Josh Rudolph

Josh Rudolph finished an MA in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at UBC's Institute of Asian Research in 2013. He currently lives in British Columbia.

“Grandpa Confucius, Please Come Home”

As Weibo commentators criticize the massive amount of government money being spent on Confucius Institutes, a party mechanism for spreading Chinese soft-power around the globe via Chinese language training and cultural...

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Building US-China Relations by Banjo

Back in February, TED featured a talk by Abigail Washburn, a sinophile and musician (in that successive order) with a unique method for fostering healthy international relations. In the TED Talk, Washburn tells the story of how...

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China’s Game of Thrones

Since the beginning of this year, high-level corruption in the Chinese system has been the global glare of publicity – an uncommon occurrence due to the secretive lives of China’s top brass. In his latest piece for...

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Tibetan Woman Torches Herself

Yet another Tibetan has set fire to herself in Aba county, Sichuan. According to Radio Free Asia’s count, the young woman is the 38th Tibetan to self-immolate in protest of Beijing’s Tibet policies: Rikyo, a...

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Expansion and Iran on Table at SCO Summit

From June 6-7, China will be hosting the 2012 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing. The SCO is an international mutual-security organization thought by some to be a collective attempt to counter NATO and...

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