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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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- The China Tracker – Forbes
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
links for 2007-12-28
Japanese Dictionaries on Leopard (Muninn) The new Apple OS has Japanese dictionaries built in. (tags: japanese language technology apple leopard dictionary) NIPPON FALCONS LEAGUE Our blog’s intention is to request the US government to grant us a chance to defend our mother … Continue reading
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Bush and Chávez on Equal Ground in China
Chinochano notes [es] that most visits by foreign heads of state to China result in the same press release, names changed. In Spanish from the blog, here are the two hypothetical* examples. George W. Bush Hugo Chávez Pekín, 2 nov … Continue reading
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Librairie Avant-Garde – Brilliant Nanjing Bookstore
Today, just as my wandering was turning into a walk home, I passed the Librairie Avant-Garde in Nanjing, a bookstore in an apparently never-used parking garage. Needless to say, I was not able to resist. Though its selection of foreign-language … Continue reading
Hitting the Road: Nanjing, Shanghai, and ???
I’m going to be bouncing around China a bit after more than four months in Beijing. I am flying tomorrow (Tuesday) from Beijing to Nanjing, where I will be doing some reporting and research. I’ll be heading to Shanghai around … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-06
Why China cracked down on my nonprofit (Christian Science Monitor) (tags: China ngo censorship) China expresses “grave concern” that USS Kitty Hawk passed Taiwan on way back to Japan (AP) (tags: china-us military taiwan navy) France and the ecological new … Continue reading
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Tom Daschle on China-U.S. Environment Cooperation
My former employer, CampusProgress.org at the Center for American Progress, has published a lengthy piece by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (a senior fellow at CAP) on U.S.-China environmental responsibility. His central argument is that a leadership vacuum … Continue reading
Staging for the Beijing Olympics—in Japan
Noted without comment. A large travel agency is planning a big promotion overseas to get foreign sports teams to stay in Japan before going on to Beijing for the start of next year’s Olympic games. They are touting the facilities, … Continue reading
Me in the Boston Globe on Deval Patrick and China
Among the several reasons this site has been slow recently is that I’ve had a glut of work. Yesterday, I covered Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s trip to China. The story appears in Tuesday’s Boston Globe business section. Gov. Patrick pushes … Continue reading
