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…
North Korea… More Data on the North Korean Succession Struggles 30 Sep 200914 Feb 2017 Struggles for royal succession have never been entirely clear, even in the morally-charged world and post-facto world of the ancient Chinese historian Sima Qian. This past summer, a number of…
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…
China… Cultural Demolition in Kashgar: A Liberation Special Report 14 Sep 200914 Sep 2009 From the standpoint of the newspaper addict, Paris is a glorious city. Although it leans further toward the (French) center of the political spectrum than Jean-Paul Sartre's leftist daily of…
Sino-French Relations… Thoughts on Sino-French Relations from “the Time of Distrust” to Today 27 Jun 2009 One of the more exciting things I get to do as a young academic is travel to the Foreign Ministry Archives in Beijing, there to scout out new sources on…
China… The French Press and June Fourth 2 Jun 20096 Jun 2009 The French newspapers and journals are gearing up heavily for commemorations of the 20th anniverary of the crackdown on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a series of events which occurred on…
