Posts Tagged ‘diplomacy’
Self-conscious interlude.
One of the New York Times’ new local blogs linked to my last post and I feel excited and totally strange about this. Perhaps it will make me post more often and remember that what I say is in the public sphere. And I’ve been wanting to get in contact with the editor of that [...]
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Tags: clinton hill, diplomacy, fort greene, media
No shortage of news.
I swear, the NYTimes can’t get enough of all the things going on in China these days; China is popping up in headlines across sections. And I feel like the tone of the coverage is not without a hint of incredulity and a smirk. I can’t keep up with it all myself. Imagine if I [...]
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Tags: art, china, chinese, controversy, diplomacy, taiwan, tibet, travel
More collaboration.
Chou Kung-shin, the director of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, will be visiting the Palace Museum in Beijing in the hopes of trading art. She is asking to borrow particular Qing dynasty artworks to display in Taiwan for several months.
China’s imperial art collection was divided in 1949:
When the Nationalists boarded ships to Taiwan six [...]
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Tags: art, beijing, china, diplomacy, taiwan
This is so belated because I was sorta sick last week, and also I was having a dumpling jones that was eclipsing all other urges (i.e. my urge to blog, my desire to complete a task at work before allowing myself to go in search of dumplings). It’s my sister’s year. Oxy.
Now I am craving [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, chinese, diplomacy, food, pandas, taiwan
Guantánamo to be no mo’.
I don’t plan for my blog to become an extension of Obamamania, so I will be sure to post about other topics soon. But I am so excited about his signing executive orders today to shut down Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons and detention camps. I’m so excited that he is taking bold steps [...]
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Tags: diplomacy, obama, politics
You are being removed from America’s terror list. Nice work. Though I feel like being on America’s terror list might carry a degree of badassitude, or at least impress a stranger at a dinner party to go home with you. So, sorry Kim Jong Il and ilk, you no longer terrify us. Now to bully [...]
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Tags: diplomacy, korea, politics
Shut up, Sharon Stone.
At the top of my gmail inbox, a headline from Yahoo! Entertainment keeps popping up like chronic ezcema.
Apparently Sharon Stone ran her mouth off at Cannes suggesting that the horrible Chinese earthquake is some sort of divine retribution.
She said in an interview with a CHINESE news source:
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, irksome, media
VD = no China for you.
I have to apply for a visa to go to Shanghai in a month. They’ve really cracked down pre-Olympics. Not only has the cost of a visa skyrocketed (but only for Americans), they’re asking for a lot more documentation than usual. My single entry visa is going to be $130! My cousin’s lucky she hasn’t [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, shanghai
The dark future.
My mom thinks that our Iranian friends have probably experienced discrimination recently due to the growing antagonism between their home country and ours. She says that one day we’re going to face the same thing, if China becomes a full-on enemy of the US.
She can be a bit of a downer.
I guess it’s worth thinking [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, media
