12/01/2024 No. 210   链接中文版 Home | Photos | Articles & Comments | Books & Writings | Music | Contact Us | Links Articles & Comments War, inflation and wokeism return Trump to White House By David P Goldman December 1, 2024 75 reads Donald Trump’s projected victory in Pennsylvania with 95% of the state’s vote counted assures his reelection to the presidency, marking the most remarkable political comeback in American history. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How China Convinced 1.5 Billion People To Speak A Single Language - The Entire History of Mandarin By Soppy Frog Productions December 1, 2024 28 reads Much of the Western world looks at China and says, yeah, a billion people speaking a Chinese dialect. What's the big deal? Well, the reality is that convincing that many people in their own native lands to speak a foreign language is not an easy task. Today, China has over 300 spoken dialects and languages, and an unknown number of that are long gone extinct. Come take a look at how this came to be. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Anti-Immigrant Movement in the United States By Selena Rincon December 1, 2024 25 reads Opposition to immigration (and immigrants) has become an important issue all over the world. In the United States, there is a long history of anti-immigrant sentiments that have affected Irish, Chinese, Mexican, and many more communities. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China and the West: commercial pragmatism versus political resistance By Kari McKern November 1, 2024 201 reads Calvin Coolidge once remarked, “From a business perspective, the reasoning is straightforward: China delivers.” Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory stands as a testament to this, producing hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles annually. Chinese firms like BYD and CATL lead in renewable energy and electric vehicle sectors, illustrating how partnerships with China are driven by practical needs rather than ideology. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Clarifying copyright for AI-generated works is vital By Wong Kam-Fai November 1, 2024 79 reads The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), is having a profound impact on various creative fields. GenAI can produce not just static creations like text, comics and paintings but also dynamic works such as songs and videos. The advent of GenAI has emerged as a fabulously productive tool for the creative industry. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Kishore Mahbubani: China’s ‘wiser’ long-term strategy paves way to No. 1 world power By Dewey Sim November 1, 2024 54 reads You’ve predicted that the geopolitical contest between the US and China is set to intensify and stretch beyond the next decade. However, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan just visited China and a call between Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden is expected soon. Are these exchanges a signal that things are looking up? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The perils and promise of the emerging multipolar world By Jeffrey D. Sachs October 1, 2024 227 reads The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the West in industrialisation are now making up for lost time. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Is there any chance the U.S. elections will lead to better relations with China? By Colin Mackerras October 1, 2024 93 reads Kamala Harris has just announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running-mate. We know that Biden was, if anything, even more anti-China than Trump and has made it clear on multiple occasions that he wants to block China’s rise for fear that it will disrupt the American number 1 spot in the global order. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 As China celebrates Deng Xiaoping’s legacy, the country is again at a crossroads By Chow Chung-yan,Jane Cai and William Zheng October 1, 2024 113 reads As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth, the Post examines his legacy across generations. In the first of a three-part series, we look at Deng’s continuing resonance with the ruling Communist Party’s leadership. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Living Through Revolutionary Times By The Aspen Institute September 1, 2024 270 reads Revolutions in technology, politics and economics bring progress — but they also invite backlash. Fareed Zakaria discusses the rise of the modern republic through the Industrial Revolution to the age of globalization, and the reemergence of great power politics. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Read history, talk peace By Francesca Beddie September 1, 2024 126 reads The US policy of isolating Russia is not only perpetuating the war in Ukraine, it is also nurturing new alliances between Russia, China and much of the ‘global south’ that threaten to further exacerbate tensions across the world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Crisis in the West, opportunity for the rest? By Walden Bello September 1, 2024 171 reads Whether we call it “polycrisis,” like Columbia University Professor Adam Tooze, or “the age of catastrophe,” like the distinguished Marxist Alex Callinicos, there is no doubt that we are living in a period where the very foundations of the contemporary world order are cracking. There is that enigmatic line Gramsci used to describe his era that is also appropriate for ours: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” 【Full Story】 【Comments】 If China became a democracy, would it still be rejected by the West? By Chandran Nair August 1, 2024 292 reads Over the last few years, I have wondered about what drives the relentless Western animosity towards China. It seems a very logical question to ask if one wants to understand the world today. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Made In China Only: China Looks Domestically For Growth But Will It Succeed? | Insight By CNA Insider August 1, 2024 162 reads President Xi Jinping wants Chinese consumers to spend their way to growth, buying up domestically made goods. At the same time, the government will invest more in “New Productive Forces” – A.I, Green Tech and Advanced Computing - all for the goal of moving up the value chain and shedding China’s reliance on foreign technology. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 George Yeo offers a compelling narrative on the resilience & enduring legacy of Chinese civilization By Australian Talk Show Club August 1, 2024 206 reads George Yeo Yong-Boon, a distinguished former Foreign Minister of Singapore, offers a compelling narrative on the resilience and enduring legacy of Chinese civilization. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Asian-Chinese Studies: a glance back at more hopeful days By Colin Mackerras July 1, 2024 278 reads The disgraceful current state of Asian studies in general and Chinese studies in particular suggests a glance back at the mid-1970s to the early 2000s, when the situation was, if not always greater in a numerical sense, at least much more productive, enthusiastic and forward-looking, and generally much more hopeful. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 In Every Way, China Is More Than the U.S. Can Handle By George Koo July 1, 2024 187 reads The Biden Administration’s style of international diplomacy has been reduced to simply making loud demands and carrying a wiffleball bat. In the case with China, it’s “if you do not do this or that we will punish you in ways to be specified later.” 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Southeast Asia, China, and the Belt and Road Initiative: Still going strong? By Guanie Lim July 1, 2024 254 reads Relations between great powers and their neighbouring regions are often fraught. The cases of the United States and Latin America, or the European Union and North Africa, come to mind. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 This is the way the West ends By Adriel Kasonta June 1, 2024 326 reads With the United States entangled in conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and the threat of a war with China looming large,Professor Michael Brenner's insights and views on the state of the US-led liberal order are arguably as timely and important as ever. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 America bombs while China builds By Richard Cullen June 1, 2024 233 reads Let’s examine the origin and nature of the broad global footprints of America and China which are evident across the world today. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 George Koo on Taiwan Island History, Part 1 &2 By Veterans for Peace with China June 1, 2024 223 reads George Koo completes his talk on the Taiwan island situation. In Part 2 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Our life support systems of climate, water and ecological services are in collective crisis By David Shearman May 1, 2024 292 reads The continuing decline of the life support system of ecosystem services and biodiversity is a crisis needing urgent, collective action. At stake is food production and many other benefits for health and life itself. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The West has lost the will for peace By Jeff Rich May 1, 2024 210 reads And what about an enduring peace that balances interests of all concerned? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Do immigrants help or hurt the US economy? The answer might surprise you. By Stephen Humphries May 1, 2024 218 reads Are immigrants a boon to the U.S. economy or a drag on it? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why the West sees China as a threat By Teow Loon Ti April 1, 2024 323 reads Since the late 15th Century until the mid-20th Century the West, through its technological and hence military superiority has been able to project to the rest of the world the image of a rich, militarily powerful and far better educated civilisation. The rest of the world were quite easily subjugated with few exceptions through colonisation and the conscious projection of the image of superiority. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Podcast: The Tragedy of Gaza By John Menadue and Margaret Reynolds April 1, 2024 237 reads John Menadue, Editor-in-Chief of Pearls and Irritations interviews former Australian Senator Margaret Reynolds on the role of the United Nations, Australian foreign policy and the tragedy unfolding in Gaza. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Stable Sino-US ties need of the hour By Zhang Wenzong April 1, 2024 213 reads This year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. Over the years, the two countries have experienced various forms of engagement, cooperation and competition, leading to evolving mutual understanding. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 ‘We’re being sold a false choice on war’ By Sue Wareham March 1, 2024 392 reads Australia has just taken another step, as part of the AUKUS agreement with the US and the UK, that is leading us towards an event that should be unthinkable – involvement in a major war against China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Towards an unliveable planet: Climate's 2023 annus horribilis By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop March 1, 2024 249 reads The heat and extreme climate records of 2023 shocked scientists. So where are we heading? Given current trends, the world will zoom past 2°C of warming and the Paris climate goal of limiting warming to 1.5-2°C 【Full Story】 【Comments】 America on autopilot to self-inflicted destruction By George Koo March 1, 2024 230 reads At a recent hearing in the US Senate, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas apparently had trouble understanding that a citizen of Singapore can look like a Chinese, talk like a Chinese and yet not be a member of the Communist Party of China. In Cotton’s questioning of Chew Shou Zi, the chief executive of TikTok, even the fact that Chew’s wife and children are American citizens seemed suspicious to him. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why isn’t China a Democracy? By John F. Coppe February 1, 2024 349 reads U.S. President Joe Biden, the Western media, and American academics seek to rally Western democracies against China, allegedly the leader of the world’s authoritarian countries. They charged that China is not democratic. Is this charge true? How so? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 American Exceptionalism: Inequality in the US and Why It Matters By Tim Koechlin February 1, 2024 253 reads The United States is, by every reasonable measure, the most unequal of the world’s rich countries and, for more than four decades, it’s been getting worse. After too many years of inaction and complicity, a growing number of Democrats seem to get it. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Want to live longer? Influence your genes By Michael F. Roizen February 1, 2024 236 reads Take a moment to visualize your favorite place in the world that requires you to walk up an incline. Maybe it’s the Spanish Steps in Rome or the Potala Palace in Tibet. Or maybe it’s a serene hill in your local park. Or the top row of your favorite team’s stadium. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Will BRI change the world as much as the old Silk Road did? By Joshua Cheung January 1, 2024 346 reads THE ORIGINAL SILK ROAD quietly crept into existence over many years, but ended up transforming much of the world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Henry Kissinger has died. The titan of US foreign policy changed the world, for better or worse By Lester Munson January 1, 2024 241 reads Henry Kissinger was the ultimate champion of the United States?foreign policy battles. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Doctors Without Borders Tells Key UN Body to Stop 'Absolute Horror' in Gaza By Jake Johnson January 1, 2024 261 reads The international president of Doctors Without Borders on Monday pleaded with members of the United Nations Security Council to do everything in their power to halt the Israeli military's expanding assault on the Gaza Strip, which has killed爉ore than 15,000 people爄n less than two months and decimated the territory's healthcare system. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Biden-Xi in a Helf-Hearted Rapprochement By William Pesek December 1, 2023 351 reads The polite way to characterize Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping is that it cleared a rather low expectations bar but failed to achieve any new heights for the globe’s most important relationship. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 ‘Clash of civilizations’ not inevitable in Sino-US ties By Andrew KP Leung December 1, 2023 273 reads The “Clash of Civilizations” thesis was first proposed by American political scientist Samuel Huntington in a 1992 lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. In response to his former student Francis Fukuyama’s much-acclaimed book of the same year 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Political scientist Ian Bremmer on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict By Big Think December 1, 2023 252 reads What’s happening in Gaza and why? And how did we get here? Political scientist Ian Bremmer joins Big Think’s Editor-in-Chief, Robert Chapman-Smith, to discuss the historical and political context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 “Containing China” is Making America Weaker | George Koo Interview By Cyrus Janssen November 1, 2022 391 reads The US wants to contain China. Is it possible? Can the US decouple from America? I welcome George Koo, an expert on US/China relations to share his thoughts on these important questions. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Lee Kuan Yew’s unique legacy: Lessons in leadership and humility By Christopher Tang November 1, 2023 312 reads Many buildings in countless university campuses in most parts of the world are named after wealthy donors, especially in Hong Kong and Singapore. However, the former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) wanted his house demolished. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Two-Thirds of American Voters Want US to Back Cease-Fire in Gaza By Jake Johnson November 1, 2023 309 reads Most members of the U.S. Congress have thus far refused to support a cease-fire in Gaza as Israel's siege and airstrikes inflict horrific damage on the occupied territory. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Contrasting trends in military recruitment between the U.S. and China By Henry Chan October 1, 2023 368 reads The US and China are at the forefront of new AI-imbued military technology development, and are the world’s undoubted leading military powers. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 World would benefit if the West were open to greater scientific collaboration By Quentin Parker October 1, 2023 263 reads The joint 4th World Photonics Conference and 12th Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC) 2023 meeting was held last month at the China National Convention Center within Beijing Olympic Park. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Will US use Taiwan to start a proxy war? By Lau Siu-kai October 1, 2023 310 reads Many commentators define the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a proxy war instigated by the United States against Russia. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 We need an Earth System Treaty to save civilisation. And we need it now By Julian Cribb September 1, 2023 388 reads At present the Earth system is breaking down, due to爐en massive threats爐hat are the direct result of human activity, our excessive numbers, over-consumption and over-pollution. There is no universal plan to prevent and reverse such a catastrophic event ?or even talks on a world agreement to do so. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 CLUB LUNCH - "A Lunch with Former Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo" By The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong September 1, 2023 290 reads Musings presents a collection of conversations between former Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo and writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Slow, Bumpy Road of U.S.-China Diplomacy By Paul Heer September 1, 2023 316 reads Washington should be looking for ways to draw Beijing into a serious pursuit of peaceful coexistence—as cooperative as it is competitive—rather than a diplomatic game of recrimination and one-upmanship. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Competing with the US and the West for discourse power By Lau Siu-kai August 1, 2023 361 reads For a long time in the future, in the increasingly fierce and implacable competition between China on one side and the United States and the West on the other, the competition for global discourse power will be the decisive battlefield between them. And who can defeat the enemy on this battlefield will determine to a considerable extent which country will be the final winner in this strategic game related to the world’s future. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The United States faces a critical choice By Kishore Mahbubani August 1, 2023 320 reads Washington today lacks “sophisticated, long-term thinking on geopolitical issues,” said Kishore Mahbubani, Singaporean political scientist and distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 VOX - The true story behind Oppenheimer's atomic test - and how it just might have ended the world By Kelsey Piper August 1, 2023 304 reads In one trailer Oppenheimer, the movie about the making of the atomic bomb releasing on Friday, Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) asks Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy): "are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button we destroy the world?" 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think | Ian Bremmer | TED By TED July 1, 2023 452 reads Who runs the world? Political scientist Ian Bremmer argues it's not as simple as it used to be. With some eye-opening questions about the nature of leadership, he asks us to consider the impact of the evolving global order and our choices as participants in the future of democracy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Biden’s contrasting styles and priorities: The Biden administration has concentrated virtually all its efforts on keeping China from rising, to no avail By George Koo July 1, 2023 326 reads For weeks, US President Joe Biden publicly demanded that the issue of raising the debt ceiling was a done deal and not negotiable. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Coexistence: The only realist path to peace By Stephen M. Walt July 1, 2023 325 reads The United States and its Asian partners want to maintain a balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, ostensibly to prevent China from becoming a “regional hegemon” there. They worry that Beijing will gradually persuade its neighbours to distance themselves from the United States, accept Chinese primacy, and defer to Beijing’s wishes on key foreign policy issues. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New war tech — changing winners and losers By Henry Chan June 1, 2023 387 reads NEW technologies in the industrial revolution era changed the military power equation. