The China Chronicle
Andrew Singer is a traveler and a writer and speaker on China, Chinese-America, and America.
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Xi Jinping’s State Visit (opens the original)
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Propaganda: A Four-Letter Word (opens the original)
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The Island That Got Away (and Why It Needs to Come Home) (opens the original)
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The island that got away drives deep passions.Lying tantalizingly close, less than 100 miles from the mainland, this isolated landmass has long been perched within the mainland’s sphere of influence. And yet, it remains separate, a mocking presence over the decades. Governed by a regime anathema to the mainland government, the island is labeled an existential, foreign threat. Seeking control is visceral. The mainland government enforces broad economic sanctions. Its military conducts provocative
Interpreting Official China (opens the original)
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The Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee met last week. After reading several posts by respected China hands reporting on this high-level meeting, I was struck once again by a significant deficit America suffers from in dealing with China. Most of us do not understand the language official China uses to express itself and therefore too often miss the real story.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!feKv!,f_auto,q_auto:go
Pliable History; Shaping the Past (opens the original)
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“The past is what happened, history is what is written about it.”This favorite quote from James Carter, Professor of modern Chinese history, has weighty implications for society and governance broadly. It also arises in less flashy, if not less important, venues. The questions raised are the same no matter the context. What is the past? Who gets to document this past in our histories for today and tomorrow?<a class="button primary" href="https://andrewsing
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