If you had any doubts that the Chinese media campaign to convince its population that there are three threats to the stability of China (Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang) is working, let me dispel those notions. Recently I was chatting with a 20-something, highly-educated Chinese friend of mine about the Olympics. She said she was looking [...]
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If you want to realize just how scary the neocons are, then you might want to check out John Bolton’s piece in the LA Times in which he argues that the way to ensure peace in East Asia is for the US to recognize Taiwan diplomatically. He seems to think this would be the [...]
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During the Olympics “Chinese Taipei” will be represented by a group of athletes put in a terribly awkward position. On the one hand, they represent Taiwan, while on the other they most decidedly do not represent the “Republic of China,” which as everyone not in the Bush administration knows, does not exist. This begs the [...]
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Tonight I was watching a Chinese new show called ‘360.’ The broadcast was pretty interesting in that it went into a lot of detail about the recent Serbian election that seems to point toward Kosovo’s independence, and seems to take a deeper look at world issues. What the broadcast made me wonder is how China’s [...]
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