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Jeffrey Sachs on China's "Historic" Push for Multipolar World to End U.S. Domination By Democracy Now! June 1, 2023 307 reads China is taking an increasingly assertive role in world affairs, helping to broker a restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What does it mean for India to overtake China? By George Koo June 1, 2023 328 reads As India is about to overtake China to become the most populous in the world, The New York Times promises a future series of articles speculating on how India might change the world as China has in the last 40-plus years. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 We are being seduced into war again by the US, this time over Taiwan By John Menadu May 1, 2023 437 reads After Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan the signs of our entrapment again in US war planning are everywhere. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 George Koo on the Historic Significance of the Xi-Putin Summit & impact on changing New World Order By Activist News Network May 1, 2023 359 reads On March 25, 2023, Dr. George Koo joins the show to discuss the Historic Significance of the Xi-Putin Summit & the impact on changing New World Order. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Henry Chan: Adieu to Modern Monetary Theory--Ending Illusory Unlimited Government Q.E. Power Takes Skill and Luck By Henry Chan May 1, 2023 347 reads The September financial market worldwide experienced one of the most volatile months since the Covid lockdown of March 2020. The U.S. dollar exchange rate surged more than 5% based on DXY, and the S&P index dropped more than 5% until September 27. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Saudi-Iran deal marks China’s role as global power broker: Historic pact won’t bring peace to Middle East but does herald China’s emergence as region’s dominant external actor By Simon Mabon April 1, 2023 438 reads After more than four decades as seemingly implacable enemies on either side of a deep political-religious divide in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to restore diplomatic relations and reopen embassies. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Breaking up is hard to do: US-China trade and investment grow despite tensions By Yuhan Zhang April 1, 2023 382 reads The talk is of decoupling, but the figures and expansion plans by McDonald’s, Starbucks and Ralph Lauren tell a different story. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Ukraine may embrace China’s peace plan: Recent private conference of top US foreign policy experts saw Ukraine at risk of losing a war of attrition despite West’s best efforts By Spengler April 1, 2023 403 reads A gloomy assessment of Ukraine’s prospects for victory against Russia emerged from a recent private gathering of former top US soldiers, intelligence officials and scholars with resumes reaching from the Reagan to the Trump administrations. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An inflection point in US trade policy: From Trump to Biden, America’s view on free trade is shifting fundamental in the name of national and supply chain security By William Reinsch March 1, 2023 455 reads December 2022 highlighted how much US trade policy has changed in recent years. It is tempting to blame the changes on former US president Donald Trump, whose protectionist views were strongly held and clearly stated. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 East is east, West is west: China and the West are not ‘competitors’ By Teow Loon Ti March 1, 2023 368 reads The idea among the Chinese that rulers must have high moral standards and care for the people date from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 – 256 BCE). The Chinese understood it as a “Mandate of Heaven”. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why ‘decoupling’ is a fatally flawed concept: The US and Chinese economies rely on each other, and the people of both nations are the beneficiaries By George Koo March 1, 2023 385 reads A recent issue of Bloomberg Businessweek said, "Despite the heated national-security rhetoric in Washington and talk of 'decoupling' in policy circles, the world's top two economies remain firmly intertwined." The article goes on to say that bilateral trade between the US and China for year ending 2022 is likely to be the highest ever recorded. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Can China lead the way on climate reparations? By David Shearman February 1, 2023 393 reads Currently many poor nations are suffering unprecedented floods and storms with thousands homeless, displaced and with their annual crops destroyed. They die from starvation and infections. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Where are China-U.S. relations going? Must watch interview By Jeffrey Sachs and Wang Guan February 1, 2023 389 reads Jeffrey Sachs, director at the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, shares his views with CGTN anchor Wang Guan in an extract reproduced below 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Robotic upside to China’s demographic decline: By Scott Foster February 1, 2023 435 reads China’s population has started to decline and this has set off a Pavlovian negative reaction – via the news media – of the sort that we have seen before in the case of Japan. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Taiwan backs Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson in push for peace with Beijing By Gregory Clark January 1, 2023 463 reads Remarkably, the winner in the key election for the Taiwan capital, Taipei, was none other than Chiang Wan-an, the great grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeated KMT leader in 1949. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Jiang Zemin propelled China’s economic rise:He left his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed By Edward Cunningham January 1, 2023 410 reads By the summer of 1989, a series of problems threatened China’s stability. Soaring inflation was undermining the economy at home while the violent suppression of Tiananmen Square demonstrations had left it largely a pariah state abroad. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What the US nuclear fusion ‘breakthrough’ actually means: For now, result means more to the scientific community than it probably does for those pining for a new commercial electricity alternative By Nathan Garland January 1, 2023 400 reads For the first time, scientists in the US have confirmed a fusion energy experiment achieved net gain. This means releasing more energy than it takes to initiate, demonstrating the physical basis for producing fusion energy in a controlled way. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 We are witnessing the start of a gigantic schism between China and the West By BEN MARLOW December 1, 2022 417 reads Apple is no stranger to smartphone problems. Customer complaints range from a frozen screen to a quick battery drain 【Full Story】 【Comments】 American World Order in Trouble - 10 Recent News: Events around the globe portend the dramatic weakening of American hegemony By S. L. Kanthan December 1, 2022 480 reads Geopolitics is undergoing tectonic changes, which augur an emerging new world order that will be extremely disruptive to the American unipolar hegemony of the last thirty years. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Biden’s next two years look bleak: The Democratic Party has survived, but the White House remains mired in a failed foreign policy By George Koo December 1, 2022 457 reads Despite going into the midterm elections with under 40% popular approval, US President Joe Biden appears to have survived the outcome, avoiding the mortal wound historically associated with a lame duck in the White House. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 “Containing China” is Making America Weaker | George Koo Interview By Cyrus Janssen November 1, 2022 448 reads The US wants to contain China. Is it possible? Can the US decouple from America? I welcome George Koo, an expert on US/China relations to share his thoughts on these important questions. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Defence Strategic Review: The US Taiwan Policy Act would be a game-changing act of provocation By Mike Scrafton November 1, 2022 444 reads The Australian government, perhaps initially through the DSR, must explain clearly to the Australian public what cost it is prepared to pay as a tool of American policy, or how it intends to maintain its sovereignty and ensure the security and safety of Australians. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China chip ban a US exercise in extreme self-harm By David P. Goldman November 1, 2022 530 reads NEW YORK – The Biden administration’s unprecedented package of bans on chip and chip equipment sales to China announced on October 7 could not have come at a worse moment for the global semiconductor industry. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Is China Expansionist? By Kishore Mahbubani October 1, 2022 474 reads China’s emergence as a great power has prompted many fears that it will start to become aggressive and militaristic. But while European powers have acted this way historically, China’s own long history tells us that it wields power in a very different manner. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Race to hike rates guarantees global recession By William Pesek October 1, 2022 488 reads TOKYO -- Punchbowls everywhere are becoming endangered species as central bankers scramble to yank them away with increasing urgency. Nowhere more so than here in Asia. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How to save the global free trade order: US-China trade war has greatly undermined the rules-based international trading system for narrow political purposes By Shujiro Urata October 1, 2022 489 reads The world faces unprecedented and difficult challenges, including US-China rivalry, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and supply chain disruptions. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Is the West Triumphant Again? By Kishore Mahbubani September 1, 2022 457 reads Even if the Russian invasion of Ukraine fails completely, the West will still have to deal with a messy world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Questions arise as global economy faces transition By Michael Spence September 1, 2022 480 reads Recent conversations about the global economy and markets have been defined by a set of recurring questions. While there are many moving parts that are difficult to capture in a single clear picture, it is worth attempting to bring some of the biggest issues into better focus. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Damage from Pelosi's Asia tour awaits final tally: Besides worsening US and Taiwanese relations with China, her trip made the semiconductor conundrum even more complicated By George Koo September 1, 2022 483 reads Nancy Pelosi came and left. Some in Taiwan called her visit a part of her graduation trip. A tad condescending, perhaps, but they meant it was her last hurrah. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Russia, China, and the Battle for Global Dominance (Video) By Catherine Ashton, Robert Kagan, Kishore Mahbubani, and Ivo Daalder August 1, 2022 516 reads Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s economic and military rise signify the emergence of a new geopolitical order. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Super-strong dollar imperils world economy By Alexander Tziamalis and Yuan Wang August 1, 2022 502 reads The US dollar has been on a major surge against major global currencies in the past year, recently hitting levels not seen in 20 years. It has gained 15% against the British pound, 16% against the euro and 23% against the Japanese yen. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Where to next for the human world? By Bob Douglas August 1, 2022 541 reads Our new government is facing a profoundly difficult and complex world situation,with a string of ten catastrophic threats that are bearing down on humans everywhere. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Biden loses the inflation blame game By David P. Goldman July 1, 2022 550 reads There’s no inflation, and if there is inflation it’s temporary and it’s the fault of greedy oil companies or the fault of Vladimir Putin. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Truth Behind Racist Attacks On Asian-Americans By John F. Copper July 1, 2022 506 reads Recently the incidences of racist attacks on Asians in the U.S. have noticeably increased. Why has this happened? Who is responsible? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Weighing America’s ‘repivot’ away from Asia By Andrew Salmon July 1, 2022 539 reads SEOUL – US President Joe Biden last week wrapped up the first Asia tour of his administration with trips to South Korea and Japan, where pro-US governments in both Seoul and Tokyo staunchly reiterated their commitment to their American alliances. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 West vs Russia: reaching point of no return By Adriel Kasonta June 1, 2022 531 reads Economist, academic, author and former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts shares his views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and whether the so far contained conflict may escalate and spread further into Europe, translating into a direct clash between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Huge barriers confront EU’s exit from Russian gas By Andrew Salmon June 1, 2022 523 reads European policymakers’ vow to cut the EU’s dependence on Russian gas by two-thirds this year is feasible, but will be “painful and costly,” said one analyst. While the EU’s dependence on Russian energy imports has been pointed out as a black hole in the West’s sanctions regime – if not outright hypocrisy – the war itself is ironically working as a kind of balancing factor. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Henry Kissinger says Taiwan cannot be at the core of negotiations between the U.S. and China By Sam Meredith June 1, 2022 555 reads Veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger says Washington and Beijing must seek to avoid putting Taiwan at the center of their tense diplomatic relationship. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How the war in Ukraine could change history: A political scientist on why the fate of the global political order hangs in the balance By Sean Illing May 1, 2022 525 reads Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a world-historical event and the effects of it will likely ripple out for years to come. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Difficulty Of Being A Perfect Asian American By Daniel Shaw May 1, 2022 570 reads College admissions makes people do strange things. This was one of the takeaways of the Varsity Blues scandal, in 2019, which uncovered an admissions consultant and a network of coaches and administrators who helped wealthy and famous families essentially bribe their way into selective colleges. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer By The University of Chicago May 1, 2022 629 reads John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The West can accept China’s wealth but not its power By Howard Debenham April 1, 2022 545 reads Why is the West so determined to demonise China? Sure, it may have driven a lot of tough business and trade deals and, sure, it may be competing for influence among the world’s poorest nations — but which rich and powerful nation hasn’t? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Western sanctions on Russia are like none the world has seen: But they may weaken the system they are meant to defend By The Economist April 1, 2022 551 reads America and its allies now face the question of how much further to go with sanctions on Russia, and when. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Putin Needs an Off-Ramp By Tom McTague April 1, 2022 584 reads The question for world leaders is how to ensure the Russian president is defeated while nevertheless providing him with a route out of the crisis. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Get out of the Ukraine mess and avoid nuclear war By Stephen Bryen March 1, 2022 567 reads Beyond all the rhetoric, and the sanctions, Washington had better clear its head and start to think straight. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Xi Jinping and China's Role in a Shifting World - Live Stream By KAS Media Programme Asia March 1, 2022 762 reads The event "Xi Jinping and China's Role in a Shifting World" was live-streamed on the KAS Media Programme Asia's facebook and youtube channels on 22nd of November 2021, 5:00 PM to 7:20 PM SGT. Stefan Aust and Prof. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Did the First Americans Arrive via Land Bridge? This Geneticist Says No. By Jeremy DeSilva March 1, 2022 616 reads It’s Anthropology 101. At the end of the last ice age, around 13,000 years ago, retreating glaciers created an inland corridor connecting Siberia to the Americas. People from northeast Asia crossed the Bering Strait land bridge and entered a new world. From there 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A long march: China's unfinished business on Taiwan reunification By Teow Loon Ti February 1, 2022 699 reads The issue of Taiwan and China reunification has been narrated from a geopolitical perspective, and most arguments do not adequately address the sensitivities of the issue. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Richard Osman: Why visiting China has changed my view of the world By Richard Osman February 1, 2022 612 reads Visiting China didn’t just change the way I look at China – it changed the way I look at the whole world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 “Noblesse Oblige”: Pearl Buck’s Platonic Conception of Self By Jennie Wang February 1, 2022 748 reads If the Nobel Prize was her crown, after her rise to fame, Pearl Buck did not fail her ―noblesse oblige‖—her social responsibility and public duty, as a writer and public figure on the world stage, guest of the White House, speaker on public mass media, editor and publisher in literary circles, and philanthropist in social welfare. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China trade: the disturbing gap between US rhetoric and reality is emerging By James Laurenceson January 1, 2022 639 reads Almost as soon as Beijing launched a campaign of trade punishment against Australia in May 2020, the instinct of many in Canberra was to reach for support from the US, our “great and powerful friend”. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Will Democracy Summit lead to collaboration or conflict? By George Koo January 1, 2022 641 reads As the self-anointed leader of the “free” world, US President Joe Biden has called a “Summit for Democracy” to take place this week, and leaders of around 110 countries have accepted the invitation to attend – not all rated highly by the Freedom House index, known for measuring countries for their democratic practices. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Has Washington's Policy Toward Taiwan Crossed the Rubicon? By Paul Heer January 1, 2022 679 reads The ground shifted under Washington's policy toward Taiwan on December 8, a shift no less seismic for being subtle and semantic. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China, Taiwan and the US: the real terms of the deal By Gregory Clark December 1, 2021 717 reads The US and China established full diplomatic relations in 1979, but that year the US Congress wrote its own script for Taiwan. Today, what the Chinese side interprets as word games by the US may wreak deadly consequences. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Most SHOCKING Street Reactions of Foreigners living in CHINA! By Ychina November 1, 2021 675 reads Thanks for following us all these years! Without your supports, we couldn't believe we can make this far! 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Finding paths through a bumpy world: Something more tangible must be on the table for the United States and China to perceive commonality of interest By David P. Goldman November 1, 2021 677 reads “Consensus or conflict?” is a hard question to ask in the midst of a trade and technology war between the US and China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Thoughts on regional geopolitics By Chinese Community Council of Australia November 1, 2021 719 reads The pivoting of American interest from the Middle East to Asia initiated by Obama, has seen the geopolitics playground shifted to the South China Sea. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives:The enormous costs and elusive benefits of the war on terror By Dylan Matthews October 1, 2021 679 reads The “war on terror” is a purposely vague term. President Barack Obama famously rejected it in a 2013 speech — favoring instead “a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists.” 【Full Story】 【Comments】 There are much greater threats to Australian security than the Chinese military By Dennis Altman October 1, 2021 749 reads There is something oddly outdated in the images of Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison beaming together over the inauguration of the AUKUS partnership. To many people in the region this must look like a return to the colonial era, a reprisal of the “white man’s burden” in face of a rapidly shifting balance of power. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 With US democracy under threat from within, AUKUS puts Australia in danger By Lucy Hamilton October 1, 2021 792 reads With the AUKUS treaty, Australia may have hitched its fate to a nation soon to be led by people who make Trump seem competent. Britain and Australia's democracies are under threat; America's future is in dire peril. