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Tag: Northeast China

Borderlands…

Dandong Discourse: China-DPRK Trade Fair, and Rumblings in Xinchengqu

12 Jul 201513 Jul 2015
Historians have surely seen better days between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kim-centric Workers' Party of [North] Korea, but business continues apace today in the borderland. The main item seen in the…
Borderlands…

Strung Out: Fencing and Security on the Chinese-Korean Frontier

13 Feb 2015
Q.: Have you heard anything about how extensive the fencing is along the North Korea-China border? A.: Ishimaru Jiro of AsiaPress travels the Tumen Valley extensively. This past summer in a…
China…

Commemorating National Humiliation in China

18 Sep 2011
Today is September 18, 1931, at least in China, where the 80th anniversary of the incident which unleashed the Japanese Imperial Army to break off the entire northeast from the…
American Foreign Policy…

Obedient, Intransigent North Korea in the Chinese Media

22 Dec 201022 Dec 2010
Thanks to the ever-productive Joshua Stanton at the very useful but hopelessly Anglophone (and somewhat impervious) command post for North Korean counter-revolution known as One Free Korea, I got motivated…
Chinese communist party…

Manchurian Base Camp, Part III: The DPRK’s Northeastern Strategy

15 Sep 201015 Sep 2010
Manchurian Base Camp, Part I: In the 1930s Kim Il Song regarded Manchuria, or Northeast China, as an immense area into which to project anti-Japanese struggle and wherein he could…
North Korean border region…

Assassin Disinformation: Western and Chinese Media Parse the Defectors

24 Apr 201024 Apr 2010
In case you hadn't heard, two North Korean assassins were recently apprehended in South Korea on a mission to kill Hwang Jang Yop, the grizzled 87-year-old architect of the juche…
China…

Propagandizing Manchukuo

14 Mar 2010
In the mid-1930s, the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo was heavily promoted not just in Japan, but in England, the United States, and Germany.  Japanese businesses sought foreign investment in…
North Korea…

‘Don’t Confuse UN Sanctions with Normal Bilateral Trade Relations’: PRC Foreign Ministry on New North Korean Free Trade Zone

25 Feb 201025 Feb 2010
Today's Huanqiu Shibao headlines a statement made by PRC Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang regarding expansion of trade with North Korea.  I'll just go ahead and drop in the whole…
China…

Ian Johnson on Liaoning Manchus / 黄旗下的蛋 / 满族语在辽宁省

13 Dec 200914 Dec 2009
Ian Johnson of the Wall Street Journal, one of the most solid reporters working in China for the last decade and author of "Wild Grass" (a book which I reviewed…
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