2005-10-07

Light reading: "North Korea is a lot larger South"

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I have a few topics in mind but I haven't got time to write them. So in between, I would share with you this video (or from the source...
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2005-10-02

Understanding China's ethnic groups, and I love Curzon's map blogs

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Martyn in The Pekingduck has a good crash course for Xinjiang's history . See this site for maps of each Chinese dynasties super-imposed...
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2005-09-30

Taiwan's Defense Option (iii): A-bien's paradox or brilliant coup?

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In the previous post a few paradoxes have emerged If Chen Shui Bien already knows that the best defense strategy is to maintain status quo ...
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2005-09-29

Taiwan's Defense Option (ii): Arms Procurement "Accounting"

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As the debate continues, and the disguise in "accounting" of the Revised Special Budget was able to mislead the mass (even some pr...
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2005-09-24

RMB update Sep-23-2005: non-USD gap(band) doubled

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Consider 10 horses pulling a cart on a straight road, where 9 small horses pull with elastic bands of different length and the 10th horse (w...
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2005-09-23

Zoellick on China: there are more than what he preached

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Everybody focuses on what Zoellick preached to China . There are good discussions by Daniel Drezner , Sam Crane , and many others. I don...
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2005-09-22

Taoist Lao Zi as a strategist, and the Taiwan issue

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Sam Crane has a great paragraph regarding the North Korean situation. What has intrigued me most was his quoting of Lao Zi in Dao De Jing ....
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2005-09-21

Misnomer of the legalist Shang Yang, and how to fix the mess in China's legal system

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Shang Yang (商鞅) was widely regarded at the representative figure in the school of " legalism " (法家)in 300BC. Chinese historian at...
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2005-09-19

Light reading: Tian-xian MM

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Some complained that this blog is too dull and too serious. So I try to balance the "seriousness" by interlacing with some light ...
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How to reform China's oil industry (iii) - oligarchs and deregulation

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As discussed before, China has serious structural problem in its oil price , and SDRC is responsible for this mess. The problem lies not onl...