September 24, 2008
The Bush administration and Beijing are on the same wavelength responding to Pyongyang’s request of the IAEA to remove seals and surveillance equipment from Yongbyon. Beijing called for “flexibility”, and US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill downplayed the significance ...
go to article »September 19, 2008
September 17, 2008
Several bloggers here have asked that we start a discussion regarding which of the U.S. presidential candidates might be better for China - or at least, better for a solid U.S.-China relationship. While I am not quite ready to lead such a discussion yet, with the presidential debates still loomi...
go to article »September 2, 2008
September 1, 2008
LJ user olegpanfilov2 links (RUS) to a newspaper story (ENG) on Michael Lee White, a China-based U.S. citizen whose passport was allegedly stolen “during a flight from Moscow to New York” in Dec. 2005. Last week, “a Russian general […] displayed a blown-up photo” of the...
go to article »August 28, 2008
Two speakers in the American Democratic Convention attacked Saudi Arabia. That means we will see a real new Saudi era and a new equation in the Middle East. Hillary Clinton The biggest deficit in our nation’s history. Money borrowed from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis. Brian Schwe...
go to article »August 26, 2008
Although the violations I have in mind are not as grave as Georgia and Russia having violated the the sacred "Olympic truce"* they are still troubling.Today, China announced that every Chinese Olympic gold medalist would receive about US$ 50,000 from the state. Other countries also pay their medal...
go to article »August 22, 2008
While anticipating a question regarding China in Katie Couric's upcoming interview of American presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain, Out Of The Way blogger Ellaconic has instead opted to look toward India and a less-observed issue, and presents a lot of background which led up to t...
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Those thin-skinned cyber-mobsters must have heatstroke; Chinese coach leads US women's volleyball team to victory against China and gets dissed by a chess grandmaster, then: The majority of the netizens disagreed with his view. The American team led by Lang Ping was received with warm cheers of...
go to article »August 18, 2008
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