Books & Media

‘China Forum’ Interviews From ‘The U.S.-China Policy Foundation’

The U.S.-China Policy Foundation appears to be again ramping up its activities, especially, China Forum with its weekly interviews of top China experts. Excellent. Learn more about China Forum and the Foundation, below. Or go straight the ‘uscpf’s channel’ on YouTube for …

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‘CHINA Debate Daily’ On ‘paper.il’–Start Your Own!

We at CHINA Debate are sometimes suckers for testdriving new platforms. In that spirit, about five months again, we started CHINA Debate Daily using Paper.il With the press of other activities, I didn’t pay much attention. Every morning, I would open my email …

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‘Global Times’: CCP Attack Dog? How’s That Choke Chain Working?

Turn the South China Sea into a Sea of Fire? That’s what an op-ed in the Global Times proposed a few months. If you are a regular reader, such rhetoric won’t surprise you. So, how does the Global Times get …

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‘The Economist Channel’ On YouTube

While trolling around YouTube, I just came across The Economist Channel, published by The Economist magazine. Like the magazine, the posts do an excellent job of presenting issues in all areas in bitesize packages. These are presented on the Channel …

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Great Resources: ‘USC China Institute’ And’USC US-China Today’ Websites

The US-China Institute at the University of Southern California publishes serious analysis; quirky, offbeat stories; excellent documentaries and videos; and notices of upcoming events and exhibitions. In the more offbeat category, for example, just before I started writing this, I visited …

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Watch ‘China: Traditions and Transformations’ Free Harvard Online Course

Here’s a head’s up for China: Traditions and Transformations, an excellent 37 lecture Harvard course, online–and it’s free.  

‘Battle Of China’ WWII U.S. Army Special Service Division

The Japanese invaded China. The Chinese fought back. And the U.S. helped just a little. Here’s the story in a WWII U.S. Army propaganda film. Mostly accurate–and directed by Frank Capra, so very entertaining too. If you wondered why the …

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Breaking News: ‘Dear Leader’ Kim Jong-il Tells Rick Perry To Tone Down The Rhetoric

All right. This post is not about China. But for me it’s a two-fer. First, I get to put up my all time favorite Economist cover. I first saw this framed on the wall at  the Foreign Correspondents Club in …

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CIA China Operations: ‘Extraordinary Fidelity’ 20 Years In A Chinese Prison

When I joined CIA China Operations in 1980, many thought the early 1950s were the ‘Golden Age.’ Not so for the two CIA Officers captured in China in 1952 who would spend 20 years in a Chinese prison. The CIA-produced …

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‘China Forbidden News Channel’–Must Watch

‘China Forbidden News Channel’ on YouTube is must watch TV. Despite an anti-CCP bias, these slick, well-made news videos lay out crucial issues more sharply than any other source I have found.