Year: 2018

As U.S. Trumpets ‘America First-’ Rest of the World Is Moving On – The New York Times

January 25, 2018 / Globalization and Trade, Trade and Trade Policy

WASHINGTON — President Trump is arriving at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to explain his “America First” approach at a moment when the world is moving ahead with a trade agenda that no longer revolves around the United States. The world marked a turning point in global trade on Tuesday, when 11 countries …

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The Truth Behind ‘A Bright Shining Lie’ by Neil Sheehan- The New York Times

January 18, 2018 / Vietnam-American War

More than 58,000 United States soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but in the world of letters, the death of a single American civilian came to represent the entire jungle quagmire. John Paul Vann went down in a helicopter crash on June 9, 1972. Four presidential administrations and a societal shift in recognizing Vietnam veterans …

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Olympic Détente Upends U.S. Strategy on North Korea – The New York Times

January 18, 2018 / David Lindsay, Korea - North and South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea reached an agreement Wednesday for their athletes to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month, a powerful gesture of reconciliation that further complicates President Trump’s strategy for dealing with the nuclear-armed regime of Kim Jong-un. South Korea, the host …

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Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested – The New York Times

January 17, 2018 / China, Military Affairs and Espionage

WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The collapse of the spy network was one of the American government’s worst intelligence failures in recent years. The arrest of the former officer, Jerry Chun …

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Opinion | Why China’s Good Environmental Policies Have Gone Wrong – NYT

January 15, 2018 / China, Climate Change Remediation

Stange article, with some questionalbe assertions, such as, there is no data on the kinds of air pollution that China faces. This assertion is false. Other counties have already studied these pollutants. There is lots of good data.What is striking, is that cancer is the leading cause of death in China, and lung cancer is …

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Energy initiative to cut smog worsens winter gas shortage – China Daily

January 15, 2018 / China, Climate Change Remediation

By HOU LIQIANG/DU JUAN/ZHENG JINRAN/ZHANG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2017-12-15 06:52 Surging demand for cleaner fuel affects household heating and pushes up market prices Authorities in Shaanxi province limited the amount of liquefied natural gas cab drivers can purchase. [Photo/CHINA NEWS SERVICE] Every day, before starting his shift, taxi driver Zhong Guishun heads …

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In Africa- Geneticists Are Hunting Poachers. (Many of the big traffickers are Vietnamese and Chinese!) NYT

January 9, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China, Population Growth, The Sixth Extinction of Species

Published by David Lindsay ·  Many of the big traffickers are Vietnamese and Chinese! “South African authorities long had eyes on Rogers Mukwena. They knew the former schoolteacher was wanted in Zimbabwe for poaching rhinoceroses and selling their horns, which can command hundreds of thousands of dollars. He’d jumped bail and fled to northern Pretoria, but it …

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Review: ‘The Road Not Taken’ in Vietnam – (Edward Lansdale) – WSJ

January 9, 2018 / Vietnam-American War, Vietnamese History, Vietnamese Literature

By Robert D. Kaplan Jan. 5, 2018 4:34 p.m. ET 15 COMMENTS “Edward Lansdale (1908-87) was one of America’s most important military thinkers and practitioners, and yet he is barely known to the wider world. In “The Road Not Taken,” Max Boot aptly calls him “the American T.E. Lawrence ”: eccentric, rebellious and charismatic, a …

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Trial Over Theft of Wind Technology Spotlights U.S.-China Tensions – WSJ

January 9, 2018 / Business and Finance, China, Intellectual Property Rights

By Erin Ailworth Jan. 6, 2018 7:00 a.m. ET 21 COMMENTS “A dispute over the alleged theft of wind-turbine technology is slated to go to trial in Wisconsin on Monday in a test case for intellectual-property battles between the U.S. and China. Federal prosecutors accuse Chinese wind-turbine maker Sinovel Wind Group Co. Ltd. of stealing …

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