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The New York Times reports on the five Uighur men who are currently living in a government refugee camp in Albania after being released from Guantanamo Bay detention center when the U.S. government found they “pose no threat”: The men, Muslims from western China’s Uighur ethnic minority, were freed from their confinement in Cuba after […]
Read MoreIn The Nation, Rick Perlstein writes a lengthy essay about U.S.-China relations through the lens of three recent books on the topic: The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression by James Mann; Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan; and Washington’s China: The National Security World, the […]
Read MoreOn his blog, Richard Spencer writes: When I examined closely, there were two groups: it seemed that those studying anything related to politics – international relations, etc – discussed 6-4 rather openly; those who didn’t, didn’t. I guess, and would be interested in confirmation, that the idea is that if you have to represent China […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune, Howard French, the current Shanghai bureau chief for the New York Times who used to report from Africa, writes about how China is overtaking France as the colonial power in much of Africa: There was a time, not long ago, when virtually every car on the street in France’s cloistered […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices: The distinct 2.0ness with which an unprecedented environmental protest was carried out last week in southern China’s seaside Xiamen city seems to have resulted, as of June 7, in the service of two websites key to the exclusive blog coverage of the event being disrupted: Bullog.cn, where live updates from the streets […]
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