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Xinjiang: what the West doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror By Weijian Shan June 1, 2021 1242 reads In 2002, the US and the UN both declared a Uygur militant group a terrorist organisation. The US then considered China a partner in the war on terror. When the Trump administration delisted the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, it allowed the West to frame China’s anti-terror measures as ethnic persecution. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Was Trump Right or Wrong on China? Biden’s Answer Will Shape the Future By Kishore Mahbubani May 1, 2021 849 reads THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION that US President Joe Biden’s administration needs to ask in formulating its China policy is a simple one: was Donald Trump right or wrong on China? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China Doesn't Respect Us Anymore — for Good Reason: We've stopped following our formula for success By Thomas L. Friedman May 1, 2021 809 reads Sometimes a comedian cuts through foreign policy issues better than any diplomat. Bill Maher did that the other week with an epic rant on U.S.-China relations, nailing the most troubling contrast between the two countries: China can still get big things done. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The US risks forcing China’s hand on Taiwan By Wang Xiangwei May 1, 2021 745 reads The US has in recent weeks increased its official contact with Taipei and ramped up activities in the Taiwan Strait. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 American overreach in Anchorage points to conflict with China By Hugh White April 1, 2021 880 reads America’s new Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, seemed surprised by the tough talk from his Chinese counterparts when they met in Anchorage last week. He shouldn’t have been, because they were responding in an entirely predictable way to his words just moments before. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 For Asian-Americans, Atlanta shooting sows fresh fear after a year of mounting discrimination By Rich McKay and Gabriella Borter April 1, 2021 806 reads Before the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, Kyung Cho noticed people sometimes gave him odd looks or asked if he spoke English. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US-China struggle is unlike the old Cold War By MK Bhadrakumar April 1, 2021 802 reads America's sense of crisis vis-a-vis China stems from its fundamental decline in comprehensive competitiveness. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Can the US-China relationship ever go back to the pre-Donald Trump days? By Shi Jiangtao and Jane Cai August 1, 2020 742 reads Observers are pessimistic about where bilateral ties are headed after this week’s escalation of tensions. Beijing and Washington have entered their most unpredictable period since the 1970s. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An open letter to the president of the United States By Grenville Cross August 1, 2020 767 reads In these very difficult times, people of goodwill around the world, including in Hong Kong, will wish you well as you try to guide the United States back to normality. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 West’s criticism of national security law exposes its own flawed system of ‘liberal democracy’ By Dabing Li August 1, 2020 751 reads US leaders have been quick to bash China rather than cure their own ills, from record numbers of Covid-19 infections to high unemployment and fiscal profligacy. The national security law has now become a convenient scapegoat. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why US-China decoupling is a dangerous mistake and tantamount to self-harm By David Dodwell July 1, 2020 923 reads The World Bank expects Covid-19 to impact commodities like oil and platinum, and even the Opec cartel itself. Its report shows how central China is to commodity trade, and why the US would inflict more harm on itself by decoupling 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Columbus statue beheaded amid anti-racism protests By Agence France Presse July 1, 2020 837 reads and another was dragged into a lake earlier in the week in Richmond, Virginia, according to local reports. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 In the US, China-bashing is rooted in myths of Western superiority By Martin Powers July 1, 2020 900 reads Across the centuries, Europe propagated anti-Chinese stereotypes as a response to the perceived threats to European might. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 COVID-19 has taught us the oneness of the world By Ronald Ng June 1, 2020 839 reads The first public report on the novel coronavirus infection in China was the report of "unusual pneumonia" in Wuhan, Hubei province, at the end of December. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US coronavirus lawsuits pick at the scabs of China’s ‘century of humiliation’ By James V. Wertsch June 1, 2020 836 reads The emotional scars of the opium wars and bullying by colonial powers resonate among ordinary Chinese in a way the West does not fully appreciate. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 THE ATLANTIC - We Are Living in a Failed State. The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken. By George Packer June 1, 2020 917 reads When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 When Is It Safe To Ease Social Distancing? Here's What One Model Says For Each State By Nurith Aizenman May 1, 2020 902 reads Across the U.S., state leaders are grappling with the challenging decision of when to relax the social distancing restrictions that have helped keep COVID-19 in check. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings With Stuff They Can Find at Home, Here Are The Results By Getty Museum May 1, 2020 809 reads Even though most of us are stuck at home during Coronavirus quarantine and can’t go out and enjoy art in museums, that doesn’t mean that life has to be boring or uncultured. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The W.H.O. chief said politicizing the virus would lead to “many more body bags” By New York Times May 1, 2020 815 reads The World Health Organization’s director general rebuked officials around the world, following President Trump’s comments attacking the W.H.O. and China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China in a New Era of Global Disruptions (including Covid-19 pandemic) By Andrew K P Leung April 1, 2020 890 reads A presentation made by Dr. Andrew K P Leung to a Joint Meeting of the EGN Founding Chairmen’ Group and the CEO Pioneers Group 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China Bought the West Time. The West Squandered It. By Ian Johnson April 1, 2020 10044 reads Why did so many countries watch the epidemic unfold for weeks as though it was none of their concern? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Coronavirus: to save US lives, Trump must learn from China, not fight it By Wang Xiangwei April 1, 2020 842 reads China bungled its initial response, but its experience in turning the tide against Covid-19 holds valuable lessons for other countries. Now is the time for Trump and Xi to forget tit-for-tat squabbles and pick up the telephone. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Are we overreacting to the coronavirus threat and merely creating bigger risks down the road? By Josef Gregory Mahoney March 1, 2020 1006 reads For a virus with a lower fatality rate than peak flu season in the US, millions are being quarantined, borders closed, flights cut and economic and political costs are mounting. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Coronavirus fight is between species, not countries – we need science and solidarity to beat it By Swee Kheng Khor March 1, 2020 919 reads This current outbreak will burn itself out eventually, but it isn’t the first and won’t be the last that our world has to face. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Inside Coronavirus affected Beijing By Nathan Rich March 1, 2020 879 reads Team Hotpot’s Video on Beijing’s livelihood 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The seven trends that will define China in the 2020s By Andrew Leung February 1, 2020 965 reads What can the world expect from China in this new decade? Besides US-China tension, slower Chinese economic growth, vertical integration and the tilt towards Chinese domestic consumption are all likely to have an effect on the rest of the world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 FOREIGN POLICY - China’s Year in 10 Charts: The political and economic trends that shaped China this year By James Palmer February 1, 2020 898 reads We take a look back at 2019 in terms of popular mobilization, trade, and other economic indicators. From the ebb and flow of Hong Kong's protests to China's growing economic elite, here are 10 trends that shaped the news in China this year. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Five things that aren't in the US-China deal... and why By Karishma Vaswani February 1, 2020 902 reads The US and China have finally - after almost two years of hostilities - signed a "phase one" deal. But it only covers the easier aspects of their difficult relationship, and only removes some of the tariffs. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China is yin, America is yang, and they need each other more than Trump knows By Hong Hai January 1, 2020 951 reads China and the US can avoid a clash of civilisations if they can grasp the idea that they need to restrain, support and balance each other. Without the support and restraining influence of either country, the global order cannot last. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US-China decoupling is more rhetoric than fact -- for now: Technology barriers are going up, but economic relationship is deep and complex By Kevin Rudd January 1, 2020 931 reads The casual, nonchalant and, for some at least, apparently satisfying deployment of the term "decoupling" to describe the current trajectory of the U.S.-China relationship reminds us of the classical wisdom that in foreign policy, words are bullets. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 3 things the West gets wrong about Chinese Millennials | Zak Dychtwald | TEDxQingboSt By Zak Dychtwald December 1, 2019 1246 reads Most often when Westerners look at China they look at one of two things: either a big, "Communist" government, which we find scary, or a rising, robust macro-economy, which we find exciting. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US passing Hong Kong human rights and democracy act will only ‘punish the wrong people’: ex-Trump envoy Susan Thornton By John Power December 1, 2019 1068 reads Susan Thornton, formerly America’s most senior diplomat in East Asia, says the bill is a ‘huge mistake’ and reflects misconceptions in the US about China’s rise 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Singaporeans don’t back Hong Kong protests By Joshua Lok December 1, 2019 966 reads With a similar colonial past, territorial size and economic success, Singapore and Hong Kong serve as mutual yardsticks for progress and remain competitors at the forefront of the Asia-Pacific region. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New Money: The Greatest Wealth Creation Event in History (2019) - Full Documentary By Stansberry Research November 1, 2019 2006 reads Why is one misunderstood nation now the source of more millionaires and billionaires than anywhere else on earth? And why does America’s mainstream press ignore this story? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An alternative view of HK protests By George Koo November 1, 2019 1026 reads In reporting the Hong Kong protest movement, the Western media have represented hoodlums as heroes and hooliganism as a movement for democracy. The rioters beat up on innocent bystanders, attacked police with gasoline bombs and sharpened metal rods, destroyed government buildings and metro stations, and interrupted the operations of the international airport. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US and China set on ‘decoupling’ amid their clash of civilisations, Singapore Forbes forum told By Dewey Sim November 1, 2019 1076 reads Economists and business leaders warn that a ‘phase one deal’ on trade is only a short-term truce and masks a deeper transition for the world economy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Can Trump keep the US stock market bubble from popping as the world economy slows? By Andy Xie October 1, 2019 1030 reads The US president has so far managed to keep the market buoyant by offering economic hope to calm nerves. As China’s economy continues to slow, and more multinationals begin to feel the pain, the tipping point may not be too far off. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Explainer: How important is Hong Kong to the rest of China? By Noah Sin October 1, 2019 945 reads HONG KONG (Reuters) - Concerns over Hong Kong's political and economic future are growing as pro-democracy protests drag on and turn increasingly violent, and China makes clear that forceful intervention is possible. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Beijing is making Hong Kong’s property tycoons sweat bricks – it was long overdue By Yonden Lhatoo October 1, 2019 1080 reads Yonden Lhatoo says the writing has been on the wall for a while, but developers who control the city’s housing market have now been put on notice that enough is enough. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Self-Destruction of American Power:Washington Squandered the Unipolar Moment By Fareed Zakaria September 1, 2019 1183 reads Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of sorts. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Trade wars part two – The empire strikes back - ASIA TIMES By David P. Goldman September 1, 2019 896 reads The escalating conflict between China and the US will likely be long and debilitating. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Beijing’s non-Tiananmen response: build up Shenzhen, forget Hong Kong By Alex Lo September 1, 2019 959 reads In the near future, unless it changes course, Hong Kong will be more unsafe and unstable, while Shenzhen will be less unfree and more prosperous. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An Update on the U. S. - China Trade War By Yung-Sheng Cha August 1, 2019 965 reads The trade war between U. S. and China has been going on for more than a year. There was no deal or agreement after several rounds of negotiations. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Harsh truths for Hong Kong: extradition bill protests will not achieve anything By Bilahari Kausikan Bilahari Kausikan 1170 reads Retired Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan says Beijing will never tolerate any action that undermines national unity and the extradition bill formalises ‘one country, two systems’. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Confusion and Uncertainty Cloud US-China Trade Truce By Anita Inder Singh August 1, 2019 927 reads US President Donald Trump called a truce to the US-China trade and technology war at the G-20 summit which was held in Osaka from 28 to 29 June, 2019. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Donald Trump’s Huawei crackdown could hit Trump country hardest By POLITICO July 1, 2019 956 reads Small, rural US wireless providers fear the president's approach could result in big costs. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The grave threat to US civilisation is not China, but climate change By Robert Delaney July 1, 2019 1117 reads For its own profit, the Trump administration wants to downplay the challenge of global warming, and flooding the media with dire warnings about China is one way to distract voters. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Hong Kong needs radical social and economic reform. Let’s start with breaking up the property cartel By Cheah Cheng Hye July 1, 2019 979 reads Even if Carrie Lam were to quit as chief executive, the anger that led to the mass protests would not die down as long as the local economy is run by cartels, especially in the housing sector. Shock therapy is urgently needed. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Has the West Lost It? A Conversation with Kishore Mahbubani By Kishore Mahbubani June 1, 2019 1066 reads Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani believes that while the political freedoms in China haven't increased, the personal freedoms of the Chinese people have. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A new kind of cold war: How to manage the growing rivalry between America and a rising China By Frank Ofili June 1, 2019 1289 reads Fighting over trade is not the half of it. The United States and China are contesting every domain, from semiconductors to submarines and from blockbuster films to lunar exploration. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Donald Trump is wrong. The US economy is not strong enough to win cold war 2.0 By Stephen S. Roach May 1, 2019 1223 reads While the US prevailed in the cold war with the Soviet Union, its economy is in a much weaker position today. Both the US and China should resolve their own economic imbalances and then work together to preserve the post-war world order. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 America’s latest ‘red scare’ is overblown. China is not intent on world domination By Tom Plate May 1, 2019 1070 reads The US Committee on the Present Danger focusing on China misreads the Communist Party’s intentions. While China will seek to dominate transnational sectors it sees as essential to its survival, conquering the world would be too much trouble. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Can the US win the new cold war with China? Not without risking a nuclear war By Hugh White April 1, 2019 1117 reads This is a terrific, thought-provoking, eye-opening article by Hugh White. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 For countries around the world, China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ has more pros than cons By SCMP Editorial April 1, 2019 1052 reads Despite American opposition to the ambitious global trade plan, China should be viewed as a partner, not a rival. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The dangerous absurdity of America’s trade wars By Jeffrey D Sachs April 1, 2019 1083 reads Don Quixote fought windmills. US President Donald Trump fights trade deficits. Both battles are absurd, but at least Quixote’s was tinged with idealism. Trump’s is drenched in enraged ignorance. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China urges US to accept others' technology progress By Xinhua March 1, 2019 1178 reads BEIJING – China on Thursday called on the US to adopt an open and inclusive mindset regarding technological development and progress of other countries. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why pick on Huawei when all advanced technologies, including those from the US, carry security risks? By Peter Kammerer March 1, 2019 1148 reads Peter Kammerer says people who worry about being spied on should open their eyes to the many Western tech innovations now ubiquitous in their lives. By fueling mistrust, Trump is impeding scientific cooperation critical to social progress. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The US is waging war on Chinese hi-tech, but it can’t thwart Beijing’s ambitions on its own By Joergen Oerstroem Moeller March 1, 2019 1071 reads The United States is shifting the battleground for global power from money, finance and trade to technology. This approach poses serious risks for global trade and investment. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US and China: From Co-Evolution to Decoupling - YALE GLOBAL ONLINE By Vincent Ni February 1, 2019 1150 reads As China's economy steadily grows, its relationship with the United States has transformed from cooperative co-evolution to decoupling. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 America should worry about an existential threat, and it’s not China By Vasilis Trigkas February 1, 2019 1013 reads Vasilis Trigkas says China today is grappling with many complex problems it has yet to solve, and that will undercut any hegemonic aspirations it may have. US fears of a ‘Chinese invasion’ is a reminder of its paranoia about the Soviet Union during the cold war. Washington should look elsewhere for what ails it. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why China is too important a market for foreign companies to exit, especially as Chinese innovation takes off By Edward Tse January 1, 2019 1025 reads Edward Tse says multinational companies are realising that they cannot ignore Chinese innovation and must embrace China-specific strategies. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 If Trump abandons globalism, American interests will suffer 'irreparable harm' – CNBC By Frederick Kempe January 1, 2019 995 reads If Trump abandons globalism, American interests will suffer 'irreparable harm' 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How could the global economy crash? Let us count the ways By Andy Xie January 1, 2019 1071 reads Andy Xie says the stock sell-off in the US and elsewhere and the sharp decline in property prices all add up to more debt trouble at a time when debt is already sky-high. A repeat of the global financial crisis of a decade ago seems certain 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Beipanjiang Bridge: China’s impossible engineering feat – BBC By BBC December 1, 2018 1335 reads The Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above remote south-west mountains in China, took decades to construct and has revolutionized bridge-building around the world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Capitalism Versus State Capitalism By Yung-Sheng Cha December 1, 2018 1097 reads Several experts wrote about the "Thucydides Trap" in which a rising power is challenging a ruling power. In twelve of the sixteen cases in history, it ended in bloodshed. This time they are referring to the rivalry between China (a rising power) and the U. S. (a ruling power). The question often asked is: can a military confrontation between China and the U. S. be avoided? