American Foreign Policy… George H.W. Bush in Mao’s China 1 Dec 20181 Dec 2018 With the death of George H.W. Bush, it is an opportune time to look back at his time as the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing in the immediate aftermath…
American Foreign Policy… Notes on Teaching the Nixon Visit to China 5 Dec 20155 Dec 2015 The Nixon visit was as clear a turning point as will ever arrive in diplomatic history, involving two of the world’s most important nations. The Nixon visit is a prism…
China… Cold War Analysis of Chinese History 14 Oct 2012 Includes interviews with Pearl S. Buck and Theodore White, plenty of Orientalism (the music score is a treatise itself in stereotypes and aural affects) and such gems as describing Shanxi…
American Foreign Policy… Regarding an American “Objectivist Foreign Policy”: Rand, Romney, Feigenbaum, Huntsman, and US-China Relations 13 Sep 2012 In the aftermath of events in Benghazi (the background of which Professor Juan Cole pins down like a butterfly, and the interpretation of which is covered ably by Diplopundit), and…
Chinese nationalism… Huntsman in Global Times Terrain, and Republican Foreign Policy 23 Nov 201123 Nov 2011 Mainly for the hell of it, I recently spent $4 (about 26 RMB) on a big red "Jon Huntsman for President 2012" bumper sticker. It arrived in my mailbox, and…
American Foreign Policy… Yuanhai Fangwei [远海防卫]: Observing China’s Navy 25 Aug 2011 Back in the American defense belt of Orange County, I'm reading Kissinger and reflecting on the extensive annual report to Congress from the Pentagon regarding Chinese military capabilities. The full…
American Foreign Policy… A Little Musical Diplomacy 20 Jul 201121 Jul 2011 China is presently thundering its way into some heavily-historically-documented commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the PLA's arrival in Tibet, while at the same time bringing the rhetorical hammer down…
American Foreign Policy… Henry Kissinger “On China,” and at the Opera 16 May 201116 May 2011 The ever-prolix Henry Kissinger has a new book on U.S.-China relations forthcoming, entitled On China. Advance copies reviewed here by the New York Times; Kissinger is interviewed by NPR here.…
American Foreign Policy… Trashing Diplomatic Etiquette, or Just Empty Cannon Shots? Huanqiu Shibao Weighs in on Clinton’s ‘Fool’s Errand’ Comment 16 May 201116 May 2011 There has been an immense amount of action which has occurred in the U.S.-China relation in the past week, actions about which, being on several "fool's errands" of my own,…
American Foreign Policy… Three Recent Speeches on U.S.-China Relations 9 May 2011 Jon Huntsman, U.S. Ambassador to the PRC, delivers the Oksenberg-Barnett Lecture in Shanghai, 6 April 2011, sponsored by the NCUSCR (National Committee on U.S.-China Relations): Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary…
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