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Embracing China
The transaction happened at the Central train station in Beijing. Our train from Irkutsk stopped at Platform Number One: two students from Yugoslavia got out of the empty first-class car. Received by two Chinese officials,
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China Before the Age of Yonder
More than forty years after its initial publication, Fanshen remains the essential volume for anyone fascinated by China’s revolutionary rural reform process. In the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power, tradition
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Putin’s Bomb Under the Negotiation Table
In my last Yonder, I mentioned the gigantic yet inelegant Nanjing Bridge, finished in 1968, at the peak of Maoism in China and abroad. Regardless of its remarkable 1576m length, the double-deck truss bridge was
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Nanjing Bridge to the World
1977, I packed my things and prepared for my second year in China. I was excited to move from Beijing, the capital of communist China, to Nanjing, the postimperial Kuomintang capital. I did not prefer
Geopolitics
The Biggest Geopolitical Game Ever
What impressed me the most about the 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Beijing was the image of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The first images of the Russian president showed him dozing off, his head
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Xi Jinping’s Game
A few days before the 2020 presidential election, America was in turmoil. While running for reelection, erratic President Trump was flying from one airport to another, landing for a couple of hours to make inflammatory
Taiwan
Intel Inside
During the later stages of Maoism, nobody paid much attention to Taiwan. It was the mid-seventies, and while the outside world was curious about mysterious Red China, the military regime in Taipei was an afterthought.
U.S.- China Relations
Biden’s China Currency
We live in uncertain times. The human race is facing its biggest crisis yet, perhaps similar to the one that extinguished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. This time around, though, the crisis may not
Geopolitics
Cold War’s (Climate) Change
The number of people infected by COVID-19 in the U.S. increases daily by 50,000. Since the beginning of the pandemic, it has reached more than five million, and 1000 Americans die every day (the death
China
Why Another Tiananmen Is Not Possible
I was not at Tiananmen in 1989, when for weeks thousands of students occupied the square, demanding more room in a modernizing China. Nor was I there in those horrid hours between the third and
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