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1.In the 1950s, the late John King Fairbank, the dean of modern China studies at Harvard, used to tell us graduate students a joke about the allegation that a group of red-leaning foreign service officers and academics—the four Johns—had “lost” China: John Paton Davies, John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, and John King Fairbank himself. What the McCarthyites had

Examining the new relations between the U.S. and China's military.

The CIA in Indonesia...   Background from the CIA World Fact Book:  

I was a target, writer Han Xiu says, describing her early years in China.

Jane Perlez has been a reporter at The New York Times since 1981. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has reported on wars, diplomacy, and foreign policy from Somalia to Poland to Indonesia. Since moving to Beijing in 2012, she’s written about everything from China’s space program to the

Soon, such a scene would become unthinkable. It was a cold morning in early March 1946, a rocky airstrip laid along a broad, barren valley in China’s northwest, lined by mountains of tawny dust blown from the Gobi Desert. Six months earlier, one war, a world war, had ended. Six months later, a new war, a cold war, would be under way. Yet here stood General George C. Marshall

Pompeo Sees Through ‘CCP Logic’ From Biden’s Climate Summit U.S. President Joe Biden invited 40 world leaders to attend a two-day virtual climate summit last month. On April 22, the first day the climate summit kicked-off, Bill Hemmer, the co-anchor of the Fox News Channel’s “American’s Newsroom,” interviewed former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He asked Pompeo about the meaning behind Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s speech at the summit, quoting Xi’s words: “To protect t...