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 From rank outsider to mayor of Kaohsiung: meet the man who wooed Taiwan’s electorate By Lawrence Chung December 1, 2018 1065 reads Han Kuo-yu was considered to have no chance when he was named as the Kuomintang’s candidate, but his bold promises and clever use of social media saw him home. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US-China tensions: is war the endgame in the South China Sea? By Collin Koh November 1, 2018 1183 reads A close encounter between a Chinese destroyer and the USS Decatur may have been an attempt by Beijing to keep tensions from crossing into an outright armed confrontation for which neither side is ready. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Are Trump's trade wars good, and easy to win? By Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2018 1159 reads US President Donald Trump described China as a strategic "competitor" in his national security strategy released in December 2017. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 So long American Empire? By Peter Chung Chieh November 1, 2018 1081 reads I wrote Aftershocks in 2017 for the China-US-Friendship website before the inauguration of Trump to the Oval Office because I share the feeling of many, and wish to offer some comfort for those who felt the same way I did. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Does Trump Have a Strategy to Run the US? Yes, But... Mainstream and Organic Views By Ifay Chang October 1, 2018 1237 reads Donald Trump was an unusual Presidential candidate. His campaign style was unusual, combative, rude, impromptu and rash in presentation. His tweets were also unusual, but he was successful in getting millions of followers and created a new political fad, now adopted by many politicians. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Trade War By Yung-Sheng Cha October 1, 2018 1048 reads It looks like Trump is determined to start a trade war with China. Similarly, China does not appear to back down from the threat of an all-out trade war with the U. S. It is difficult to predict what is going to happen because Trump is unpredictable and he is changing the goalposts all along the way. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Never mind the trade war, this is how China and the US can both get what they want By Andrew Leung September 1, 2018 1185 reads The US'concerns about China aren't just shared by other countries, they also align with the mainland's own goals for its future. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 AmCham: US firms plan to increase investment in China By Agencies September 1, 2018 1386 reads SHANGHAI – US companies operating in China have said they plan to increase investment there in 2018, signaling that optimism about the business outlook is offsetting rising trade tensions, a survey showed on Thursday. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Is Thucydides Trap between the U.S. and China avoidable? By S. B. Woo August 1, 2018 1454 reads The following is the outline of a PowerPoint Presentation made by Dr. S. B. Woo to about 130 Americans including 3 retired generals, one from each service, and many former CIA officers on Feb. 2, 2018.   He spoke for himself only. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 This Sino-US battle is about much more than just trade By Daniel De Blocq Van Scheltinga August 1, 2018 1229 reads This trade war is not just about trade, which would be easy to fix, but about the geopolitical and economic rise of China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 ‘America First’ policy undermining American soft power By ejinsight July 1, 2018 1345 reads Ever since Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the United States has been withdrawing from several international agreements and groups. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Time US adjusted to new global reality By Clifford A. Kiracofe July 1, 2018 1259 reads Trade frictions are straining relations between China and the United States. At the end of the day, however, relations are generally on track and constructive. But the world is changing and Washington's ability to adjust appropriately is in question. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Battle-lines drawn: A full-blown trade war between America and China looks likely By The Economist July 1, 2018 1355 reads As Donald Trump threatens further tariffs on Chinese imports, the prospect of a deal is receding. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US-China trade disputes could hit America's heartland hard By Xinhua June 1, 2018 1209 reads DENVER, the United States - American farmers have been bracing for a tariffs race between the United States and China ignited by the Trump - economic shots that would likely hurt America's historic heartland.? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China must be part of Korean peace negotiations to prevent further mistrust By Zhang Baohui June 1, 2018 1223 reads Zhang Baohui says that as Korea peace talks expand to include the United States, the parties involved should consider adding China as well, to avoid a repeat of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Buffett says world depends on US, China for growth By Wang Ying / Xinhua June 1, 2018 1304 reads US billionaire investor Warren Buffett, center, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, talks to the media before the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, the United States, May 5, 2018. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Reflections on China's reforms By Bert Hofman May 1, 2018 1329 reads Forty years ago in December, Deng Xiaoping delivered his historic speech: "Emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts and unite as one to face the future." This triggered four decades of reform and opening-up that have transformed China into the world's second-largest economy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why US sanctions on ZTE might turn out to be the best thing for China’s microchip ambitions By Craig Addison May 1, 2018 1336 reads Case study from 18 years ago may provide lessons for Chinese telecoms company that has been denied access to US technology. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 For US and China, the real friction over Taiwan is yet to come By Cary Huang May 1, 2018 1250 reads US National Security Adviser John Bolton’s trip to Taipei and Trump’s stance on submarines could make the biggest mess of China-US ties since Nixon 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Returning migrants: the Chinese economy’s next great hope? By Coco Liu April 1, 2018 1512 reads The great migration of rural workers into China’s cities helped to create the world’s second largest economy. Now a new avenue of growth is opening up, as the rise of e-commerce fuels a reverse migration of entrepreneurs. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Hong Kong's economy looks bleak if trade war intensifies By Ken Davies April 1, 2018 1539 reads Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on imports from China is aimed at changing China’s trade and investment policies, but its medium-term impact is likely to be a tit-for-tat trade war which will harm the US and Chinese economies. Hong Kong’s open economy will inevitably suffer as a result. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Tapping growing potential of AI industry By Edward Tse and Jackie Tang March 1, 2018 1325 reads The global artificial intelligence market has experienced explosive growth in recent years, and this game-changing technology is now considered the "next big thing" after the mobile internet. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What should Beijing do to cope with Donald Trump's tax cut? Chinese experts give their views By Frank Tang and Xie Yu March 1, 2018 1393 reads Economists warn that burden imposed on Chinese companies is stifling competitiveness... 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How China's new model for hi-tech firms can help it become a global leader in artificial intelligence and driverless cars By Jane Cai March 1, 2018 1307 reads Dutch academic based at Zhejiang University argues that Chinese business ecosystems are completely different to those found in Silicon Valley. ? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Trump’s new security strategy on China and Taiwan means the gloves are off in Sino-US rivalry By Michal Thim February 1, 2018 1311 reads Michal Thim says the new US national security strategy places relations with China outside ambiguous niceties, with the open declaration of a new era of competition. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Facial recognition to ticketing apps: how tech is helping ease the Lunar New Year travel crush By Celia Chen, Meng Jing and Sarah Dai February 1, 2018 1271 reads Technology is playing a part to ease the travel crush during Lunar New Year. An estimated 3 billion trips will be made in a six-week period starting next week as hundreds of millions of Chinese make their way back to their hometowns. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 On Zheng He’s Exploration of the Americas:Navigational Routes, Timelines and Evidence By Wang Sheng-Wei January 1, 2018 1536 reads Source: Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on “Multidisciplinary Innovation for Sustainability and Growth” (MISG – 2017) – Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia (July 13-14) 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Yukon Huang: Debunking Myths about China's Economy By Yukon Huang January 1, 2018 1610 reads SPEAKER: Yukon Huang Senior Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BA from Yale University. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China's Economic Miracle | The Rise of China Mini-Documentary | Episodes 1 -3 By KJ Vids December 1, 2017 2036 reads Two centuries ago, Napoleon warned, "Let China sleep: when she wakes, she will shake the world." 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Asean's march into the Digital Economy: Muddling through is not muddle-headed By Andrew Sheng December 1, 2017 1251 reads Those of us who witnessed the founding of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) in August 1967 could not have imagined how much was achieved in the last 50 years. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 President's Speaker Series: Jim Rogers By Jim Rogers December 1, 2017 1421 reads In a talk titled "How I see the world and what I'm doing about it", investment guru, Guiness Record winner and travel enthusiast, Jim Rogers spoke to a full house as part of the Yale-NUS College President's Speaker Series. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The real message for the world in China’s first global congress By Kerry Brown November 1, 2017 1466 reads Xi Jinping may be the lead character in the latest episode of a play unfolding since 1921, but the plot is about the Communist Party. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How people in Asia-Pacific view China By Laura Silver November 1, 2017 1503 reads This week, China convenes its 19th National Congress, a gathering closely watched by those seeking to understand power shifts and policy changes within the world’s most populous country. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What would China do if North Korea and the United States go to war? By Bilahari Kausikan October 1, 2017 1648 reads Singapore’s ambassador at large Bilahari Kausikan gives his views on the North Korean nuclear crisis, the rise of China and the potential for conflict between Beijing and New Delhi. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Crisis of Korean Peninsula, Who to blame? How to fix it? By Ifay Chang October 1, 2017 1369 reads Recently, North Korea tested another nuclear bomb and launched a missile flying over Japan. The power of the hydrogen bomb created a 6.3 Richter scale earthquake; naturally, this is threatening South Korea, Japan and the United States as well as making China unhappy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Michael Wood Interview: Why China Is Embracing Its Glorious Past By Michael Wood September 1, 2017 1585 reads The Story of China, the latest documentary written and hosted by Michael Wood, unfolds 4,000 years of tumultuous history in six episodes that took the globetrotting British historian to virtually every corner of the vast Middle Kingdom. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence By Kai-Fu Lee September 1, 2017 1577 reads What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Alibaba Founder Jack Ma: Harvard rejected me 10 times! By Jack Ma August 1, 2017 1627 reads Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma in Davos World Economic Forum interviewed by Charlie Rose; amazing interview and amazing insights for entrepreneurs and startup founders. His vision is genuine and ground. Truly inspiring! 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Governance recipe for sustainable development in Central Asia with One Belt, One Road By Andrew K P Leung August 1, 2017 1454 reads Following is Dr. Leung’s PowerPoint accepted for presentation at the Cambridge Central Asia Forum - Beyond Globalization: Prospects for Eurasia. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 HK continues to benefit from national development By Sheng-Wei Wang July 1, 2017 1504 reads Hong Kong will soon commemorate the 20th anniversary of the reversion of its sovereignty from Britain back to China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | TED Talk | TED.com By Robert Waldinger July 1, 2017 1455 reads What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China sees biggest overseas returning wave in recent years By Wu Yan June 1, 2017 1666 reads At the National Science and Technology Awards Conference held in Beijing on January, 2017, Ren Xiaobin and his team won the second prize in the 2016 National Natural Science Award. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Trade Deficit By Yung-Sheng Cha June 1, 2017 1397 reads Trade was the central issue of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. Trump claims that the large trade deficit caused the loss of millions of jobs and the closing of factories in the U. S. When Trump was elected and inaugurated as the U. S. President, he immediately canceled the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and prepared to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreements (NAFTA). 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Briefing by Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mnuchin, and Secretary Ross on President Trumps Meetings with President Xi of China By White House May 1, 2017 1810 reads MR. SPICER: Hi, guys. So this is being streamed back to both the Tideline, as well as the White House. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Trump’s Decision to Honor the One-China Policy: How Best to Explain It? By John F. Cooper May 1, 2017 1407 reads On the evening of February 9, 2017, in a telephone conversation with China’s President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump made a volte-face from his previous statements and pledged to honor America’s one-China policy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What Happens When China Becomes Number One (Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government) By Kishore Mahbubani April 1, 2017 1950 reads To know more about the US image in the eyes of many people, please click the following link 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Rockefeller family sets worthy example for HK’s super-rich By Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2017 1626 reads American banker, presidential emissary and adviser, philanthropist and patron of the arts, David Rockefeller died on March 20, 2017. He was 101. At the time of his death, Forbes estimated his net worth at $3.3 billion (Global Rich List, ranking No. 603) and that he gave away $2 billion to charity in his lifetime. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The New Silk Road: China’s plan to change the world By Pearl Forss March 1, 2017 1625 reads This is "The New Silk Road: China's plan to change the world" by Pearl Forss on Vimeo 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Handle with Care! By Peter Chung Chieh March 1, 2017 1708 reads At the time when the life of the former Commander in Chief of the Army of the Republic of China, General Sun Li-jen, was suddenly in danger without warning, I made up my mind to study science, staying away from dirty politics at that very instant. The General was dearly loved domestically and enjoyed a great reputation internationally. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A Grand Bargain By Yung-Sheng Cha February 1, 2017 1805 reads There are three potential flashpoints in Asia between Washington and Beijing; they are North Korea, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. Any one of these could evolve into a major military conflict in the not-too-distant future. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Jack Ma Full Interview at Davos 2017 By Jack Ma and Andrew Ross Sorkin February 1, 2017 1679 reads Ma spoke with CNBC anchor and New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin from Davos 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Aftershocks By Peter Chung Chieh January 1, 2017 2105 reads At the beginning of the U.S. presidential election campaign, a British parliamentarian moved to ban Donald Trump from entering the U.K. due to his many radical and hateful statements. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The coming war on China By John Richard Pilgar January 1, 2017 1731 reads Thom Hartmann talks with author and filmmaker John Pilger about his new documentary “The coming war on China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Separatist pair must be excluded from LegCo By Wang Shengwei (Sheng-Wei Wang) December 1, 2016 1654 reads The most important action necessary for restoring stability to Hong Kong today is for the chaos in the Legislative Council to be ended swiftly and decisively. The situation has become increasingly confused since the two most controversial winners of LegCo seats, Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung Chung-hang, deliberately corrupted the oaths they swore almost four weeks ago. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How Historians of Tomorrow Will Interpret Donald Trump’s Election By Time Staff December 1, 2016 1521 reads It’s safe to say that the results of Tuesday’s presidential election came as something of a surprise to many Americans, no matter whom they backed. President-elect Donald Trump soundly defied the polls to pull out a victory, despite a campaign that shocked and alienated large swaths of the country. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 One Belt, One Road (OBOR): Challenges and Opportunities By Victor Da Hsuan Feng November 1, 2016 2100 reads Colleagues: This morning I discussed with many of you about popularizing the concept of One-Belt-One-Road (OBOR) to all corners of the world. One consensus I received from many of you was that utilizing English to discuss this issue is critical. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The three unexpected cross-strait situations By Li Yi Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2016 2255 reads Tsai Ing-wen took office more than four months ago. The current cross-strait situation since she was elected on January 16 this year can be summed up in three sentences. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Politics in the HKSAR is at a crossroads after LegCo election By Wang Shengwei (Sheng-Wei Wang) October 1, 2016 1717 reads Concerning the 2016 Legislative Council election, the surge of interest among the population was quite remarkable, with voter turnout reaching more than 2.2 million or 58 percent of the eligible voters, a record high number since Hong Kong returned to China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Turkey’s coup and geopolitics By Binghe Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2016 1631 reads After the failed coup in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan immediately accused the Islamic sect leader Muhammed Fethullah Gulen living in Pennsylvania, USA, of being an evil backstage manipulator, and asked the US to extradite him back to Turkey (Gulen strongly denied the charge). 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Washington essay: US middle class shrank and professor lamented widening gap of rich and poor By Donghui Yu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2016 2248 reads American writer Neal Gabler recently published an article on The Atlantic website, which sparked heated debate in the US. He wrote that the Federal Reserve Board’s survey found that 47 percent of the American respondents said that they would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How the US Misjudged the South China Sea, Part I and II By Xue Li and Xu Yanzhuo September 1, 2016 1666 reads A look at the U.S. position and policy, and why it failed to produce the desired response. