From Campus Reform: Not everyone at UCSD welcomed the news, however, according to the Atlantic Mediapublication Quartz, which reports that the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) issued a lengthy statement via social media claiming that it had…
Topic: communist China

What’s Next for Trump and Taiwan?
Before President-elect Trump’s recent exchange of greetings with Taiwanese leaders, Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, spoke at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation , giving his take the incoming administration and…

North Korean Defector Outlines Struggles of Leaving Children Behind
Don’t expect the word “communist” to join the host of adjectives that precede the word “studies” in academe. Genuine studies of communist oppression don’t fit the academic narrative. At a Heritage Foundation panel discussion recently,…
China’s Communist Government Now Demands Christian Churches’ Tithing
Tithing is now going to a Chinese provincial government from Chinese Christian churches. That’s not good news for religious liberty.
University of Chicago Students Ask for Divestment from China
Why not divest from China, if some academics are pushing to divest from Israel?
Mao’s Cultural Revolution Bred Capitalism
Editor’s Note: Maybe the ‘May Day’ activists need a refresher course in socialism. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s was a disastrous failure and it created a capitalist society in rural China, noted one professor…

The Donald’s Diversity Deconstructed
If Trump were to actually win the Republican nomination and become president, it’s questionable whether his policies would be in any sense Republican. Indeed, his foreign policy would be even more pro-Russian than that of…

U.S.-Japan Alliance Has Big Questions
As China-Japan frictions are bubbling to the surface, there are legitimate concerns whether there will be an armed conflict in the near future, and whether the U.S. would back Japan in defending Japan in places…
Update on China’s Detention of Labor Activists
Via the AAUP’s Academe Blog, here’s the background: On December 3, authorities detained 20 labor activists in Guangdong Province. Four have been placed under criminal charge, several are unaccounted for, and the rest have been…
Bad Business with China 101
Those who warn of the dangers of professors making pronouncements outside their area of expertise may have been a bit too hasty. A case might be made for encouraging business professors to look at foreign…