Chinese communist party… Kim Jong Il in the Chinese Mainland Press 4 May 2010 Fresh from a session with Bruce Cumings at the University of Washington (more on his speech tomorrow, including photographs), I'm posting a few links to dispel the notion that Kim…
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…
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…
American Foreign Policy… The Correspondent and His Typewriter: Keyes Beech in Northeast Asia in the 1950s 19 Aug 20091 Sep 2009 Foreign correspondents in East Asia in the late 1940s and early 1950s were a wild and wonderful bunch, but few were more incisive or entertaining than Keyes Beech. Perhaps because…
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…
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