GlobalTalk 21

On August 12, Genron NPO, a respectable Japanese advocacy thinktank, and the China Daily group released its annual report on its joint opin...

Damien Ma , a Eurasia Group analyst, interviews James Fallows on China Today . Fallows is one of the most thoughtful and graceful bloggers...

My dialogue with Mark the Techie continues: Why do you like Nakasone? And what do you think of his son, Hirofumi? The elder Nakasone had—st...

According to China blogger John Kennedy , “[f]amous Chinese sports writer and Bullog blogger Wang Xiaoshan has posted a dramatically-titled ...

Thomas Boswell sees the choice of “Lopez Lomong, one of the ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan who is a member of Team Darfur, to carry their colors” as ...

Actually, China Dumps Gold Medalists from Olympics “for Political Reasons” is just the headline from the Daily Telegraph report. DT star...

The Beijing correspondent for Yomiuri reports on June 4 that more than a hundred parents and relatives of the students who were killed whe...

Sophie* makes the point in her comment to this post that it could happen to other urban centers such as Tokyo with devastating effect. Let ...

Siegfried Knittel writes to remind me that “[China] allow[s] only rescue teams from neighbour countries to work in the area.” I wasn’t aware...

If you’re interested in this side issue, you’ve probably read this . Like the NYT report , it misses the political implications of the heav...

The New York Times chimes in with A Rescue in China, Uncensored , a very favorable “news analysis” ( NYT’s own words) on the Chinese gover...

Beyond the initial shock over the enormity of the blow and the growing horror at the rapidly rising death toll, what’s striking about the di...

I wrote the following off the top of my head, with no fact-checking. If you have any information or views regarding the matter, you are even...

Read it here . Making a show of boycotting the opening ceremonies is certainly counterproductive. Not to worry, though. The Australian Parli...

The poisoned Chinese dumplings imported from China are already having a serious effect on Chinese food exports to Japan. According to a repo...

The Japanese media are having a field day with the pesticide-laced Chinese dumplings. No wonder; it’s a great story. Food-related malfeasan...

CNN says in this news report that Miss Tibet took herself out of a beauty contest in Malaysia because the Chinese authorities put pressur...

The Chinese authorities were the first to complain when ballistic missile defense (BMD) came up as a possible option for the Japanese Self-D...

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I wondered why the Chinese products safety issue was not making much noise here. It turns out that it's the Chinese who are doing the c...