I reviewed Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell's China's Search for Security for H-Net: Nevertheless, Nathan and Scobell argue that, despite its growing power, China’s international position remains almost uniquely precarious. China borders more countries that any nation on earth, and continues to have border disputes...
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It's a good thing the Chinese don't eat fish because this would be a problem: However, over the past few years, fishery resources in the river have witnessed a severe.
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at China's approach to naval aviation: Ranging from the Colossus class carriers distributed across the world at the end of World War II,.
I wanna see how this turns out: Struggling to stand upright against a howling wind, Bragi Benediktsson looked out over his family’s land — a barren expanse of snow and ice that a Chinese billionaire wants to turn into a golf course — and laughed....
This piece on Hong Kong's out of control light pollution is a good reminder of one of the least controlled means of pollution. While maybe it isn't as damaging as.
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking.
We all know that the Chinese environment is just a bit degraded. And then there's this of course: But luckily the Chinese government has a hot new plan to solve at least the air problem: Ah, yes—the Chinese government will stop at nothing to reduce...
I have some thoughts on the diffusion of anti-access military technology over at The Diplomat During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a strong political incentive to maximize diffusion.
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Justin Logan and I talked retrenchment:
This week's Diplomat column takes a look at COIN in the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the Murray-Mansoor edited volume Hybrid Warfare: Yamaguchi suggests that elements of the Japanese Army and a variety of hybrid civil-military organizations took the problem of COIN quite seriously from...
Let me be the first to point out that there is no way in which this could end up badly: After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan,.
This is an interesting, if somewhat older, discussion of the Chinese architect Ma Yansong and his so-called "organic architecture." The piece focuses on his so-called "Marilyn Monroe" building in Mississagua,.