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Transpacifica is primarily written by me, Graham Webster. I'm an analyst, journalist, and consultant on East Asian politics and technology. Here, I write about East Asian politics mostly in China and Japan, the Internet and society, the environment, and contemporary art. Unavoidably, I sometimes veer off topic—even with a topic as large as the Pacific.
By day, I work at the EastWest Institute in New York City, but all opinions are my own and do not represent EWI or any of my other clients or employers.
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- Key U.S.–Japan meeting overshadowed by U.S.–China diplomacy
- ‘National interests’ and dealing with U.S.–China distrust
- A great paragraph: Wen Jiabao as prodding CCP rule
- Some notes on This American Life’s retraction episode #Apple #China
- The rise and fall of a migrant food cart in China, from Tricia Wang
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- Frog in a Well – The China History Group Blog
- Frog in a Well – The Japan History Group Blog
- Japan Focus
- RConversation
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- YouMeiTi 有媒体 – Tricia Wang
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- China and the World – Ella Chou
- China Digital Times
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- China Law Blog
- China Media Project at HKU
- Dance to the Revolution – Ella Chou
- Danwei.org
- EastSouthWestNorth
- James Fallows
- Letters from China – Evan Osnos, The New Yorker
- See China
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
links for 2007-05-30
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | US fears grow over China military A Pentagon report given to Congress says Beijing is spending far more on its military budget than admitted and calls for greater transparency. China accuses Pentagon of spreading false … Continue reading
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Zoellick on China: The Washington Consensus?
President George W. Bush is expected to appoint his former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick as head of the World Bank, replacing his former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz. Zoellick, who says has lived in Hong Kong, in … Continue reading
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Tagged China, China-U.S., Economics, Robert Zoellick, United States, World Bank, Zheng Bijian
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Hiatus
I’ll be away from the computers until May 28. Until then, read a book!
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links for 2007-05-25
花崗齋雜記 Jottings from the Granite Studio: Korea Times: “US Textbook Wrongly Identifies Korea’s First Kingdom” People’s Daily Online — China, Japan to hold 8th round of East China Sea talks Ronald Reagan Diary: Nakasone Was Japan’s Greatest Prime Minister » … Continue reading
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“Article 9 is the ‘God of Peace’ that Saves Humanity”
That’s the title of a new entry into the Article 9 discussion from Japanese blogger Amaki Naoto. He gives a harsh assessment of U.S. failures in the Middle East, saying that after the Cold War “the Middle East became the … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-24
People’s Daily Online — China hands over new batch of assistance materials for Sudan’s Darfur People’s Daily Online — China mulls reform of household registration system The central government is considering a proposal from the Ministry of Public Security to … Continue reading
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Jay Leno the Nationalist
Marxy has an old ad for Doritos that strikes U.S. nationalist notes, apparently from when the threat of Japanese high tech industries was a much-touted “problem” in the United States. The last line? “You won’t find a chip like this … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-23
FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China – China shelves real-name blogging plan China has put aside proposals to force internet users to use their real names when signing up for blogging services – and will now merely encourage them to do … Continue reading
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Sloppiness in James Mann’s ‘China Fantasy’
I’m half done reading journalist James Mann’s The China Fantasy: How our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, and it’s an interesting, if controversial, read. One thing stands out so far: Mann’s relationship with evidence is strained, and he sometimes fails … Continue reading
