July 2015

The Foreign Affairs Magazine published a special issue (May/June 2015), Titled, China Now. This issue contains its usual essays, reviews, responses, and a set of seven articles about China. The article, “What It Means to Be Chinese” by Perry Link made me read it twice with great interest. Later, Ken Wu, a friend in Taiwan, called my attention and asked my opinion about it. I wrote my opinion back to...

A couple of years ago, the Diaoyu Islands, a territorial dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea, had flared up as a hotspot in the news media. The provocation started by the Japanese government’s renege on an agreement to table the dispute.  In 1972, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai told the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka who was seeking formal diplomatic relations between...