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 “Thinking Through the Unthinkable”: RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China By Peter Symonds September 1, 2016 1663 reads A new study by the RAND Corporation titled “War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable” is just the latest think tank paper devoted to assessing a US war against China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why the South China Sea Verdict Is Likely to Backfire By Ted Galen Carpenter August 1, 2016 1583 reads http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/why-the-south-china-sea-verdict-likely-backfire-16957 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Where will Taiwan go from here? By Binghe Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2016 1651 reads After Tsai Ing-wen came to power becoming Taiwan’s political leader, she immediately, as expected, began a new diplomatic direction by "keeping the mainland of China at a distance, but strengthening partnerships with the US and Japan." 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China Wants To Peacefully Settle Maritime Territorial Disputes By Chee Hwa Tung August 1, 2016 1554 reads The following is an abbreviated speech originally delivered at the International Law Colloquium on Maritime Disputes Settlement on July 15, 2016 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US-China Relations Do Not Need Another Lawyer By Ifay Chang July 1, 2016 1871 reads It has become obvious even to school children that the US-China relations are not on good terms, based on mainstream media reports, although no one has a clear idea why it is so, not even the children’s teachers. The mass media seem to be spinning a picture that China is a threat to the US, but with no specific evidence. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Reciprocate Beijing’s olive branch By Wang Shengwei July 1, 2016 1764 reads While Hong Kong people still need time to digest the shock from the Mong Kok riot caused by radical “localists” just after Lunar New Year’s Day, several weaker-than-expected economic indicators and some of our youth groups’ advocacy for “Hong Kong independence” have injected unwarranted pessimism into some of our residents. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Pentagon Is Endangering Our Economic Ties With China By Patrick Smith July 1, 2016 1585 reads http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/05/09/Pentagon-Endangering-Our-Economic-Ties-China 【Full Story】 【Comments】 South China Sea: How We Got to This Stage By Fu Ying and Wu Shicun June 1, 2016 1693 reads Editor’s note: This article reviews the many large or small events in the evolution of the South China Sea situation and demonstrates the possible connections among them. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A midnight phone call changed the Sino-Philippine relations By Binghe Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2016 1772 reads In the 1970s, the Cultural Revolution in the mainland of China was in full swing and the political struggle consumed the national strength. In contrast, after defeating the US, Vietnam became complacent, aggressive, and immediately went further to capture the Paracel Islands (also known to the Chinese as Xisha Islands in the South China Sea) near China’s Hainan Island. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Say Goodbye to Taiwan (I) By John J. Mearsheimer May 1, 2016 2415 reads Time is running out for the little island coveted by its gigantic, growing neighbor. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Say Goodbye to Taiwan (II) By John J. Mearsheimer May 1, 2016 2566 reads Furthermore, why would a powerful China accept U.S. military forces operating in its backyard? American policy makers, after all, go ballistic when other great powers send military forces into the Western Hemisphere. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Biggest Misunderstanding About China's Economic Diplomacy By Jin Kai April 1, 2016 1902 reads No, China hasn’t succeeded in “buying” allies — but that’s not what Beijing is trying to do 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Clear mist of confusion over South China Sea By Jin Kai April 1, 2016 1810 reads The report of China deploying a missile system on Yongxing Island, part of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea came as a "surprise", with the Western world citing it as further evidence of China's "direct military provocation" to other countries and a threat to regional peace and order. The United States expects to hold "very serious talks" with China, and its allies have expressed concern over the development. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 On the three separatisms China is facing By Binghe Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2016 1797 reads The three separatisms China is facing are Tibet independence, Xinjiang independence and Taiwan independence. But before discussing any further, let us uphold a principle, namely, a country’s territory can expand or contract by gaining or losing land according to the rise or fall of its national strength. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 2015 Meet the Author - James Bradley - “The China Mirage” - Full Version By James Bradley March 1, 2016 1848 reads Excellent talk by American author James Bradly, worth listening, even though it is a bit long. This exploitation of the Chinese people goes way back in the US history and also applies to Australia, where many Chinese migrants from China in the “gold-rush” days worked very, very hard to help developed these countries. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Beijing’s South China Sea Moves Make Sense Now By Greg Austin March 1, 2016 1797 reads The link below explains “China’s primary motivation in recent South China Sea military activities 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Cross Talk on Soundcloud: Chinese Wave - China & U.S. Face a Choice of Accommodation and Confrontation By English-language TV channel of RT February 1, 2016 1580 reads For interested readers, please click this link to watch the video of Cross Talk on the English-language TV channel of RT 【Full Story】 【Comments】 'Comfort Women' - What Does It Mean To You? By Ifay Chang February 1, 2016 2080 reads Imagine someone you knew. A high school girl on her way to Tainan's Girls High School was captured by a uniformed Japanese military police and was sent to the battle front to serve the Japanese army as a sex slave, being raped day and night for 1095 days - nightmares carved in the girl's memory, painful and unbearable. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Kishore Mahbubani. What happens when China becomes number one? | Institute of Politics By Kishore Mahbubani January 1, 2016 2333 reads Please click the following links to listen/read to Kishore Mahbubani’s speech at Harvard University. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Comments on “What happens when China becomes number one?” By Yung Sheng Cha January 1, 2016 1881 reads After watching the program, I cannot help but make the following observations and comments. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Ma Yun’s Speech at the ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK on June 9, 2015 By Ma Yun December 1, 2015 2085 reads I’m so honored. I never expect there are so many people coming here to listen to my talk. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Article 9 By Yung-Sheng Cha November 1, 2015 1608 reads The Japanese Parliament just approved legislation which reinterprets Japan’s constitution and fundamentally changes the way Japan uses its military. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How deep is the Middle East hell? By Binghe Shui Translation by Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2015 1870 reads During this Labor Day weekend I read a very interesting passage. This passage came from Richard Fontaine, foreign-policy adviser of the Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush: 【Full Story】 【Comments】 In leading the Asian Investment Bank, China should learn to accept criticisms and make compromises By China Review News Agency October 1, 2015 1716 reads The Articles of Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) were signed in the morning of June 29, 2015, in Beijing. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Shanghai to Beijing by high-speed train: video guide By an American tourist October 1, 2015 1604 reads Click http://ww.daliulian.com/cat43/node432153; the video is in the middle part of the page, enjoy! 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Who is checking the Western media? By Yi-Cheng Chang Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2015 1752 reads The World Journal Weekly published on May 24, 2015, an article entitled “US and British reports on China lacking objectiveness and fairness” written by Leng Hongseng (冷鴻升). 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why We Fight #6: The Battle of CHINA By An American Film Producer September 1, 2015 1720 reads http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2015/08/27/4517233.html 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Positioning China as a first-time net exporter of capital By China Review News Agency August 1, 2015 1861 reads Data released in January 2015 by the Ministry of Commerce show that in 2014 China's outward direct investment, after excluding investment into the sector of financial services, reached $102.9 billion. Adding the reinvestment of profit earned abroad by Chinese companies and their investment through third countries, China’s total overseas investment reached $140 billion, higher than the foreign investment into China by about $20 billion. China has become a net exporter of capital for the first time. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A Partnership with China to Avoid World War By George Soros August 1, 2015 1787 reads 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Legacy of President Obama By Yung-Sheng Cha July 1, 2015 1760 reads There are less than two years left in the Obama presidency. People have begun to talk about the legacy of the Obama Administration. It is not unusual to consider a president to be a lame-duck president during the last two years of his presidency, and no major accomplishments are expected. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 'China and Democracy' Debate with Minxin Pei and Eric Li By Minxin Pei and Eric Li July 1, 2015 2054 reads An important debate from the Aspen Ideas Festival on the future of China's political and economic system: 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Chinese population in the United States exceeds 4.5 million: the largest ethnic group among Asian immigrants By Donghui Yu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2015 1823 reads The latest data show that the Chinese population in the US reached 4.52 million; 4.347 million regarded themselves as "Chinese people" and 173 thousand as "Taiwanese people". 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The US must wake up to a multipolar world by welcoming China to the table By Paola Subacchi June 1, 2015 1667 reads http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1766154/us-must-wake-multipolar-world-welcoming-china-table 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China to become the world's largest retail market in 2018 By China Review News Agency Translator Sheng-Wei Wang May 1, 2015 1817 reads The latest prediction by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s four largest accounting firms, said that by 2018 China will become the world's largest retail market, but that Hong Kong’s retail sales next year may record a negative growth. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Kevin Rudd’s TED talk: Are China and the US doomed to conflict? By Kevin Rudd May 1, 2015 2235 reads Kevin Rudd and his colleagues study alternate courses for US-China relations that guide us away from a seemingly inevitable confrontation: 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Towards a Community of Common Destiny and a New Future for Asia By Xi Jinping April 1, 2015 2013 reads Editor’s note: This is the Keynote Speech by Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015, Boao, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China, on March 28, 2015. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Innovation and technology is the way forward for HK By Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2015 1771 reads As Hong Kong is now facing slower growth but still wants to pursue economic development beyond its traditional four key industries, it must maintain its competitive advantage, especially in innovation and technology. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has warned that technology is developing at a tremendous pace and we have been lagging behind our competitors. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Third Silk Road will lead to the China Dream By Ho Chi-ping March 1, 2015 1749 reads A year ago President Xi Jinping expressed his strategic vision of a new model of connectivity among peoples known as the “One Belt and One Road” (Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road) initiative. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Wang Jisi: a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States may form in 10 years By Boning Huang March 1, 2015 1909 reads "A new model of major-country relations is actually a mutual respect of two orders, that the United States respects China's domestic order and that China respects the order of the US-led global governance", said Wang Jisi,... 【Full Story】 【Comments】 TED Talks: Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers By Leslie T. Chang February 1, 2015 2322 reads In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Wealthy and willing spenders have friends everywhere By Author Paul Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang February 1, 2015 1818 reads The Beatles have had numerous hit songs. One of them was "Can't Buy Me Love." A Hong Kong youth listened to it, but did not quite agree and said, "Give me the money and I’ll show you what I can buy!" 【Full Story】 【Comments】 De-Sinicization won’t succeed in Hong Kong By Sheng-Wei Wang January 1, 2015 2200 reads There is much more to the “Occupy Central” campaign than the actions of protesters who have taken over major streets and engaged in turf battles with police. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 What's next for Hong Kong as it struggles to find its identity By Voice of Russia January 1, 2015 1785 reads A radio panel discussion on Voice of Russia on 8 October, 2014: Andrew K. P. Leung together with Martin Jacques 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Education in the United States and China - To learn and not to learn from the differences By Ifay Chang December 1, 2014 2271 reads Education is regarded as very important by almost every nation. Countries with a long history attribute their rich culture to education. Technologically advanced countries recognize education as the prime factor for achieving their advances. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How the new SAT test will instill US values into impressionable young Chinese minds By Kelly Yang December 1, 2014 1694 reads Please click the following link to read “How the new SAT test will instill US values into impressionable young Chinese minds” 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Bridging the gap By Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2014 2218 reads Since the “Occupy Central” demonstrations started on Sept 28, they have caused not only considerable inconvenience to members of the public, but economic losses which have yet to be tallied. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 From diehard old practices to the right track – the political system with Chinese characteristics By Binghe Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2014 1870 reads After departing my homeland as a child, in August 1978 I returned to it as a middle-aged man. Altogether, I stayed in the mainland for forty days and travelled to more than ten cities to visit relatives whom I had not seen for a few decades or had never seen before. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Chinese investment in the United States could reach 1-2 trillion US dollars in 2020 By China Review News Agency Translator Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2014 1890 reads China's sustained economic growth driven by foreign investment is stronger than expected. Chinese companies have also begun to seek external expansion and make overseas investments in Europe and the United States. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Shocking "migration deficit" indicates China cultivating talents for the West By China Review News Agency Translator Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2014 2202 reads The US has used the "American Dream" to lure global talent in the past. As the world has changed, more and more foreigners are starting to view China as their new "dreamland". 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Robert Kagan’s manifesto of neo-conservatism By Binghe Shui Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2014 2066 reads Not long ago, when I talked about the situation in Ukraine in the US-China Forum (http://www.us-chinaforum.org) I mentioned a lady Victoria Nuland who is the US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Nearly 270,000 Chinese students studied in the U.S., with a continued surge of the number of students from the mainland of China By Donghui Yu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2014 1946 reads According to the latest statistics released on November 11, 2013, by the American Institute of International Education (IIE), in the 2012-2013 academic year, there were 265,500 students from the mainland of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong studying in American universities. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China unfettered: redefining the rules of the seas By Lee Kuan Yew August 1, 2014 2300 reads “China unfettered: redefining the rules of the seas” by Lee Kuan Yew 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Washington observation: U.S. antagonizing both Russia and China has made them move closer By Donghui Yu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2014 2183 reads U.S. officials and diplomatic circles looked indifferently at Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China and the Sino-Russian joint military exercises at sea, but there was intense media coverage. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China and the U.S. must avert conflict in the future by building trust now By Andrew K. P. Leung July 1, 2014 2628 reads The Southeast Asian community used to live in relative peace. China signed the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2003, and the Asean-China Free Trade Area was launched in 2010. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An analysis of contemporary China’s classes and strata (III) By Yi Li Translator Sheng-Wei Wang July 1, 2014 2911 reads The rapid decline of the peasant class of China is the greatest achievement of China's social and economic development over the thirty years of reform and opening up. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Yongnian Zheng: U.S. “Pivot to Asia” strategy and its mistakes By Yongnian Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2014 2282 reads Since World War II, the United States has always been a part of Asia with its interests and influence never leaving there. A few years ago, the U.S. announced that it would “pivot to Asia”. From an economic point of view, this was inevitable. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An analysis of contemporary China’s classes and strata (II) By Yi Li Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2014 2335 reads During this period of time, the structure of China’s social stratification underwent tremendous changes as shown in Figure 5-3. First, the non-agricultural labor force, which accounted for only a quarter of the total in 1979, rose to nearly half of the total in 1993. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Yazhong Zhang : How to explain and resolve Taiwan's "opposing everything associated with the mainland of China" By Yazhong Zhang May 1, 2014 2377 reads Taiwan's democracy has not grown in a healthy soil; therefore it is bound to have a catastrophe on its path. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An analysis of contemporary China’s classes and strata (I) By Yi Li Translator Sheng-Wei Wang May 1, 2014 3120 reads Thanks for giving me this opportunity to come to Shandong University (山东大学) to share some of my research findings. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Wisdom; in reach…hard to grasp By Michael Levy April 1, 2014 1921 reads Science has yet to define the true meaning of wisdom in scientific terminology. Maybe they require some type of clever or mathematical proof that wisdom exists? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Contemporary human opium – cellphones By China Review News April 1, 2014 1853 reads Nowadays when I get together with many of my friends to eat and talk, they are always in constant Line (Exchange free instant messages with friends whenever and wherever with one-on-one and group chats. