China

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/21/2022
  

  Biden's Taiwan Rhetoric Risks Antagonizing China For No Gain

  by Stephen Wertheim

  The United States' "One China" policy is ambivalent, awkward and dissatisfying. But it's served to prevent a destructive war for decades. Biden's recent comments threaten to destabilize the arrangement. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/25/2022
  

  Biden's Remarks on Taiwan are Potentially Dangerous Provocation to China

  by Stephen Wertheim

  In itself, Biden's statement about defending Taiwan doesn't raise any possibilities that the Chinese military hasn't already considered. But it does threaten the American posture of "strategic ambiguity" that underlies diplomatic discussions. 

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• 5/8/2022
  

  How Will History Remember Xi?

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  Despite China's growth as an economic and military force, Xi Jinping's authoritarian government may ultimately be seen as a drag on the nation's prosperity and the flourishing of the Chinese population. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  5/1/2022
  

  The Democratic Potential of China's Grassroots Intellectuals

  by Sebastian Veg

  Chinese intellectuals working outside the protection of state-controlled universites have a perilous existence, but carry on the struggle against the regime's efforts to impose orthodoxy on the nation's history. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  5/1/2022
  

  The Xi Era Demands New Ways of Understanding China

  by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  This is the introductory essay to a special issue on contemporary China. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/19/2022
  

  How China's Nuclear Arms Buildup Will Make a Tripolar World, and What it Means for Peace

  by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

  "There is nothing the United States can do to prevent China from joining it and Russia as the world’s top nuclear powers, but there are things that U.S. strategists and defense planners can do to mitigate the consequences."

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  3/21/2022
  

  Alfred McCoy: Ukraine War May Birth New World Order

  The historian of international relations predicts that the Ukraine invasion and NATO's response will have the effect of tying Russia and China together in an alliance that will reshape the dynamics of international relations, trade, and military power. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/9/2022
  

  Is Ukraine Another Turning Point in Russia-China Relations?

  Although a close alliance would allow both China and Russia to overcome American influence in the world, this alone has never been sufficient to align the two nations. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2/24/2022
  

  China Digs Its Own Grave (and Ours, Too)

  by Alfred McCoy

  History is a poor tool for predicting how the post-fossil fuel world will be organized. But it's clear that a successful world order will have to be based in acknowledging the climate crisis. 

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  2/24/2022
  

  Weaponizing Accusations of Racism to Squash Political Criticism of China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Two recent incidents show the dangers of allowing a foreign government to leverage college speech and bias codes to squelch criticism, and the need for administrators to understand the difference. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/14/2022
  

  The Public Will be the Ultimate Judge of Whether the Olympics Soften China's Image

  by Michael J. Socolow

  China is doing all it can to use the winter games as a statement of its belonging in the world community. It will be up to the viewers to ask critical questions about the media coverage and spectacle. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  A Tale of Two Olympics: Changed China in a Changed World

  by Joe Renouard

  Since the 2008 Beijing games, the People's Republic of China's vastly increased global economic power and the COVID pandemic have changed the core narrative around the current winter games. It remains to be seen whether the Olympics will signal a turn back to openness or the intransigence of a confident world power. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/4/2022
  

  Will the Diplomatic Boycott of the Olympics Have any Effect on China?

  by Meghan Herwig

  After Tiananmen Square, it became clear that American foreign policy was limited by other Asian nation's growing dependence on China. Today, as regional relations shift, will a more effective human rights advocacy be possible? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/13/2022
  

  None Dare Call it "Encirclement"

  by Michael Klare

  While the Pentagon won't use the term, American military policy is clearly aiming at surrounding China to reduce its influence in Asia. This revival of Cold War-era geopolitics is a dangerous provocation. 

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• 12/19/2021
  

  Journalism is Under Siege in Hong Kong

  by Luwei Rose Luqiu

  The Hong Kong government's increasingly confrontational response to critical journalism is a troubling indicator of a willingness to engage in authoritarian restrictions of the press in the name of national security. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/3/2021
  

  The US Must Not Repeat the Error of Allowing at Totalitarian Regime to Use the Olympics for PR

  by Rafael Medoff

  Despite the famed victories of sprinter Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympics were a victory for Hitler, polishing his regime's image as concerns rose about the persecution of Jews. Amid Chinese persecution of Uyghurs, the US should reconsider participation.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  11/29/2021
  

  Can Cold War History Help Stop a Disastrous US-China Conflict?

  by Li Chen and Odd Arne Westad

  The emerging superpower rivalry between the US and China is not exactly like the Cold War, and simplistic historical analogies are a poor strategic guide. But Cold War history does offer examples of potential pitfalls. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/2/2021
  

  In China, Illegal to Mock National Heroes

  Since March, a new law has been used at least 15 times to prosecute Chinese who "slander" heroes of the Communist Party's official historical narrative. Experts attribute the crackdown to the fact that slowed economic growth no longer guarantees the party's widespread legitimacy.

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Imagine a World Remade by US-China Cooperation

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The world has everything to gain from remaking the US-China relationship around cooperative approaches to global problems. Will Xi and Biden follow the example of Reagan and Gorbachev? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/12/2021
  

  The Winner in Afghanistan? China

  by Alfred McCoy

  While the similarities between the American exits from Vietnam and Afghanistan are superficially obvious, the differences are more significant, and signal a steep decline in America's ability to influence world affairs.