@vshih2@SusanShirk1@21CenturyChina Congratulations to Victor (@vshih2) and to the Center UCSD has been extraordinarily well-served by @SusanShirk1 and you have been a key part of that effort. The center has done great things and its future is very bright indeed!
Barbara Walters, 1929-2022, accomplished much during her long career, including being among the few women who were part of the press pool accompanying Pres. Nixon to China. She's among those featured in Assignment:China. Pressed for time? Skip to 14:20 https://t.co/i4elo10jHx
125,000+ names. The first comprehensive list of those Japanese Americans and Japanese incarcerated without charge or due process has been compiled by USC's Duncan Williams and others. https://t.co/cW8lIuRhi5
@sleavenworth Congratulations to you Stuart and to the @washingtonpost. We're counting on you to better help all understand the role the US, China, separately and together, play in these vital issues. @usc_uschina@USChinaToday
The UN condemned China's system of arbitrary detention in Xinjiang. China's government rejected the UN report and blamed the criticism on anti-China forces. Read the report and the response at: https://t.co/7pPArS9nBO What's at Stake in Xinjiang? https://t.co/FO5f8h6fl1
Problems on the Belt and Road, including in SE Asia. China sections of the report: https://t.co/4dYWMIzTts Credits China with anti-trafficking laws, but uneven enforcement, especially on firms abroad. A lot on forced labor at Xinjiang detention centers.
#Vietnam, #Cambodia#Brunei join ##Malaysia on US #trafficking blacklist. Cited for weak efforts to stop forced sex work or assist migrant labourers, Those on list subject to US sanctions, tho friendly nations spared punishment w./ promise to improve https://t.co/RsVExjLD3l
The formula: control journalists to control the message. Authorities are blocking several major media outlets from the 25th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China's control, attended by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Some of the excluded:@CNN,@Reuters,@AFP & @SCMPNews
Delighted to talk with Amb. Rao about the Indian-Chinese relations past and present. Video available at the WAC-OC https://t.co/KQ7cB5tUS6 and USCI https://t.co/IUumH4y7pd websites soon.
Coming up soon. Pleasure to join @LisaCurtisDC and @claydube for this discussion. Fractured Himalaya: Understanding India-China Bilateral Relations with Nirupama Rao – World Affairs Council of Orange County https://t.co/6CLdu6evit
Actual good news on the climate change front. China's government reports that co2 emissions per GDP unit dropped 3.8% in 2021. Electricity from coal dropped to 56%, the share from renewables increased to 26%. https://t.co/DVMFbzEFe2
1/3Teaching history in Xi’s China:
1. Journalism instructor Song Gengyi 宋庚一 was dismissed from a Shanghai college for questioning the official death toll of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. https://t.co/LMrJ3eTgLb
Viya 薇娅 as her fans know live streaming star Huáng Wēi 黄薇 was fined $210 m for tax evasion. Several publications including Bloomberg profiled her. This @supchinanews look at her and the live stream commerce model is worth your time.
https://t.co/nKqnX62diR
"Examining whether our research may be aiding the PLA is neither political nor racist." I agree
But any such examination should be done with a keen eye to how it can fuel suspicion of people seen as connected to China because of their ethnicity, national origin, or other ties 1/2
A holiday reminder: Things Change. Foreign Policy editor Charles Maynes writing in Dec. 1991: “In the 1970s China evolved from a hostile into a friendly power. Now in the 1990s the Soviet Union is following a similar evolution.” From "America without the Cold War."