Jonathan Cheng Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In “To Change China,” Jonathan Spence profiled foreigners who “kept insisting on having the right to alter China.” In “The Chan’s Great Continent,” he described how views of China in the West were often based on the West’s own projected fears. @shashamimi https://t.co/xm4EgDXdlC

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The U.S.'s new Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 365-65 to create a "Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party." "All 65 of the 'no' votes came from Democrats." https://t.co/QNcWLE0ioj

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China to Western world: When it comes to climate, we're going to need to see a little less talk and a lot more action. https://t.co/WQofsMCLfQ

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Jonathan Cheng

In “To Change China,” Jonathan Spence profiled foreigners who “kept insisting on having the right to alter China.” In “The Chan’s Great Continent,” he described how views of China in the West were often based on the West’s own projected fears. @shashamimi https://t.co/xm4EgDXdlC

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In 1922, Bertrand Russell believed China could become “the greatest Power in the world after the United States.” But, he added: “The danger…is that, as soon as it has proved strong enough for successful defence, it is apt to turn to foreign aggression.” https://t.co/Su5vaTKVl2

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Mao Ning: "Cybersecurity review by relevant Chinese authorities on Micron’s products sold in China is carried out in accordance with the law and the latest decision is based in facts. China’s cybersecurity review does not target any particular countries." https://t.co/3l35S5RIHD

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@AMSimmons1 @Chao_Deng @dannyrrussel “Russia has very few friends,” said Alexander Lukin of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. “So, to have such a strong friend as China, the second-largest economy in the world, on its side is important both politically and economically.” https://t.co/8bDz24c07d

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@drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ @aviswanatha @jacquiemcnish @bobmackin Mr. Kovrig read 20 to 30 books a month—on philosophy and geopolitics, classics from Tolstoy to Kafka and Mandela’s prison autobiography, “The Long Walk to Freedom.” He and Mr. Spavor read Viktor Frankl’s Auschwitz meditation, “Man’s Search for Meaning.” https://t.co/CAsSOar6wg

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"Ideological questions that Deng preferred to avoid are bubbling up again. In an article this year Hu Angang, a staunchly pro-party scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, wrote that China could progress to an 'intermediate stage' of socialism in 2035." https://t.co/vHpVRv4ncy

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@ByChunHan “This is likely to be a year of turbulence for Xi Jinping,” says Alfred Wu, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. “Xi claims all the credit but deserves all the blame, too.” @alfredmwu https://t.co/FvmbiNfpkA