North Korea… Currency Vortex: China Blasts North Korea for Mercantile Chaos 2 Dec 2009 Recent days have been bleeding into one another, swiftly, with a kind of inexorable momentum that allows for little reflection of the past. Nowhere does this seem more true than…
North Korean border region… News and Background on Sino-Korean Relations 25 Aug 200925 Aug 2009 The South Korean satellite launch is getting short shrift in American media, but the PRC's Global Times gives it top billing. I think this indicates that China is, as it…
North Korea… Encountering the DPRK in Beijing 10 Aug 200910 Aug 2009 The North Korean embassy is set on a leafy walled campus in Beijing’s wicked and rambling Chaoyang district. It lies in close proximity to China’s Foreign Ministry, that grey monolith…
North Korea… North Korea as Barrier to China’s Great Power Aspirations 10 Aug 2009 Chuck Kraus at the Foreign Devil blog, excavating a provocative and accurate piece by Bonnie S. Glaser, parses the shifts in Chinese policy attitudes toward North Korea. After all the scrum over the (admittedly quite important)…
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