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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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- The rise and fall of a migrant food cart in China, from Tricia Wang
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
links for 2007-07-18
U.S. ’08 campaign silence belies importance of China – Yahoo! News Food safety fears and broad economic concerns keep China in U.S. headlines, but the epochal rise of America’s greatest potential rival has barely rated a blip so far in … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-16
米国内の反日集団の実態ーー『中国「反日」の虚妄』(文春文庫)古森義久著から:イザ! 花崗齋雜記 Jottings from the Granite Studio: Urban Hiking Beijing: The Forbidden City BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Support for Japan PM ‘at new low’ According to a survey by Jiji Press, Mr Abe’s popularity stands at 25.7%, his worst … Continue reading
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Fun With Fat Stats
The BBC today ends a story about changes in Chinese efforts to decrease obesity with this useless statement: One-fifth of the world’s overweight and obese people live in China and the numbers are rising dramatically. Why useless? That doesn’t tell … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-13
China and Japan: Agreeing on History? Interview with Japanese Historian Shinichi Kitaoka – Helen Vatsikopoulos :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代 Professor Shinichi Kitaoka from Tokyo University, former deputy Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, heads the Japanese side of … Continue reading
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links for 2007-07-08
Observing Japan: Combating the China threat thesis Japan’s Ministry of Defense has issued its first white paper as the Ministry of Defense, and it seems that this year’s edition is unique in its focus on China as a threat to … Continue reading
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links for 2007-07-07
China’s eco-city faces growth challenge CDT on Dongtan Eco-City Ampontan – Raining on Mr. Abe’s Parade
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
I’m working on a big change for this site. For almost a year, I wrote from Washington, D.C. Over that time some of my goals have developed, and I have a more complete vision for what I’d like to create … Continue reading
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links for 2007-07-06
Top Democrat candidates back China currency bill – Yahoo! News Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Democratic front-runners in the November 2008 presidential race, signed on last week as co-sponsors of bipartisan legislation that … Continue reading
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links for 2007-07-05
The Declaration of Independence in Chinese Nanking – the film Japanese WW2 massacre film premieres in Beijing – Yahoo! News “Nanking,” a U.S.-made film documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened … Continue reading
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links for 2007-07-03
China takes up civic work in Africa 1,809 Chinese troops, police, military observers, and others are deployed worldwide. The majority – 1,273 – are here in Africa, building roads, setting up clinics, patrolling troubled villages
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