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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/15/2020
The World’s Most Important Body of Water
by Daniel Yergin
The author of a book on the dispute over control of the South China sea examines four critical decisionmakers whose actions shaped the present conflict.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/13/2020
Why Jimmy Lai and Hong Kong’s Democracy Advocates Need Biden’s Public Support Right Now
by Natan Sharansky
A former Soviet political prisoner and human rights advocate calls on the Biden transition team to make clear that the new president will not accept China's repression of democracy in Hong Kong.
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SOURCE: CNN
11/18/2020
Hong Kong's New Rules have Created Confusion in the Classroom. Some Parents are Pulling their Children Out
While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/8/2020
Seymour Topping, Former Times Journalist and Eyewitness to History, Dies at 98
"For Mr. Topping, known universally to colleagues as Top, the story was always about more than the day’s news developments, intriguing as they might be. It was about their historical significance, too."
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SOURCE: Rest of World
10/26/2020
Control, Alter, Delete:Hong Kong Activists and Academics are Hurrying to Digitize Historical Records
Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/28/2020
The forgotten alliance between Black activists and China
by Chang Che
Black activists have long leveraged American desires for international legitimacy to forge antiracist alliances with China. Today, the Black Lives Matter movement has received support from Beijing, but must consider the costs of an alliance with a regime with its own human rights issues.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/23/2020
Trump’s TikTok Deal Shows how Trade with China is Woven into the American DNA
by Sean Fraga
"Americans’ beliefs about the value of transpacific trade informed every aspect of the transcontinental railroads. This history shows how deeply trade with China is woven into the American fabric and suggests President Trump’s hostility toward China is unlikely to outlast his administration."
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
9/20/2020
Trump Wants $5 Billion From TikTok Deal for History Project
This announcement continues a Trump tradition of claiming other nations will pay for domestic culture war projects.
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SOURCE: Z Blogs
8/4/2020
China and the United States Could Avoid an Unnecessary War
by Lawrence Wittner
Both the Chinese and U.S. governments are engaging in reckless behavior that could lead to disaster.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
6/7/2020
Yes, America Is in a Cold War With China
"For too long the U.S. has looked the other way as the Chinese Communist Party has waged a new cold war against the American order," writes Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher.
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SOURCE: Business Insider
6/1/2020
Trump's Praise for China over Tiananmen Square Years ago was a Preview of his Support for Military Crackdowns on the George Floyd Protests
Donald Trump in a 1990 Playboy interview praised the Chinese government's crackdown, saying it avoided signalling weakness.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/1/2020
For the First Time in 30 Years, Hong Kong Will Not Hold a Mass Vigil Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The official reason given by police was to limit risk of Coronavirus transmission.
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6/2/2020
The Chinese Dream Imperiled
by Andrew Meyer
We are going to hear much in the near future about the dangers of Chinese ambition. World leaders would be well advised, however, to prepare for the dangers of internal Chinese instability.
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5/24/2020
Pandemic, Pandering and Prejudice: Trump's Effort to Weaponize Xenophobia
by James D. Zirin
Blaming China and threatening reprisals is not going to save any lives. It won’t open up the country any sooner. It won’t create a single job. But it might just get Trump re-elected--at least he thinks so.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/21/2020
Is This the End of Hong Kong?
Sweeping new laws, justified by claims for security amid political protests, threaten to eliminate independence from Beijing in Hong Kong's political and civil life.
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5/17/2020
Who Can Learn From Taiwan? Apparently not WHO
by Keith Clark
The World Health Organization is unable to effectively learn from Taiwan's response to COVID-19 because the agency adheres to a "One China" policy that doesn't recognize both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan.
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5/17/2020
Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future
by James Carter
The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other.
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SOURCE: Public Books
5/12/2020
Shanghai’s Past, Hong Kong’s Future
by James Carter and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The story of Hong Kong and Shanghai isn’t simply a defining story of the last two centuries of Chinese history. It is really the story of all world cities around the globe today: how they thrive and how they decline.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/10/2020
Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap?
by Rachel Esplin Odell and Stephen Wertheim
We stand on the brink of an even more destructive and less justifiable mistake than the post-Sept. 11 crusade.
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5/10/2020
The Real Thucydides Trap
by Waller R. Newell
Classical histories are in vogue as explanations for the Coronavirus-fueled tensions between the United States and China. A political science scholar argues that an influential theory gets Thucydides backwards.
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