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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.
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Will Kyoto’s Successor Count ‘Outsourced Pollution’?
If a product is consumed in one country, and it is manufactured in another, which country is responsible for the carbon emissions from manufacture? And if one country outsources manufacturing to a country with more lax environmental regulation, who’s responsible … Continue reading
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Tagged Bali, carbon, China, China-U.S., efficiency, Environment, Kyoto Protocol, outsourcing, The Wall Street Journal
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Stat: Chinese Students in U.S. Double Since 2003
From Sheila Dewan, “Chinese Students in U.S. Fight View of Their Home ,” The New York Times, April 29, 2008 Last year, there were more than 42,000 students from mainland China studying in the United States, an increase from fewer … Continue reading
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China’s Growing Ties With the UAE
The China Brief from the Jamestown Foundation examines ties between China and the United Arab Emirates. Since establishing diplomatic ties on November 1, 1984, the political, economic and trade relations between the UAE and China have evolved significantly in both … Continue reading
Tagged China, China, China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, Links, UAE
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Wasserstrom on the History of Chinese Boycotts
In The Nation, University of California, Irvine Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes on some recent and not-so-recent history of anti-foreign boycotts in China: Between the 1910s and 1930s, several foreign powers found themselves the target of Chinese student-led boycotts. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged boycott, China, China, history, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, May Fourth Movement, Olympics
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Selden: How can the U.S. criticize Japanese atrocities?
Mark Selden, coordinator of Japan Focus, asks: [M]ore than six decades since Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War, by what right does an American critically address issues of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan’s wartime atrocities? Stated differently, in the course … Continue reading
‘Conquer English to Make China Stronger!’
Ampontan points out that the media’s love for Li Yang’s instructional rallies and methods, called Crazy English, recently included a New Yorker article by Evan Osnos. I’m pretty happy with myself because with my Mandarin tutor today I finished a … Continue reading
Tagged Ampontan, China, China, China-Japan, Crazy English, English, Evan Osnos, Language, Li Yang, Nationalism
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Top Japanese Officials Not Among Politicians Visiting Yasukuni
Tis the season for Yasukuni Shrine visits. Between 62 (per Mainichi) and more than 150 (per AP) Japanese lawmakers visited the shrine on the traditional occasion of the spring holiday. But Jun Okumura notes that none of the very top … Continue reading
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Tagged Fukuda Yasuo, Ishiba Shigeru, Komura Masahiko, Machimura Nobutaka, Nationalism, Yasukuni Jinja
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‘China Can Say No’ Writer: Japan Less of a Problem Than U.S.
Danwei today posted an excellent set of material on the 1996 book China Can Say No (中国可以说不). The book was influential in Chinese nationalism and follows a 1989 book by Japanese novelist-turned-governor-of-Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro, and a top Sony executive, Morita Akio, … Continue reading
I’m a Twit. Follow me on Twitter.
After meeting with a fellow blogger in Beijing I decided it might be time to give Twitter a shot. So far, I haven’t been completely consumed and I like it. Follow me there. I’m gwbstr. follow gwbstr at http://twitter.com
Beijing Traffic in 1981. And a Change on This Site.
An interesting passage and a mini-site announcement today. First: Danwei announced they’d begin republishing old stories from former Daily Telegraph Beijing correspondent Graham Earnshaw, who held the post from 1980 to 1984. The first article they posted is interesting mostly … Continue reading