China

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/15/19
  

  Hu Yaobang's Death 30 years ago was the spark for the Tiananmen Square protests

  He is mourned — to this day — by those who hail him as an anti-corruption reformer.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/14/19
  

  F.B.I. Bars Some China Scholars From Visiting U.S. Over Spying Fears

  The F.B.I. director, warned at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last year that China presented “a whole-of-society threat on their end” that required a “whole-of-society response.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/27/19
  

  19th-Century ‘Humiliation’ Haunts China-U.S. Trade Talks

  China is resisting the Trump administration’s demand that the United States be allowed to impose tariffs if Beijing fails to keep its promises.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/2/19
  

  The Island That Changed History

  by Sergey Radchenko

  A 1969 border clash between Moscow and Beijing pushed the two apart, and opened the door for Nixon to go to China.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  1/29/19
  

  Xi’s China Is Steamrolling Its Own History

  by Pamela Kyle Crossley

  “Historical nihilism” is nothing more than a denial that the past is fundamentally a resource to be plundered by the present.

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• 2/10/19
  

  We Need to Re-think Our Characterization of Trump’s Trade War, and “Mercantilism” Just Doesn’t Cut It

  by Randal Grant Kleiser

  Characterizing Trump as a “mercantilist” misleads the public into thinking he follows a stable, precedented, and predictable ideology on trade.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  1/7/19
  

  The Real History of Intellectual Piracy

  What China Can Learn From America

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  Accessed 1/7/19
  

  Hidden women of history: Hop Lin Jong, a Chinese immigrant in the early days of White Australia

  by Antonia Finnane

  An ordinary Chinese immigrant to Australia reveals an extraordinary story. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/1/19
  

  A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia

  by Amy Qin

  The photographer Li Zhensheng is on a mission to make his fellow Chinese remember one of the most turbulent chapters in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party is increasingly determined to whitewash.

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• 12-17-2018
  

  What Could Be the Consequence of Trump’s Decision to Intervene in the Arrest of that Chinese National in Canada?

  by Tom Clifford

  We can’t be sure and that’s what’s scary.

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• 11/20/18
  

  Trump Has Achieved the Nearly Impossible: He's Brought China and Japan Together

  by Tom Clifford

  How he did it.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  11-16-18
  

  Mini Terracotta Army Unearthed in China

  A Han Dynasty-era pit includes 300 soldiers, guard towers, farm animals and everything else a noble might need in the afterlife,

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Asia
  6-4-18
  

  Chinese Historian Fired After Tweeting That Chinese "Lie, Commit Fraud and Poison Each Other”

  "The highest achievements of the Chinese people consist of lying, cooking the books and issuing fake contracts."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  8-31-18
  

  What an Ancient Historian Says About the U.S.-China Clash

  Who came up with the Thucydides Trap?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  8-21-18
  

  Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  “America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  8-20-18
  

  China’s Museums Rewrite History to Boost Xi

  Renovations in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen add displays that extol Xi, while diluting Deng’s prominence in party lore.

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• SOURCE: RFA
  7-23-18
  

  China Holds Ethnic Mongolian Historian Who Wrote “Genocide” Book

  Ethnic Mongolian historian and author Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 74, is facing for prosecution for "separatism" and "sabotaging national unity,”

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• 6/17/18
  

  Is the West in Disarray?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  6-11-18
  

  Will Trump Be Nixon in China?

  by Andrew Preston

  The president's meeting with Kim Jong Un could go more like Eisenhower with Khrushchev—which wouldn't be good.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-8-18
  

  How a Chinese Manuscript Written 2,300 Years Ago Ended Up in Washington

  Written 2,300 years ago, it is a Chinese version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with text that swirls like the stars through the firmament and describes the relationship between humans and heaven.