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‘Trump Is Better’: In Asia, Pro-Democracy Forces Worry About Biden

December 22, 2020 / David Lindsay, East Asia, Foreign Affairs and U.S.ForeignPolicy

“BANGKOK – A dissident once branded Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese Communist Party is spreading conspiracy theories about vote-rigging in the American presidential election. Pro-democracy campaigners from Hong Kong are championing President Trump’s claims of an electoral victory. Human rights activists and religious leaders in Vietnam and Myanmar are expressing reservations about President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s ability …

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Opinion | Cooperative Competition Is Possible Between China and the U.S.

December 18, 2020 / China, David Lindsay, United States

This is a well-crafted op-ed with many excellent points. But what about self-determination for the Uigers, the Taiwanese, or the other countries, the ASEAN countries, that also call the South China Sea home? Hopefully Joe Biden will bring the US back into the TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership. Acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote …

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After Trump, Biden Faces Pressure to Stand Up to China by Embracing Taiwan

December 18, 2020 / China, Foreign Affairs and U.S.ForeignPolicy

“TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Trump has made cultivating closer ties with Taiwan a critical part of his efforts to counter China’s rising influence. He has significantly increased weapons sales to Taiwan’s military, vowed to step up economic cooperation, and generally bolstered relations with the self-ruled democratic island — even in his waning days. His successor, President-elect Joseph R. Biden …

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Opinion | Xi Jinping’s Strength is China’s Weakness

December 18, 2020 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China

“SYDNEY, Australia – President Xi Jinping has accumulated legions of powerful critics in China since he took office in early 2013. There are the once-powerful officials who have been felled by his sweeping anti-corruption campaign. There are the economists who resist his statist instincts. There are the academics who have objected to his authoritarian measures, …

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Opinion | John Kerry: China’s Chance to Save Antarctic Sealife

December 18, 2020 / China, Climate Change Remediation, Environment

“Even as the United States and China confront deep disagreements, there is a global challenge that simply won’t wait for the resolution of our differences: climate change. While some have decided that we are entering a new Cold War with China, we can still cooperate on critical mutual interests. After all, even at the height …

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Opinion | China Has a New Plan to Tame Tibet

December 18, 2020 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China

“Before Xinjiang, there was Tibet. Repressive policies tested there between 2012 and 2016 were then applied to the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in northwestern China: entire cities covered in surveillance cameras, ubiquitous neighborhood police stations, residents made to report on another other. Now that process also works the other way around. Xinjiang’s coercive labor …

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Opinion | Trump Is Wrong About TikTok. China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister.

December 18, 2020 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China, Military Affairs and Espionage

The Trump administration says it wants to ban the popular short-video app TikTok in the United States, because TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is Chinese. Washington is worried that the personal data of the many millions of Americans using the app could be siphoned off to China and misused. To some, that concern may seem excessive or its …

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My Family’s Shrouded History Is Also a National One for Korea – By Alexander Chee – The New York Times

December 18, 2020 / Japan, Korea - North and South Korea

By Alexander Chee Aug. 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET 81 In the latest article from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series by The Times that documents lesser-known stories from World War II, the author Alexander Chee looks back at the dark legacy of the Japanese occupation of Korea — and a once-unknown personal connection …

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Opinion | The Two China Fires – by Bret Stephens – The New York Times

July 27, 2020 / China, Foreign Affairs and U.S.ForeignPolicy

“. . .  What stands out now is just how brazen Beijing has become. Take one detail from Wray’s speech: “We have now reached the point where the F.B.I. is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours,” he said. In one case, a single scientist, Hongjin Tan, pleaded guilty to stealing an estimated …

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