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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Asia and the world in the State of the Union
With a domestic economic focus expected to anchor the evening, the prepared text of U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union speech (according to WSJ) is similar to last year’s in its emphasis on Asia. At least measured … Continue reading →
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Two plausible views of Xi Jinping’s rise prove we’re clueless
Is Chinese Vice President and presumptive next President Xi Jinping a hard-liner who will return China to confrontations with the west? Or could it be that only a hard-liner could convince domestic nationalists that a more cooperative stance is beneficial … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Bruce Gilley, China, China–U.S., Daniel Drezner, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Pekinology, Richard Nixon, Xi Jinping
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Compassion and political advertising: the RNC’s new China ad
Evan Osnos pointed out a new advertisement that apparently marks the first use of China as a political tool in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The advertisement imagines a future in which Barack Obama is reelected and paints a picture … Continue reading →
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Tagged advertisement, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, China, China-U.S., compassion, Evan Osnos, humanism, politics, Video, Xi Jinping
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Asia in the State of the Union: Diligent competitors, trade partners
This post is based on the advance speech distributed by the White House and published on CNN.com. Over all, tonight’s state of the union speech appears to be light on foreign affairs. Here is a summary of the mentions of … Continue reading →
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Text of the U.S.–China joint statement
This idea stolen from Josh Rogin. I’m putting this here so I have it in the future. Source: White House. See also Rogin’s post on China bashing on Capitol Hill. The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, China–U.S., diplomacy, Hu Jintao, Josh Rogin
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Who is Liu Xiaobo, and what does the Nobel mean?
‘I have no enemies’ Liu Xiaobo in his own words from 2009, published at Foreign Policy (中文). This is published by Human Rights in China, headquartered in New York and Hong Kong. The scene outside Liu’s house. Used under Creative … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Evan Osnos, Gady Epstein, Jillian C. York, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize
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Noted: No mention of China in Obama press conference
The headlines says it all, and I’m not motivated to speculate on what this means at any length, but I didn’t remember anything on China in the Sept. 10 presser and did a word search on the transcript. Nothing. I … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, China–U.S., election, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, U.S. Election 2010
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A reasoned response to China hysteria
Nina Hachigian, a former National Security Council adviser during the late ’90s, writes a conspicuously reasonable-sounding response to the U.S. media’s increasingly alarmist reporting on the United States–China relationship. The early stages of the U.S.-China relationship during the Obama administration have … Continue reading →
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A strange photograph
U.S. President Barack Obama and PRC Premier Wen Jiabao were photographed in Copenhagen. Where the heck are they?
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Two things China and the U.S. can celebrate
Economic prosperity and basketball. Those are two things neither the United States nor China could seem to live without these days. This by way of mentioning the White House Flickr feed, which is pretty cool. Here, “Chinese Vice Premier Wang … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, basketball, China-U.S., Dai Bingguo, strategic dialogue, Wang Qishan
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