Embracing Human Rights, Disarming the U.S.
In a blog post translated at The Diplomat, Yang Hengjun writes that China should not let...
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LatestHow the US and China Learned to Live With Each Other
At The Atlantic, Matt Schiavenza surveys the dynamic 60-year relationship between Beijing and...
An Elizabethan Cyberwar
As the U.S. and China trade accusations as to who is the real cyber assailant, Cold War tropes have become commonplace in describing digital dispute between Beijing and Washington. From then Secretary of State Clinton’s...
Cybersecurity and the New Cold War
The effects of an Internet attack could rival those of a nuclear bomb, according to a Chinese general at a briefing with the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in Beijing on Monday. From Bloomberg News: With the Internet...
Korea in Chinese History: Stuck in the Middle
While China’s role in the stand-off on the Korean peninsula is generally viewed in terms of recent Cold War history, Jeremiah Jenne explains at The Economist’s Banyan blog that it also has much older and deeper...
U.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?
In the latest installment of China File’s Conversations series, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew J. Nathan and Orville Schell respond to Nina Hachigian’s recommendations to new U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. In a...
China and North Korea: No War, No Instability, No Nukes
Following North Korea’s third nuclear test, John Garnaut of the Age writes that if people in the West are expecting China to take a strong stand against the development of Pyongyang’s nuclear program, they will be...
China Focus Comes at a Cost for Germany
Following chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Beijing last week, Judy Dempsey warns at The New York Times that Germany’s booming trade with China may be a double-edged sword: As the crisis drags down most European...
Forum: A Cold War With China?
The New York Times’ Room for Debate forum asks a panel of experts whether recent flashpoints in Sino-U.S. relations, including the escape of Chen Guangcheng and diplomatic brinksmanship in the South China Sea, indicate an...
Cold War, BRICs and Why 9/11 Doesn't Matter
A Century Weekly editorial at Caixin online cites Niall Ferguson’s argument that 11/9 (1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall) is more definitive of our times than 9/11, and argues that the rise of the BRIC nations outweighs...
Video: BBC World Service’s Last Mandarin Transmission
BBC producer Dawn Trump has posted a short video feature (in Chinese) on the World Service’s last Mandarin transmission on March 25. The video includes the last few moments of the final broadcast: The government argument...
Inside a Secret Chinese Classroom
From Asia Times: The 1950s in Britain was a decade of post-war reconstruction, growing prosperity and conscription, when some 2.5 million young men had to do their “national service” in the name of queen and country....
Haiyan Lee: Brought to You by the People’s Republic of The Onion
Haiyan Lee, a professor of Chinese literature and civilization at Stanford University wrote the following essay. Originally published on The China Beat (currently GFWed), and republished on the Shanghaiist blog: For better or...
Chaos Under Heaven – Louis Menand
From a lengthy essay by Louis Menand in the New Yorker reviewing Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World:
MacMillan’s book is a clearly written,
Ideology? Don’t you believe it – Dmitry Shlapentokh
From Asia Times:
This is a good, well-researched book. It could have been even better if the author, apparently carried away by the fascinating materials he displays in his narrative,