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 "Liberations" and the cultural rise of China By Yongnian Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2014 2252 reads China is qualified to provide another cultural paradigm for the world. But the Chinese culture today is in a state of contraction. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Geo-Relation and Civilization: Establishing China's Common-Sense Understanding on Central Asia (III) By Zan Tao Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2014 2195 reads Starting from the middle of the 18th century, Czarist Russia continued its expansion and occupation in Central Asia. Many tribes were "merged" into Russia; all three Khanates-Khiva, Bukhara and Kokand-were conquered. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Geo-Relation and Civilization: Establishing China's Common-Sense Understanding on Central Asia (II) By Zan Tao Translator Sheng-Wei Wang February 1, 2014 2032 reads Under the South-North confrontation/co-existence, the Western Regions issue was still mainly a westward geo-strategy for the Central Plains dynasties. But increasingly there was also a tendency toward a clash of civilizations. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 TED Talk: The Dilemma of Capitalism Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems (Vieo) By Eric X. Li February 1, 2014 2253 reads Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems (Video) http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTc3ODE1ODYw.html 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Geo-relation and Civilization: Establishing China’s Common-Sense Understanding on Central Asia (I) By Zan Tao Translator Sheng-Wei Wang January 1, 2014 2505 reads Northwest China is the frontier of the Central Plains while Central Asia is the boundary of China; but they are also at the same time the core of the Inner Asian Continent, the geo-hub meant by Halford J. Mackinder. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The World’s Most Quoted Social Word ‘Xiaosan’ and US-China Relationship By Ifay Chang January 1, 2014 2452 reads My trip with my son Jerray to China last month was enjoyable, exciting for him and amazing for me. Jerray took 800 pictures which I hope he will talk about somewhere but what I would like to talk about here is a social term, ‘xiaosan’, which I heard and read so frequently in this trip in China and outside of China, especially on Internet blogs, newspapers, television and even in movies. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Asians won’t just move on after genocide joke By Alan Mi December 1, 2013 2092 reads To view Alan Mi’s article “Why Asians won’t just move on after genocide joke” on Dallas News Opinion, please click the link below: 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The late autumn farewell By Sheng-Wei Wang December 1, 2013 1945 reads At 1:00 AM on October 14, your 3rd sister suddenly woke up. Five minutes later, a nurse called her saying that at 1 o’clock your pulse was very weak and you stopped breathing. Did you, 4th sister, wake your 3rd sister to quietly say goodbye? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China’s cultural status quo and its "going out" dilemma By Yongnian Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2013 2144 reads China is an ancient nation with a few thousand years of civilization. In history, the Chinese civilization has made great contributions to the Western civilization. The Western philosophy in the Enlightenment period absorbed much of the Chinese cultural rationalism. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Arctic melting: legendary waterway “floats” out of the ice By Chine Review News Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2013 2068 reads The Canadian Arctic scientists Barbados and Matthew in 2009 witnessed the scene. "We were going to board a piece of floating ice. Suddenly, waves surged over and a whole piece of floating ice was raised by the waves to the top. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 U.S. film director Oliver Stone Hiroshima speech and more… By William Oliver Stone and Peter J. Kuznick October 1, 2013 2683 reads U.S. film director Oliver Stone Hiroshima speech 【Japan banned video】 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A German Illustrates Graphically Chinese and Western Cultural Differences By China Review News Translator Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2013 2322 reads The graphics shown below are drawn by a German. He seems to have done some research work on Chinese culture or rather he has at least seen the surface of the problem 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Get Ready for the Next China By Stephen S. Roach September 1, 2013 2185 reads The Next China is now at hand. Yet the United States remains fixated on the Old China, unprepared for major transformation in the world's second largest economy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Tokyo Should Learn from Berlin By Peter Chung Chieh September 1, 2013 2256 reads Taro Aso, deputy minister of Japan, alarmed the world by saying that Tokyo could learn from Nazi Germany when it comes to constitutional reform [1]. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 As the social status of the people of Chinese ethnicity rises, revitalization of Chinatowns becomes a common mission By China Review News Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2013 2102 reads In recent years, the rise of overseas New Chinatowns signifies that the people of Chinese ethnicity are no longer like the populations of over 100 years ago who lived on kitchen knives, razors and sewing knives. Instead, they are gradually becoming mainly white-collar workers like doctors, lawyers and accountants. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 "Cash crunch" amid a flood of liquidity By Ning Zhu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2013 2173 reads Recently China had a domestic "cash crunch" event, which not only constituted a major impact for banks and financial institutions, but also caused a great upheaval in the A-share stock market and attracted worldwide attention from many investors and regulators. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A Tale of Three Nations By Yung-Sheng Cha July 1, 2013 2481 reads Recent disputes between China and Japan on the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea received great attention both in Asia and the United States of America. They have the potential of evolving into military conflict in the region, which no one would like to see. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Toastmaster of the Day - Bizarre April Holidays By Ching-Sung Chin July 1, 2013 2515 reads With a theme of “Bizarre April Holidays” we are going to explore how bizarre these holidays are...Thanks go to Google and Yahoo! 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Can China Provide the World with Another Cultural Paradigm? By Yongnian Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2013 2285 reads The development of Asian countries made them become more and more like Western countries. This is of course the victory of the West and the rise of the West, rather than the rise of Asia. Asia rises through the study of the West. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Nearly 70% of Americans Oppose a U.S. Military Intervention in the Taiwan - Strait War By Donghui Yu June 1, 2013 2006 reads The latest U.S. poll finds that, assuming war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, 69% of Americans oppose a United States military intervention. This number is 8% above that in 2004. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Our Government Faces Fiscal Cliff Crisis and Others Don’t? By Yu-Long Ling May 1, 2013 2464 reads When Plato, the great Greek philosopher, once discussed with his students on the issue of justice, one of them said that when you pay off your debt, you are doing justice. I think that we Americans can agree with this assessment. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Americans Are Facing the Distress of Becoming Poor after Retirement By Weiyi Translator Sheng-Wei Wang May 1, 2013 2167 reads Reuters has published a story saying that at present the American elderly belong to the group of better off in the society. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Essence of New Urbanization Is the Urbanization of People By China Review News Translator Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2013 2363 reads The just-concluded China’s Central Economic Work Conference has confirmed six major tasks for economic work in 2013. One task is to actively and steadily promote urbanization, and strive to improve the quality of urbanization. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Discuss the Issue of Democracy with Dr. Lester Lee By Wenquan Lu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2013 2367 reads I diligently read Dr. Lester Lee’s article entitled "A Tale of two Democracies" published at www.ChinaUSFriendship.com on February 1, 2013. I felt that the article presented quite new ideas and that I would especially like to do a bit more study with the author. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New Evidence Showing Shang Refugees Crossing the Ocean Eastward to Reach the American Continent: The Influence of Shang Dynasty Culture on the New World Based on Oracle-Bone Inscriptions Spreading Eastward to Mexico (I) By Yuzhou Fan Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2013 9840 reads The possibility of an eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean by the Yin people (Shang refugees) to reach the American Continent is an important subject of general interest in recent years among Chinese and non-Chinese academic circles. Regarding this topic, quite a number of Chinese and foreign scholars have published their works and put forward numerous hypotheses and inferences. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New Evidence Showing Shang Refugees Crossing the Ocean Eastward to Reach the American Continent: The Influence of Shang Dynasty Culture on the New World Based on Oracle-Bone Inscriptions Spreading Eastward to Mexico (II) By Yuzhou Fan Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2013 7114 reads The oracle-bone inscriptions were used by the royal family of the late Shang Dynasty to record activities of their daily divinations. In fact, they also engraved texts of important meanings on bronze (Figure 8), jade (Figure 9) and stone tools. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Hidden Agenda Over Diaoyu Islands By Peter C. Chieh February 1, 2013 2812 reads We had a toddler and a baby when I finished graduate studies and our lifestyle remained unchanged when we came to Waterloo in 1969. Students in the University of Waterloo took us as some of them. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A Tale of two Democracies By Lester Lee February 1, 2013 2330 reads Elections earlier this month (December 2012) in the USA and China give us a chance to reflect on how each country conducts its own political process to arrive at regime changes. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China Review News: The Background, Characteristics and Influence of QE3 By Xiaofen Tan and Liting Deng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang January 1, 2013 2672 reads On September 13, 2012, the Federal Reserve (Fed) finally announced the launch of a third round of quantitative easing (QE3) monetary policy. The background of the QE3 introduction contains mainly two aspects: First, the 2012 European debt crisis continues to simmer and constitutes the biggest threat to global economic recovery. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Obama Should Adopt a New Approach for China By George Koo January 1, 2013 2386 reads While there are numerous challenges for President Obama to tackle in his next administration, China does not have to be one of them. All we need is a fundamental change in the United States’ approach to China and the bilateral relationship. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China is Okay By Stephen S. Roach December 1, 2012 2446 reads NEW HAVEN – Concern is growing that China’s economy could be headed for a hard landing. The Chinese stock market has fallen 20% over the past year, to levels last seen in 2009. Continued softness in recent data – from purchasing managers’ sentiment and industrial output to retail sales and exports – has heightened the anxiety. Long the global economy’s most powerful engine, China, many now fear, is running out of fuel. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Tsunami Debris Demonstrates How Early People Crossed the Pacific By Charlotte Harris Rees December 1, 2012 2632 reads Background: Since early 2003, Mrs. Rees, an independent researcher and a graduate of Columbia International University, has diligently studied the possibility of very early arrival of Chinese to America. In 1972 her father, Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr., found in an antique shop in Korea an ancient Asian map which led him to write a book of almost 800 pages. That book contended that by 2200 B.C. Chinese had reached the Americas by sea. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Will China's Economy Collapse? (Ⅰ) By Pierre A. Hanson (Heyuan Han) Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2012 2768 reads The famous American military expert and politician Dr. George Friedman said in a 2011 interview with South Korean media that China, under the conflict of an export-oriented structure and poverty, would fall into a “crisis” in the next 10 years. His opinion was based on the single reason that China was a country with no internal economy; if Europe and the United States did not buy Chinese products, the country could not survive. In his view, China was like a hostage of the outside world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Will China's Economy Collapse? (Ⅱ) By Pierre A. Hanson (Heyuan Han) Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2012 3293 reads But the good news is that the first and the second reasons given by Paul Krugman, though not sufficient to compensate completely for the negative effects of the latter two, could at least partially offset them. From the present situation 【Full Story】 【Comments】 US-China: what effect will have the Clinton Africa tour? By Said Ahmed October 1, 2012 2272 reads In early August the American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began an African tour that led her to Senegal, the South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Ghana, and included a meeting in Nairobi with the leaders of Somalia. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Zheng Hailin: Japanese Map Accounts for the Diaoyutai Islands to be Chinese Territory By Hailin Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2012 3713 reads The “Map of Three Provinces and 36 Islands of Ryukyu” (《琉球三省並三十六島之圖》) attached to A Comprehensive Map of the Three Countries (《三國通覽圖說》) drawn by Japanese Lin Tzu-Ping (林子平, 1738-1793) is an important document at present among the historical records retained by China, Japan, and Ryukyu (Okinawa). It accounts for the Diaoyutai Islands as a Chinese territory. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power By Hugh White September 1, 2012 2608 reads Listening: Hugh White discusses his new book, The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (ISBN 9781863955621, published by Black Inc.) 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Hailin Zheng: Statement on Sovereignty of the Diaoyutai Islands By Hailin Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2012 4652 reads The Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台列嶼) that are located on the shallow continental shelf of the East China Sea have always been an inalienable part of Chinese territory since ancient times. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Closing Remarks of Sino-US Colloquium (II): “Trust Building” By Patrick C. P. Ho August 1, 2012 2476 reads "The relationship between the United States and China will shape the 21st century." -- Obama July, 2009 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China’s Population Policy Should Be Adjusted By China Review News Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2012 2461 reads The event of forced induction of labor of 23-year-old Feng Jianmei in Shaanxi Province by the local government is destined to become a scar in the history of China's family planning. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Can China Provide the World with Another Cultural Paradigm? By Yongnian Zheng Translator Sheng-Wei Wang July 1, 2012 2447 reads The development of Asian countries made them become more and more like Western countries. This is of course the victory of the West and the rise of the West, rather than the rise of Asia. Asia rises through the study of the West. This is the interpretation by most Western scholars. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Martin Jacques: Understanding the Rise of China (A TED Presentation) By Martin Jacques July 1, 2012 3678 reads 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Only non-action could determine right and wrong - Zhuangzi's perspective on world peace By Chengyi Peng June 1, 2012 2651 reads Even though the world has entered the new millennium over a decade ago, it does not seem to be more peaceful than before. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Basic facts on China's sovereignty over Huangyan Island By Xinhua English June 1, 2012 2522 reads The Philippines recently sent a warship to harass 12 Chinese fishing vessels which sailed into the waters of Huangyan Island to shelter from bad weather. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Two Factors Determine that the Euro Is Bound to Collapse By Pierre A. Hanson (Heyuan Han) Translator Sheng-Wei Wang May 1, 2012 5018 reads G20 finance ministers gathered in Mexico City in late February to discuss the world economic affairs and the debt crisis in Europe was the first hot topic. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 True Meaning of Go By Kabe Chin Translator Ching-Sung Chin May 1, 2012 2391 reads A cloud of apprehension hangs overhead. A bead of sweat falls from the brow of the head general. Outside, a leaf from a nearby maple tree falls ever so gently as soldiers of the famous Hei army wait in anticipation for the command to begin battle against the Bai army. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Shitai Story: A Documentary of Visiting the AiXin Assisted Educational Program in Shitai By Xiao-Hua Guo and Lu Lijuan Translator Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2012 2874 reads This was our first visit to Shitai in Anhui Province, which left many touching stories to share with you. We are deeply moved not by the suffering of the people there, because there are sufferings everywhere, but by these people’s persistence, optimism and courage in facing the tribulations. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Ideological and Cultural Influences of China on Korea and Japan (II) --- Another Chapter to Reading the Mirrors of History By Cheng-li Lu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2012 5098 reads The era of the 33th generation of Japanese Emperor Suiko was a key period to Japan's historical development. Buddhism and Confucianism in Japan were originally introduced from Baekje. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Techo Political Socialization By Danny H. Wang March 1, 2012 2834 reads According to a Gallup Poll in 2008, registered voters aged 18-29 favored President-elect Barack Obama over John McCain by almost 30%. While the youth clearly favored Obama, the competition between both candidates was more equal among the older groups. So the question begs, why did future President Barack Obama have such a huge youth approval rating over John McCain? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Ideological and Cultural Influences of China on Korea and Japan (I) --- Another Chapter to Reading the Mirrors of History By Cheng-li Lu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2012 3931 reads In my previous article "Historic Interactions among China, Korea and Japan (I) and (II): A New Chapter to Reading the Mirrors of History," I have generally described the kind of interactions of ancient China with Korea and Japan and the impacts of these interactions in terms of racial origins, politics and military aspects. This article talks about the mutual influences of their relevant ideological and cultural interactions. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Establishing the Cross-Strait Community View of History (III): Why the Community View of History Should Be Established By Yazhong Zhang (Ya-Chung Chang) Translator Sheng-Wei Wang February 1, 2012 2844 reads In early October 2010, I finished writing "Establishing the Cross-Strait Community View of History (I): What Are the Existing Problems?" (China Review News, November 2011 Issue, Total No. 155th Issue; internet publication on www.ChinaReviewNews.com, 12/05/2010). 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Establishing the Cross-Strait Community View of History (IV): Why the Community View of History Should Be Established By Yazhong Zhang (Ya-Chung Chang) Translator Sheng-Wei Wang February 1, 2012 2724 reads The right-most column of Table 2 is the so-called Taiwan independence fundamentalism, which is the basic theory for those who sought independence prior to the democratization of Taiwan. