American Foreign Policy… Assessing U.S.-China Competition After the Hu Jintao Visit 25 Feb 201112 Mar 2011 What follows is a straight-up reading of Matthias Nass' op-ed in Die Zeit recalibrating the US-China relationship, with special reference to debt and national security, and Hu Jintao in Washington.…
American Foreign Policy… US-China Joint Patrols in Haiti 17 Feb 201021 Feb 2010 The small left-wing press in my current haunts of Seattle and Olympia have been scattering pamphlets decrying the militarization of the U.S. response to the humanitarian disaster in Haiti, but…
American Foreign Policy… Let’s Whip Us Up a Mob: No One Reads the Original Source 16 Feb 201017 Feb 2010 Bill Gertz, the classic "dragon-slayer" reporter for the Washington Times, has made a successful career out of emphasizing Chinese defensive buildups since the early 1990s. Gertz has a big audience…
American Foreign Policy… Stories 10 Feb 201010 Feb 2010 Everybody loves stories, facts mixed in with dangerous interpretive tinctures. But today is a day of no comment, of comet-less commas, of post-somatic traumas which embalm us with twisted tatoos…
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…
China… US-China Scuffles 2 Feb 2010 An outbreak of Korea-related materials have the present author slightly detained at the moment, but one can't help but notice the sharp deterioration of public rhetoric in the US-China relationship.…
American Foreign Policy… Notes on Chinese Espionage and Military Power 13 Sep 200916 Sep 2009 This morning the American HLN channel, an affiliate of CNN, reported on Chinese espionage conducted against the United States, particularly in the area of cyber-warfare. This report, while not yet…
American Foreign Policy… Uighurs in Guantanamo – Will Nine Go to Munich? 19 May 200924 May 2009 Hamburg's Die Zeit features a brace of editorials debating if Germany should accept the request of the Obama administration to take 9 of the 17 remaining Uighur detainees from Camp…
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