French… China Media Review, 16 Feburary 2011 18 Feb 201120 Feb 2011 I took the day off from media reviewing, but thought that I might share yesterday's short video, which has stories about Xinjiang, Tibet, and American broadcasts into China. It runs…
American Foreign Policy… The “Ground Zero Mosque”: The View from China 31 Aug 2010 I spent about an hour yesterday at China's biggest mosque, which is located not in Beijing or Urumuqi, but in Xi'an, the hub of Shaanxi province and the gateway to…
China Sven Hedin and Owen Lattimore 29 Mar 201029 Mar 2010 Since I spent some time reading in explorer/scholar Owen Lattimore's letters today in the archive, and we're doing a bit of German-Japanese wartime ties research over here, it would be…
China The ‘Islamic Card’ in PRC ‘People’s Diplomacy’ 8 Mar 2010 I can't recommend highly enough this post by Chuck Kraus at the Foreign Devil blog, entitled Xinjiang, the PRC, and Egypt: The Curious Case of Ma Hanbing’s “The Nile River.” …
American Foreign Policy… Mizutani Naoko and Xinjiang Updates / 水谷尚子和新疆消息 2 Mar 20102 Mar 2010 As was described on this blog on Sunday, Japanese scholar Mizutani Naoko was barred from entering China on Feb. 27 on account of Chinese apprehension toward her activities in support…
Chinese communist party… Sino-Japanese Apprehension 28 Feb 201028 Feb 2010 At the Beijing airport, border security personnel yesterday refused the entry into the PRC of Japanese scholar Naoko Mizutani on the grounds that she was a supporter of Uighur indepdence. …
China… Rebiya Khadeer in Western Europe 14 Dec 200914 Dec 2009 Ribiya Khadeer may have been rejected from a visit to the isle of Taiwan, but she continues to move internationally and stir discussion of Chinese policies in Xinjiang. This past…
China Cultural Destruction in Kashgar [II] 4 Dec 2009 This summer I translated "Cultural Demolition in Kashgar," a French story from the dynamic Paris left-wing newspaper Liberation which attracted a wide number of readers via Danwei.org and ended up…
China… Chinese Foreign Ministry: Sweden’s Brazen Gambit Exposed to Interfere in China’s Internal Affairs 1 Dec 20092 Dec 2009 Sweden, a country that really knows a little something about assimilation of Turkic and Arab peoples, recently had the temerity to criticize the People's Republic of China for executing five…
North Korea Korea Weekend Reads [II] 15 Nov 200915 Nov 2009 Via Kushibo in Hawaii, Yonhap reports that Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is sponsoring almost $400,000 in radio broadcasts into North Korea, and announced this during Jack Lang's trip to Pyongyang,…
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