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Preface for The Truth behind Inflation By Sheng-Wei Wang January 1, 2012 2834 reads Nobel laureate U.S. economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006) once said: “Economics is a fascinating science. What fascinates people the most is its basic principles being so simple. You can write them on a piece of paper and anyone can understand them. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Balance of Power By Christoph Frei January 1, 2012 2732 reads In 2010, it had become commonplace to state that the world had fundamentally changed over the past decade. Yet the events of 2011 will be remembered for the profound effects on the global energy industry. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Analyzing the Recent Unusual Moves of the United States By Yishan Xin Translator Sheng-Wei Wang December 1, 2011 2829 reads The U.S. Congress passed the currency exchange rate surveillance Reform Act directed at the RMB exchange rate. Many people may think that my calling it an unusual move is a little ridiculous. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 U.S., China Must Share Asia Power By Hugh White December 1, 2011 2810 reads U.S., China Must Share Asia Power http://www.realclearworld.com/2011/11/16/us_china_must_share_asia_power_129870.html 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Best Speech - Severn Suzuki By Severn Suzuki November 1, 2011 3411 reads 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Yazhong Zhang: Reflections on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty By Yazhong Zhang Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2011 3218 reads Sixty years ago today, on September 8, 1951, the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. In the covenant, Japan only renounced Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) without explicitly returning them to China, thus giving the implicit legal basis of "undetermined status of Taiwan" as advocated by the United States. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A NPU Student’s Inspiration By a Student of Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian October 1, 2011 2890 reads Hello, Mr. Xiao (肖云飞)! It was a great opportunity to listen to your lecture this afternoon. I benefited a lot from it and felt much honored! From your nearly three-hour seminar, as a student, I have learned a lot of what my university has not taught me. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 From the Perpetual Foreigner to the Quintessential American (Rev. Sept 5, 2011) By Min Zhou October 1, 2011 2863 reads Editor’s Note: We thank Professor Min Zhou for contributing this article to www.ChinaUSFriendship.com. The article was first published on www.zaobao.com (2011-03-14）. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 "Let’s Do It, Gary Locke": An Opportunity for China and the U.S. By Yang Jian Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2011 3154 reads Gary Locke is coming. U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to succeed Jon Huntsman, Jr., to serve as U.S. ambassador to China. The U.S. Senate passed the nomination on July 27. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Editorial: China-U.S. Strategic Game in the South China Sea with Asian Neighbors By Zugui Gao Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2011 2851 reads As China's comprehensive strength and international status climb to a new height, the interaction between China and the world enters into a new phase and shows a new trend. The embodiment of this new trend is the major linkage among China, the United States and China's Asian neighbors. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Significance of Neo-Confucianism to the Modernization of China and the Reconstruction of International Order By Gau-Jeng Ju (Gaozheng Zhu) Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2011 3420 reads Since the beginning of the 21st century, the most prominent topic in the world has been the “rise of China” which affects all parties concerned. First and foremost, it affects the western countries that have led the development of the modern world during the last five hundred years; the rise of China means that the “US-Euro-centrism” is called into question and faces challenges. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Know Your Chinese Sister, Fellow Seattleites: Sister City Chongqing, That Is By Wendy Liu August 1, 2011 10127 reads You’ve probably heard China sometimes described in American terms, or place names. Shanghai’s financial district is, for instance, China’s Manhattan, and Tsinghua University, China’s MIT. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Power Shift: Australia’s Future between Washington and Beijing By Hugh White July 1, 2011 3618 reads Author video Part I and II: http://www.quarterlyessay.com/issue/power-shift-australia%E2%80%99s-future-between-washington-and-beijing 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Andy Xie: Debt Crisis Is Fermenting: Global Economic Crisis Will Soon Arrive By Andy Xie Translator Sheng-Wei Wang July 1, 2011 3446 reads The global economy is falling again. Last summer, a similar scene had appeared. The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) has reversed the downward trend by giving the global stock market a lift using the second round of quantitative easing. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Establishing the Cross-Strait Community View of History (I): What Are the Existing Problems? By Yazhong Zhang Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2011 3587 reads History is dead, but history education is alive; history is past, but views of history can be futuristic. Yesterday’s politics is today’s history, and today's politics is tomorrow's history. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Establishing the Cross-Strait Community View of History (II): What Are the Existing Problems? By Yazhong Zhang Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2011 3785 reads The proponents of Taiwan independence first used the article "Undetermined Status of Taiwan" as a portion of their view of history. The "Resolution on Taiwan's Future" (abbreviated as the “417 Resolution”) passed by the first impromptu assembly of the second session of the DPP on April 17, 1988, used it as a reason. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (I) By Min Zhou May 1, 2011 11799 reads Outside Asia, the United States has largest ethnic Chinese population. Chinese Americans are also the oldest and largest Asian origin group in the United States. They have endured a long history of migration and settlement that dates back to the late 1840s, including more than 60 years of legal exclusion. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (II) By Min Zhou May 1, 2011 4307 reads The majority of the Chinese American population is spreading out in outer areas or suburbs in traditional gateway cities as well as in new urban centers of Asian settlement across the country. Small suburban cities in Los Angeles and the Bay Area have also seen extraordinarily high proportions of the Chinese Americans in the general population. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Historic interactions among China, Korea and Japan (II): A new chapter to Reading the Mirrors of History By Cheng-li Lu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2011 7010 reads Tang had been at war since its middle period due to military separatism. Finally roving bandits were rampant; that is to say, peasants rose up for revolution which led to the extinction of the country. During that same period, similar scenes played out on the Korean peninsula. The Silla Dynasty reached its end after going through a chaotic middle and late period. Peasant uprisings took place and finally it was replaced by the Korean Goryeo Dynasty. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Should Japan give the Diaoyus (Senkaku) to China? By Brad Williams March 1, 2011 3156 reads Japan’s arrest in September last year of a Chinese fishing boat captain for ramming Japanese Coast Guard vessels in disputed waters sparked renewed tensions with China. China’s hard-line response to the arrest and Japan’s obsequiousness during the crisis was, in many ways, a reflection of changing power relations between the two Asian giants. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Historic interactions among China, Korea and Japan (I): a new chapter to Reading the Mirrors of History By Cheng-li Lu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2011 7716 reads My book Reading the Mirrors of History was published by Yuan-Liu Publication Co. Ltd. in July 2010. The content of the book divides ancient and modern histories of East Asia into four periods and each covers several hundred years; 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Real Lesson of Pearl Harbor By James Bradley February 1, 2011 3451 reads On the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, Flags of Our Fathers author James Bradley explains how the U.S. under Teddy Roosevelt first meddled in Asian affairs--and why we're playing a dangerous game in doing so again. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Mycological Association of North American By Weiwei Li and Xiaoyang Dai Translator Sheng-Wei Wang February 1, 2011 5522 reads I discovered this mushroom association from my newspaper. The Washington Post reported in this way: “On day x of month y, the Mycological Association of Washington, Inc. (including the Washington, D.C. area and its suburban Maryland and Virginia States, and the surrounding areas) will host a banquet for tasting wild mushrooms. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The perils of ignoring China ---Teddy Roosevelt's lessons for Obama By James Bradley January 1, 2011 3196 reads Editor’s Note: We thank Mr. James Bradley for giving us the permission of publishing this article which first appeared on www.FoxNews.com on November 16, 2010. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The American adoption family I know of By Author Meixin Dai Translator Sheng-Wei Wang January 1, 2011 3917 reads In the United States when you see a White couple with a child that has black hair and yellow skin, you need not ask as you know that the child was adopted from the Orient. Our friends Bob (Robert) and Anna adopted before 2004 a baby girl Daniella from Sichuan, China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Analyzing the quantitative easing policy By Yishan Xin Translator Sheng-Wei Wang December 1, 2010 3655 reads Quantitative easing is a monetary policy by which the central bank increases the money supply through open market operations. It can be considered as creating a specified amount of money "out of nothing" and has also been simply described as printing money indirectly. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The social exchange By Danny H. Wang December 1, 2010 3886 reads Imagine your university’s administration finding a picture of you dressed in drag on Facebook and expelling you for said drag. For college student Michael Guinn, being expelled from his university because of Facebook is exactly what happened. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Grand strategy for ultimately winning the international exchange rate war --- working together globally on the World Currency Primary By Charley Fei (Shuiyu Fei) and Zhongjia Pang Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2010 4451 reads The United States, the world currency hegemon, has recognized that the effort of using diplomatic means to pressure China one-on-one to appreciate the Renminbi (RMB) has failed. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Gaining Insight on Foreign Relations from the Perspectives of Taiwan and the Diaoyu Islands By Ligong Yu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2010 3198 reads On September 18 this year, the author mentioned in the article entitled "Reviewing the Past, Look into the Future from the Diaoyu Islands" that the United States, after the attack by Japan in 1941 and in order to encourage China to intensify the war against the Japanese aggression, planned the Cairo Declaration (at the end of 1943) that aimed at safeguarding the interests of China. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Towards "democracy of the twenty-first century" ──discussion on China's road of political reform: optimization, innovation and beyond (I) By Zhongjia Pang    Final revision and English translation by Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2010 4712 reads The first draft of this article was published on July 19, 2003, by www.xslx.com. In the seven years since then, the world situation has evolved; in particular, the development and change of China and the international situation after the outbreak of the current round of financial crisis indicate that the content of this article is still relevant and remains forward-looking. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Towards "democracy of the twenty-first century"──discussion on China's road of political reform: optimization, innovation and beyond (II) By Zhongjia Pang    Final revision and English translation by Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2010 3617 reads This shows that the dual parliament and bicameral systems, and the corresponding checks and balances, which are used by the modern democratic nations, have come to the point of requiring a serious review. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Towards "democracy of the twenty-first century"─discussion on China's road of political reform: optimization, innovation and beyond (III) By Zhongjia Pang    Final revision and English translation by Sheng-Wei Wang October 1, 2010 4375 reads Based on the current system in China, the establishment of the ASC may follow the line of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) framework that has worked as a political showpiece for more than half a century. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Asymmetrical Regionalism: China, Southeast Asia and Uneven Development By Mark Beeson September 1, 2010 6866 reads Is the much discussed ‘rise of China’ a threat or an opportunity for the rest of the region of which it has historically been such a dominant part? This question is an especially pressing concern for the countries of Southeast Asia as they try to come to terms with a neighbor which dwarfs them economically, strategically and even demographically. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Sino-U.S. Sister City Relations: Subnational Networks and Paradiplomacy By Benjamin Leffel August 1, 2010 5290 reads **The full report can be requested from Otterbein’s Courtright Memorial Library** 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Advance of China’s State Sector: Some Implications for the China’s Economy By Jialin Zhang August 1, 2010 4003 reads Since the introduction of market-oriented economic reforms in the early 1980s, China’s government has encouraged private sector growth of the national economy, and downgraded the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Quality Control By Alex Lo July1, 2010 3072 reads When The New York Times recently ran a major story about China becoming the world's second-greatest producer of science papers after the US, the subtext was not lost on its readers. Besides challenging the United States as the pre-eminent economic power, China is also becoming a science powerhouse. What the article did not say is that quantity does not equate to quality. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 U.S. Is the Factor Affecting the Cross-Strait Mutual Trust By Li Jiaquan Translator Sheng-Wei wang July 1, 2010 3116 reads Editor’s Note: We thank the editor of the China Review News for the permission of translating this article into English and publishing it on www.ChinaUSFriendship.com. The article first appeared on http://www.chinareviewnews.com, 2009-11-20 00:19:35. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China Unbound By John Lee June 1, 2010 3171 reads Editor’s Note: We thank the Project Syndicate for giving us the permission to publish this article. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 No Intention of Bad-mouthing Taiwan, Justifiably Worn Down by Worry By I-Ju Tsai Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2010 3781 reads Editor’s Note: We thank the editor of www.chinareviewnews.com for permitting us to translate this article into English and publish both the English and the Chinese versions on www.ChinaUSFriendship.com. The Chinese article was first published by www.chinareviewnews.com on February 26, 2010. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Saving the US or Pursuing Balanced Growth? China's Dilemma in the Global Crisis By Ho-fung Hung May 1, 2010 4667 reads Editor’s Note: We thank Professor Ho-fung Hung for permitting us to publish this article. An extended version entitled “America's Head Servant?”(New Left Review 60, November-December 2009) has been published on http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2809. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Rethink the Real Estate Issues in China By Hu Zipu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang May 1, 2010 3088 reads After several visits to the motherland, on the one hand I was happy and proud of the achievements obtained during the country's economic takeoff; on the other hand, I had a strong concern deep in my heart, in particular, about the current overheated real estate market. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 French Quarterly ChinePlus Interviews China-U.S. Friendship Exchange President Sheng-Wei Wang on Sino-U.S. Relations Guest Sheng-Wei Wang Host Pierre Tiessen April 1, 2010 3315 reads Editor’s Note: The French version of this interview report will be published by the 2010 June issue of the ChinePlus. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Chinese or American? Or Both? By Amy Ku April 1, 2010 3245 reads Because I grew up in white affluent neighborhoods, I never had any Asian friends until I went away to college where the majority of the friends I made were Chinese. For a really long time, before college, I did not want to have anything to do with being Chinese at all. I wanted to so desperately to be American, and only American. One may ask, what does it mean to be American? 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Letter from a Chinese Web User to U.S. President Barack Obama By LTML Translator CHSHH Last Edited by Yeshua March 1, 2010 3500 reads This is a letter (http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/showthread.php?t=12869) to U.S. President Barack Obama from "LTML", a Chinese Internet user. President Obama and all Americans should read it carefully and seriously. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Antagonize China? By George Gilder March 1, 2010 3111 reads While attempting to appease a long list of utterly unappeasable foes—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, Hezbollah, and even Hugo Chávez—today the U.S. treats China, perhaps our most crucial economic partner, as an adversary because it defies us on global warming, dollar devaluation, and Internet policy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Being ABC By Amy Ku February 1, 2010 3868 reads Ten years ago, if people asked me what I was, I had a default answer, “I dunno; I’m from New Jersey.” Today, if people ask me what I am, I respond “I’m Chinese, born in New Jersey.” This path to self-discovery and identity formation has not been an easy one; not to mention that it is still an ongoing journey that will most likely end, only after I have passed on, with my children or my children’s children. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Mystery of Zheng He and America By Siu-Leung Lee February 1, 2010 8015 reads A 7-cm diameter plain brass medallion with the inscription “Authorized and awarded by XuanDe of Great Ming” was unearthed 4 inches under the surface, several hundred miles inland from the American east coast， 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Tiger in the Art of Chinese Language By Peter C. Chieh February 1, 2010 3598 reads The big bang theory considers the universe to be still expanding, while the solar system moves with the galaxy on its own track toward a destination unknown to us. Similarly, history marches forward with a frontier we call now. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Why Does the U.S. Dollar Continue to Slide? By Gong Shengli Translator Sheng-Wei Wang January 1, 2010 6036 reads Since early October 2009, the U.S. dollar, measured against a basket of currencies of other major countries, fell to a new low below that reached during the financial tsunami in 2008. This means that the trend of a weakening dollar has re-intensified and has become a general tendency that has been out of control since the start of the 21st century. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Taking Care in the Flu Season By Peter C. Chieh January 1, 2010 2741 reads I am not a medical doctor or a health care worker. I claim no authority but I feel strongly about giving my opinion when I have one. Recently, the onset of the swine flu and the general flu made me sit down at the keyboard. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Response to Essays by Joseph Nye and M.D. Nalapat By David S. Mason December 1, 2009 4395 reads Editor's Note: See www.endoftheamericancentury.blogspot.com for David S. Mason's blog associated with his book; the dialogue published on www.chinausfriendship.com on November 1, 2009, also shows on site: http://endoftheamericancentury.blogspot.com/2009/11/dialogue-and-forum-on-end-of-american.html 【Full Story】 【Comments】 To Live up to Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Needs China By George Koo December 1, 2009 3183 reads No doubt President Barrack Obama woke up with the biggest surprise of his life when he found out that he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, he understood that the award was not for what he has done but for the vision of world peace he has been promoting. