23
Sep
Friday Art: Lai Guoqiang
Lai Guoqiang mixes Western painting techniques with content from traditional Chinese landscapes. His work uses color to allow the viewer to glance into the spirit realm. Image source
16
Sep
Friday Art: Liu Yan
Liu Yan combines traditional forms of Chinese painting with Western content and themes. Changing sexual desires and gender roles are prominent in her work. She uses art to emphasize cultural juxtapositions between East and West. Image source.
14
Sep
Should the United States Cease Arms Sales to Taiwan?
Since the Shanghai Communiqué, arms sales to Taiwan have burdened Sino-American relations. “The Taiwan Relations Act,” a US law made in 1979, requires the US “to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character,” and “to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that [...]
09
Sep
Friday Art: Zhang Lin Hai
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07
Sep
China’s Foreign Investment
Recently, The Heritage Foundation released an interactive map that illustrates the PRC’s global investments in almost every industry. The $30.5 billion in the United States is dwarfed by the $376.7 billion invested internationally. Please note while looking at this data that this does not represent foreign debt.
02
Sep
Friday Art: Zhang Peng
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29
Aug
The Pentagon and Chinese Military Power
Background This past week, the Pentagon issued an 83-page public report on China’s military expansion. In the report, the Pentagon acknowledged that China had closed key technological gaps that were previously hindering its military’s expansion. While speaking at the Pentagon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Michael Schiffer articulated the core of the [...]
26
Aug
Friday Art: Li Wei
See the work here.
21
Aug
Why is China so Strange to Americans?
Selling children to play online games. Apple store knockoffs. Form-fitting black rubber wetsuits. These are the articles that continuously haunt my newsfeed on China, and I’m sick of them. It seems as though America has a tabloid interest in Chinese culture. We consistently crave to hear about strange behavior from Chinese citizens or government officials, [...]
19
Aug
Friday Art: Guo Jian from Shanghai
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