump the whole mess…
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… French Press: East Asia Tropes 12 Jan 2010 Le Monde Diplomatique （法国世界外交论衡月刊）is one of the more thoughtful periodicals from the French perspective on foreign affairs, available (partially) here in English (中文版打这儿). The compendium of foreign affairs essays has a good…
China Cultural Destruction in Kashgar [II] 4 Dec 2009 This summer I translated "Cultural Demolition in Kashgar," a French story from the dynamic Paris left-wing newspaper Liberation which attracted a wide number of readers via Danwei.org and ended up…
French… Le Monde Reports on Laura Ling and Euna Lee 19 Sep 200920 Sep 2009 Le Monde conducts its own investigation of Euna Lee and Laura Ling’s cross-border excursion, arrest by North Korean troops, and the consequent chaotic aftermath among South Korean aid organizations working…
North Korea… French Dispatches from Tokyo: Philippe Pons on North Korean Provocations 1 Jul 2009 Why Read the European Press re: East Asia? A Justification I operate on assumptions that more sources, even flawed ones, are better than fewer. (I also believe, unlike the classic…
French… Report from Vladivostok 5 Jun 20096 Jun 2009 Although the article title is unnecessarily frivolous, Le Monde carries a magnificent dispatch on North Korean activities from the Russian Far Eastern port of Vladivostok: Marie Jégo, "Lettre de Russie:…
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