Karen Sutter, "China’s View of Its Economic Sphere of Influence, Economic Security, and Trading Networks" strategicspace.nbr.org/chinas-view-of…

My thoughts on the going/not going to China these days question (I’m not going but glad friends and colleagues are) insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

A collection: Damage caused by the collapse of China's Banqiao Dam in 1975 everydaylifeinmaoistchina.org/2024/09/03/a-c…

China's propaganda system does not contribute to responsive authoritarianism by collecting grassroots information but instead prioritizes making public discourse accord with party-state standards & norms about what a healthy and clean society should be. tandfonline.com/eprint/CIFZMXN…

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The racist "dog"-whistle always feels personal. My stepfather L.Y. Chow came to the U.S. in the 1940s for school, and found himself unable to return home due to war. He stayed, and started a new life teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School in CA, because he was told that 1/2

You are talking about this book by John Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, right? I am remember reading it and thinking how can this be published? It is such horrible scholarship. It gets basic historical facts absolutely wrong. amazon.com/How-States-Thi…

What it looks like if you make a phone call with the newly launched open Huawei Trifold phone😂

Dept. of History at Georgetown University invites applications for tenure-track position in the History of China before 1800. Candidates whose interests include regions adjacent or related to China (e.g. NE, SE, Central Asia) encouraged to apply. See: apply.interfolio.com/154103

China's young generation flipped from being one of the most optimistic to one of the most depressed in a few years' time. For good reason.

Another key element of images of imperial Japan is that Japanese are often not just in western clothing, but in military uniform as militarism was at the core of the Japanese empire.

Taiwanese participation in the UN would be a historic shift

In 1922, early Party leader Li Lisan wrote the stirring slogan of the Anyuan strike: “Once beasts of burden, now we will be men!” Over a century later, the death of a delivery driver inspires a similar call — but now in lament. chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/09/poem-o…

China never had a Cold War by Jane Hayward youtu.be/OB_8NL64J00?si…

TBH, these changes to China's retirement age are far from adequate for addressing the challenges facing China's retirement system. I am surprised that the differential retirement ages for men and women are largely left intact. China is raising its retirement age, now among the

New Tariff Rules Could Reverse a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Retail nytimes.com/2024/09/14/bus…

China’s industrial output and retail sales faltered in August as the economy lost momentum, adding to expectations Beijing will step up stimulus efforts in the final months of the year. ft.com/content/ddf3c2…

I asked the latest OpenAI o1 if Taiwan is part of China

Um, this just isn't true. China had the Ministry of Public Security. The best history we have of its early years is Michael Schoenhals "Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967" amazon.com/Spying-People-…