Tag Archives: Chinese economy

Global Food Fight: The U.S. vs. China, Round II.

Chinese and U.S. food supplies have become interlinked. Here I draw on personal experience and recent research to discuss this issue… Continue reading

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Peaceful Evolution in China and the World Wide Web: Part II, Factionalism and Democracy

Here we argue that because the Chinese system contains an element also common to the American one, factionalism, it will inevitably evolve under the impact of the Internet to become more democratic in practice. However, it will not necessarily become more similar to the American system. Continue reading

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Peaceful Evolution in China and the WWW: Part III, China’s Emerging Leadership

Factionalism in Chinese leadership and its possible impacts on Chinese democracy and their relationship to the World Wide Web Continue reading

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Peaceful Evolution in China and the World Wide Web. Part IV: The Internet as the Bulwark of Chinese Democracy?

This is the fourth and concluding piece in a series, “Peaceful Evolution in China and the World Wide Web”. We argue here that important changes are occurring in China, and that due in large part to the Internet as a conduit for Chinese popular voices, democratic interests will be much strengthened in this new era. Continue reading

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Holder charges Chinese military with stealing digital data

The U.S. Department of Justice has taken the unprecedented step of indicting Chinese military officers with stealing American intellectual property. The charges are perhaps true. The problem with them is that they charge China with doing what we now know to be standard American practice: the state sponsored gathering of digital data not only for intelligence purposes but also for economic advantage. Continue reading

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Learning from the Chinese riots in Cangnan

On April 20th, a highly respected Hong Kong paper, the South China Morning Post, reported that there had been major riots in Cangnan county in Zhejiang province, not far from the major city Wenzhou. The riot, it was said, was caused by local police officials who, it was rumored, had beaten a local man to death when he attempted to interfere with them. But the widely varying reports on the incident suggest that we do well not to jump too quickly to conclusions about events, particularly those found in relatively isolated areas in China, which are rapidly reported on the WWW. Continue reading

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Why Many Chinese Distrust the West: The 18th,19th, and early 20th Centuries

I am arguing here that the Chinese as a culture have a very distinctive view of the nature and the purpose of “History” with a capital H, and that there is much in the history of their relations with the West, particularly with the U.S., to cause any reasonable individual or group of individuals to be easily alarmed or suspicious. Continue reading

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Oregon, Tibet, and the China Trade

A discussion of the recent proclamation in Portland of “Tibetan Awareness Day” in Portand, Oregon. Continue reading

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Why some Chinese do not like us: The Problem

An introduction to a series of posts on some of the underlying sources of tensions in Sino-American relations which relate to public attitudes in each country… Continue reading

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A New China policy and the Taiwan Card…

Here I consider the abrupt changes in U.S. policy toward China—from “our Chinese Friends” to “hey, take that China!” in less than six weeks. And what about Taiwan??? Continue reading

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