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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: May 2008
‘Malaysia Bans Foreigners’? Look again.
An inexplicably terse headline has been making its rounds in my news feeds for the last couple of days. It would be big news, if only it were true. “Malaysia Bans Foreigners,” cries the headline of an AP story published … Continue reading
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Tagged gasoline, International Herald Tribune, Malaysia, oil, Singapore, Thailand
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Bank of America and China Construction Bank, or No-Fee USD Withdrawls in China
My personal favorite transpacific investment tie-up is one that made a frustrating and expensive process free, if not easy. Bank of America has an 8.2 percent stake in China Construction Bank (jiàn háng), a major institution that went public in … Continue reading
Tagged ATM, bank, Bank of America, China, China Construction Bank, China-U.S., currency, economy, investment, money, Renminbi, U.S. Dollar
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Demonstrations in Tokyo During Hu Visit: Could Be Worse
From Reuters: But even as Hu spoke, about 200 protesters waved signs outside the university gate saying “Free Tibet” and “No Pandas, No Poison Dumplings,” the latter referring to Hu’s offer to lend two pandas to a Tokyo zoo and … Continue reading
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Tagged China-Japan, China-Japan, demonstrations, Fukuda Yasuo, Hu Jintao, Nationalism, Tokyo, Waseda University
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How to ‘Pressure’ ‘the Chinese’ on Human Rights
At Foreign Policy, former Amnesty International Executive Director William F. Schultz considers how to “pressure Beijing.” Aside from taking a little too literally Chinese government statements about “the Chinese” and their supposed hurt feelings, Schultz, who is now a senior … Continue reading
Celebrating May Fourth With Slow Internet
The internet is unusually sluggish today. I wrote a bit about some possible reasons why at Sinobyte. Blogspot has re-disappeared, MSN Messenger is inaccessible from an artsy Beijing cafe, searches for Carrefour are just back from going unanswered, and the … Continue reading