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Dialogue with Professor David S. Mason, Author of The End of the American Century Guest: David S. Mason Host: Sheng-Wei Wang November 1, 2009 5223 reads We are very happy to invite David S. Mason, professor of political science at Butler University in Indianapolis to discuss his 2009 book The End of the American Century. This new book was described by reviewers as “compelling and persuasive” and “the first to explore all of the interrelated aspects of America’s decline.” Professor Mason has published dozens of articles and six books on international politics, U.S. foreign policy, European politics and history, revolutions, public opinion, and concepts of social justice. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Comment #1: American Power in the Twenty-First Century By Joseph S. Nye November 1, 2009 4277 reads The United States government’s National Intelligence Council projects that American dominance will be “much diminished” by 2025, and that the one key area of continued American superiority – military power – will be less significant in the increasingly competitive world of the future. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Comment #2: Peace, Not War, the Best Strategy By Madhav Das Nalapat November 1, 2009 4224 reads Although there has been some mockery of the Nobel Committee's award of the Peace Prize to US President Barack H Obama, the choice was a recognition of a reality that has been obscured since World War II: which is that the true strength, the power, of the US vests not in its weapons or in its armies, but in the syncretistic values of the American people. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 To Simplify Or Not To Simplify Chinese Words? By Peter Chung Chieh October 1, 2009 3698 reads People growing up outside Chinese culture often say: "The Chinese language is only for Chinese to learn," because they find it so difficult to learn.Slowly but surely, Chinese is becoming an important language. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Working with China By Tom Plate October 1, 2009 2819 reads Editorial Note: We thank Professor Tom Plate for giving us the permission to translate this article into Chinese and publish both the English and the Chinese versions on www.ChinaUSFriendship.com. The English article was initially published by www.scmp.com on May 18, 2009. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Where Does the Supranational International Currency of Constant Value Come from? --New Concept and Framework of the World Currency Primary By Charley Fei (Shuiyu Fei) and Zhongjia Pang Translator Sheng-Wei Wang September 1, 2009 14774 reads The strong catalytic influence of the current financial crisis has strengthened the cry for world monetary reform and turned it into a big issue that can no longer be ignored by the international financial world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Tit-for-tat between Chinese and American Think Tanks at RAND Corporation By Yifeng Tian Translator Sheng-Wei Wang August 1, 2009 3242 reads In response to an invitation of the world famous U.S. think tank, the RAND Corporation, I accompanied a delegation on a working visit to this well-known institution. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China's Attempts to Reform Rural Land Rights By Jialin Zhang August 1, 2009 3817 reads Ever since China embarked on its economic reforms some 30 years ago, the country’s agricultural development has always lagged behind overall economic growth. The income gap between farmers and urban residents also consistently increased, making rural areas one of the unstable factors in China’s political and economic life. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How East Asians View Democracy (I) By Andrew J. Nathan, Yun-han Chu and Joanne J. Myers July 1, 2009 5718 reads China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc. thanks the Carnegie Council, Madeleine Lynn, Web and Print Editor of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the three experts and scholars of this talk for generously giving the permission for translating the transcript into Chinese and publishing both versions on www.ChinaUSFriednship.com. The transcript and author introductions were first published on http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/0085.html on November 10, 2008. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How East Asians View Democracy (II) By Andrew J. Nathan, Yun-han Chu and Joanne J. Myers July 1, 2009 4174 reads Table 1.3: What do people think it is? We asked an open-ended question. It's the only open-ended question in this survey: "What does democracy mean to you?" It's very expensive in survey research to ask an open-ended question, because your interviewer has to write it down and somebody else has to code it into categories. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Examine the Translocation of the Victorious and the Defeated Nations through the Issue of Taiwan Status By Ligong Yu Translator Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2009 4089 reads On May 1, Masaki Saito, the Office Chief of Japan's Interchange Association in Taipei made a public statement in Taiwan saying "Taiwan's status is undetermined." 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Liu Qiu Islands (Ryukyu Islands) Is No Japanese Territory--It Should Resume Independence as a Buffer Zone By Tieh-lin Yin June 1, 2009 5968 reads Japan lost all its occupied foreign territories such as Korea, Taiwan and the Liu Qiu Islands in 1945 after its unconditional surrender in World War II as agreed upon by all victorious allied nations. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Would GM Get a Party Secretary, Chinese Style? By Wendy Liu June 1, 2009 3233 reads I may not know very well the significance behind the 50-some-year-old saying: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country". I also do not quite follow the complex discussions over GM's probable bankruptcy. But I have no doubt about what I have seen in GM in the past few months of this ongoing bailout saga: trappings of a China-type SOE, or state-owned-enterprise. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Does High Seas Drama Portend Economic Doom for the U.S.? By George Koo May 1, 2009 3065 reads The U.S. and Chinese military appeared to be engaged in another round of brinksmanship. Eight years ago, it was over a collision of planes over Hainan Island. This time, it is the near collision of ships on the high seas near Hainan. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Last Generation of Nei Di Ren By Huai-Nan Xin Translator K. C. Lu May 1, 2009 3276 reads The last generation of Nei Di Ren (people from the hinterland) refers to a group of people who were born between 1937 and 1950 in mainland China or Hong Kong, grew up in Taiwan, and now reside in the United States. We are a minority among minorities. Fifty years from now, when Chinese historians study this period, they will find that we, the Nei Di Ren, are a unique group of people. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Rubbish by Rottenwood By Yi-Cheng Chang April 1, 2009 3045 reads The letter below was first published on February 11, 2009, by the Indian Tribune, a weekly journal for thinking Indians. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Who Killed Wall Street? By Gong Shengli Translators Sheng-Wei Wang and Julian Loui April 1, 2009 3496 reads Editorial Note: This article was written in late 2008 by the author while President Bush was still in office. It helps us to track back the development of this financial crisis since its beginning. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Crosstalk with Dr. Thomas P. M. Barnett, Author of Great Powers: America and the World After Bush Guest: Thomas P. M. Barnett Host: Sheng-Wei Wang March 1, 2009 6820 reads We are very happy to invite Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett to our Crosstalk interview. This is the first time that the China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc. hosts an interview with a renowned expert on U.S.-China relations. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 10 Comments by Experts and Readers on “Crosstalk with Dr. Thomas P. M. Barnett, Author of Great Powers: America and the World After Bush” By Tze-chung Li Edward MacLean Peter Chung Chieh Yi-Cheng Chang George Koo Michael Levy Anonymous Readers March 1, 2009 5189 reads This Crosstalk was hosted by Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang, President, China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc. (For this email interview report, please see www.chinausfriendship.com, 03/01/2009) 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Undeniable Trajectory: Deng Chose Wisely By Thomas P. M. Barnett February 1, 2009 4253 reads An excerpt from Thomas P.M. Barnett’s new book Great Powers: America and the World After Bush 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Foreign Policy of the United States and General Sun Li-jen By Peter Chung Chieh February 1, 2009 4993 reads Sun Li-jen (1899 - 1990), the ever victorious General, is one of the most admired and respected figures in modern Chinese history. He was an engineer, a scholar, a soldier, and most important of all, an able general whose soldiers always won in battles. General Sun, having done no wrong, never suspected his countrymen to harm him. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Goodbye Rat and Hello Ox By Peter Chung Chieh January 1, 2009 3101 reads We have had good times and bad times. I faced the question of survival during my childhood. Yet, folks came to my rescue. These benefactors played their parts in shaping what I am today, and to them I am forever grateful. Wishing them a happy Chinese New Year brings happiness to all. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Reasons Why Obama Needs New Start with China By George Koo January 1, 2009 3401 reads This article first appeared on http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/JL04Cb01.html The Barack Obama administration takes office in January on the promise of change, and one of the most critical changes he can make is to reboot US relations with China based on mutual respect and shared interests. A strong and positive alliance with China is more important now than ever. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New Rules Needed for Hong Kong's "Big Market, Small Government" Concept (Letter to the Editor The Standard, Hong Kong) By Kam-tim Siu December 1, 2008 4856 reads The mainland is not alone anymore in its state and macroeconomic controls, as seen by the buying of financial institutions by the United States and European countries. It is a controversial issue politically. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Interview Addresses U.S. Meeting Challenges in Its World Role and Relations with China (I) Guest Sheng-Wei Wang Interviewer Andrew Evans December 1, 2008 3476 reads Transcript adapted from the audio file produced by www.blogtalkradio.com/centerlane, which records live interview of Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang, President of the China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, by Andrew Evans, Chairman of the American Centrist Party (ACP), in the ACP Center Lane Internet Radio Show on 10/02/2008. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Interview Addresses U.S. Meeting Challenges in Its World Role and Relations with China (II) Guest Sheng-Wei Wang Interviewer Andrew Evans December 1, 2008 3646 reads Transcript adapted from the audio file produced by www.blogtalkradio.com/centerlane, which records live interview of Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang, President of the China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, by Andrew Evans, Chairman of the American Centrist Party (ACP), in the ACP Center Lane Internet Radio Show on 10/02/2008.. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Indian Style (II) By Calvin Tatsey November 1, 2008 3626 reads When I was a little kid by Willow Creek, I went over there to catch frogs. I started imitating those elders, ceremonially. I started singing some songs. These two muskrats swam up the creek and they went on the other side of the bank, crawled out of the water and sat there looking at me. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Indian Style (I) By Calvin Tatsey November 1, 2008 4719 reads Below, is a Picture of my Nawtoo (Holy) Ohtikunni (Medicine Chief) and Brother-in-the-Indian-way. It was taken on February 24, 2006 by my wife. He's pictured near his home at the time, the small-trailer. He's since moved up-in-the-World, and doesn't occupy the residence full-time anymore. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Religion: Letter to Sarah By Julian Loui November 1, 2008 3380 reads Dear Sarah, You asked me a very interesting question the other day. You said "Do you have religion?" 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Selling America and the Rest of the World Short By Michael Levy October 1, 2008 3419 reads "Oh! How the mighty have fallen", is a quote from the Old Testament that pertains to the collapse of past dynasties. In today's world, it deals with the downfall of the major infrastructure of capital markets in the USA and the systemic fallout all around the world. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Current Black Sea Imbroglio: A Challenge to World Peace By Ravindra Kumar October 1, 2008 3251 reads For centuries, due to its geographical status, the Black Sea region has been important particularly for the countries located around it. For them it has been the chief way of transportation. It is also important from the strategic point of view as it is close to the regions like the Caucasus, Tatarstan and Bashkorostan, which are known as oil-rich regions of the world. Furthermore, the Black Sea region is the only path through which a potential rival could threaten a powerful country like Russia from this area. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China's Gold Rush By Paul H. Tai September 1, 2008 6347 reads This article has also been published in July 2008 by The ELM, a monthly e-magazine. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A Drop of Truth and a Barrel of Propaganda By Michael Levy September 1, 2008 3488 reads It takes time to take a misrepresentation of authentic facts, turn it into propaganda and then hear prestigious and distinguished voices talk their truth which has grown out of the original fallacy. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 From Mourning Mao to Mourning the Masses By Wendy Liu August 1, 2008 3677 reads The whole China stopped for three minutes, people, work, traffic, with everybody standing in silence, heads bowed, with only sirens wailing and horns blaring, from Beijing to Nanjing, from Qinghai to Shanghai. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Reviewing the Evolution of Property Rights in China By Jialin Zhang August 1, 2008 3919 reads To promote a market economy, a society must have unambiguous, secure and alienable property rights. For over two thousand years, the concept of private property rights in China never existed. After the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), land ownership in China became dualistic: urban land belonged to the state, and rural land was owned by the collective. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How Well Do You Know Tibet? Or More Importantly, How Well Do You Know the Media and Politicians? (I) By Yi-Cheng Chang July 1, 2008 3722 reads In the Tang Dynasty (over 1100 years ago), Princess Wencheng (a daughter) of the Tang Emperor, was married to a tribe leader in Tibet. The relationship between the Tibetan and Han and other ethnic groups had been largely in harmony for over 1000 years. (Han is the majority ethnic group in China.) 【Full Story】 【Comments】 How Well Do You Know Tibet? Or More Importantly, How Well Do You Know the Media and Politicians? (II) By Yi-Cheng Chang July 1, 2008 3753 reads In the Tang Dynasty (over 1100 years ago), Princess Wencheng (a daughter) of the Tang Emperor, was married to a tribe leader in Tibet. The relationship between the Tibetan and Han and other ethnic groups had been largely in harmony for over 1000 years. (Han is the majority ethnic group in China.) 【Full Story】 【Comments】 China and the World - Expert Speaks on the Country's Changing Role Reporter Bhumika Ghimire Guest Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang June 1, 2008 3875 reads Published at News Front (Nepal) and Samaya Weekly (Nepali translation) on May 19, 2008, and the popular South Korean news Web site OhMyNews.com, which register as many as 15 million visits per day. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New Book, China's Ascendancy: Opportunity or Threat? and Book Reviews (9-11) By Sheng-Wei Wang (http://www.createspace.com/3339581 or http://www.amazon.com) May 1,2008 3810 reads China's Ascendancy by Sheng-Wei Wang is an extremely important book - a must read for a wide range of people whether they are governmental, military, business professionals, journalists, academics, or students. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 An Open Letter to The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives By One China Committee and China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc. May 1, 2008 3654 reads We support your position that the current unrest in Tibet should be resolved through peaceful dialogue between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese authorities. Such a dialogue is in fact taking place between the representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese authority (see www.bbsland.com, April 14, 2008). 【Full Story】 【Comments】 New Book, China's Ascendancy: Opportunity or Threat? and Book Reviews (1-8) By Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2008 3882 reads Definitely a "must read" book! With interdisciplinary training and multicultural background... 【Full Story】 【Comments】 A Roadmap for Improved Sino-U.S. Relations and Global Stability in the 21st Century By Sheng-Wei Wang April 1, 2008 3591 reads Text adapted from the audio file produced and provided by Francis Steffan, which records Sheng-Wei Wang's interview by the hosts of The Dr. Gianni Hayes' Radio Show... 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Tibet Unrest By Frank Ching April 1, 2008 3523 reads Just as Beijing prepares to bask in the glow of international acceptance of a rising, peaceful China... 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Problematic The One Child Family-China By Dr. Matt Marko, Ph.D. March 1, 2008 4104 reads The one child policy of China, while understandable that something was needed to be done due to the extreme population here, has also had its repercussions in the aspect of child rearing. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Convoluted Memories Over Chinese New Year By Peter C. Chieh March 1, 2008 3280 reads Chinese New Year (CNY) brings me convoluted memories. Celebrations continue. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Great Radio Show By Sheng-Wei Wang February 1, 2008 3947 reads Great Radio Show on WEDNESDAY, February 27, 2008: 9:00-10:00PM EST (EAST COAST TIME): "China's Ascendancy: Opportunity or Threat?" - A Roadmap for Improved Sino-U.S. Relations and Global Stability in the 21st Century 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Pizza Cathay By Alijandra Mogilner February 1, 2008 3859 reads When visiting China on business, your hosts will make sure you see local sights and are treated to some of the wonderful foods in that area. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Unification of Taiwan: Chinese Americans' Challenge By Tze-Chung Li January 1, 2008 4169 reads Taiwan is an integral part of China. Taiwan and China separated as a result of civil war in 1949, and since then have been governed separately. They are two political entities in China, but not two Chinas. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Indispensable Review of the Policy toward Taipei By Litai Xue December 1, 2007 3613 reads Taiwan's planned referendum on United Nations membership may damage its crucial ties to the United States, but President Chen Shui-bian will most likely continue to mobilize his supporters to defy American pressure and see the proposal through. Some of Chen's family members are being chased by his own prosecutors in criminal cases. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Stopping a Nuclear Arms Race between America and China (III) By Hugh White Posted December 1, 2007 3482 reads The idea of a deal like this has been raised occasionally as a possibility in the academic literature for some years, [24] and Kim Beazley sketched the case in a speech in Beijing in 2004. [25] But it is far from the political agendas in the US or China at present. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 The Globalization You Do Not Know About By Yuzhong Zhai Translator SOL Tung November 1, 2007 5791 reads From the ancient free trade theory of the British Empire to the present day theory of globalization, the right to speak has been the basis for hegemony in human economic history. 【Full Story】 【Comments】 Copyright © 2007 China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc. - All Rights Reserved. Terms Of Use Contact Us