North Korea North Korean Refugee Event (Portland) 17 Mar 2010 Junghee Lee, a professor of art history at Portland State University, let me know about a North Korea-related event which may be of interest to readers in the Northwest USA:…
Chinese communist party… Portland-Tibet Update 15 Mar 2010 On March 11, the English-language China Daily contained an editorial upbraiding the city of Portland for its "Tibet Awareness Day." Suffice it to say that while China Daily has recently…
Chinese communist party… Wen Jiabao: America Offends China with Dalai Lama and Arms Sales to Taiwan 14 Mar 201014 Mar 2010 Today Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gave press conference in the Great Hall of the People. A question from an AFP reporter got him focused on US-China relations. Although I haven't…
Chinese communist party… China to U.S. Cities: Hoist the Tibetan Flag, Lose N.B.A. Broadcast Rights in China 12 Mar 201012 Mar 2010 American mayors, human rights activists, and N.B.A. fans take note: A recent decision by the Portland City Council to declare March 10 "Tibet Awareness Day" is making big waves in…
Chinese nationalism Huanqiu Netizens Sound Off on the City of Portland 11 Mar 201011 Mar 2010 As of 5:07 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, it seems this story (described in a post below) has picked up 318 comments on the Huanqiu BBS alone. How nice to know…
Chinese nationalism… Portland, Tibet, and “Meddling in Internal Affairs” 10 Mar 201026 Dec 2015 The city of Portland, Oregon, is known as an aspiring utopia and somewhat left-wing city enamored of coffee, bicycles, religious tolerance and sustainable living. It is, at least as cities…
