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China's "Power Projection" Capabilities, Thomas M. Kane
China's "Power Projection" Capabilities, Thomas M. Kane
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
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China's Military Mercantilism, Christopher Bowen Johnston
China's Military Mercantilism, Christopher Bowen Johnston
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Elijah Lovejoy’S Oration On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of American Independence: An Essay Discovered, William G. Chrystal
Elijah Lovejoy’S Oration On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of American Independence: An Essay Discovered, William G. Chrystal
Maine History
On July 4, 1826, the American republic celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with great fanfare. In this research note, the author provides a transcript of an oration delivered in China, Maine on that day. The speaker was local schoolmaster Elijah P. Lovejoy, better known for his tragic death eleven years later. By then an abolitionist newspaper editor in Alton, Illinois, Lovejoy was killed in 1837 by a pro-slavery mob. Lovejoy’s 1826 oration, then, serves as both a compelling look at the celebration of America’s Jubilee in rural Maine and an early example of the ideological convictions which led Lovejoy to abolitionism. …
Rebalancing The Rebalance, Michael Spangler
Rebalancing The Rebalance, Michael Spangler
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
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The New Cold War, Michael G. Roskin
The New Cold War, Michael G. Roskin
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
China's North Korea Policy: Rethink Or Recharge?, Andrew Scobell, Mark Cozad
China's North Korea Policy: Rethink Or Recharge?, Andrew Scobell, Mark Cozad
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
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Epilogue: A Hypothesis On The East Asian Beginnings Of The Yersinia Pestis Polytomy, Robert Hymes
Epilogue: A Hypothesis On The East Asian Beginnings Of The Yersinia Pestis Polytomy, Robert Hymes
The Medieval Globe
The work of Cui et al. (2013)—in both dating the polytomy that produced most existing strains of Yersinia pestis and locating its original home to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau—offers a genetically derived specific historical proposition for historians of East and Central Asia to investigate from their own sources. The present article offers the hypothesis that the polytomy manifests itself in the Mongol invasion of the Xia state in the Gansu corridor in the early thirteenth century and continues in the Mongols’ expansion into China and other parts of Eurasia. The hypothesis relies to a considerable extent on work of Cao Shuji …
On The Fringe: China's Disability Laws Through The Lens Of The Traditional Culture, Brandon Christensen
On The Fringe: China's Disability Laws Through The Lens Of The Traditional Culture, Brandon Christensen
BYU Asian Studies Journal
Explosive economic growth over the last two decades has dramatically increased China’s standard of living and given rise to a rapidly growing middle class. Political reform, however, has been slow to follow with decades-old legal restrictions on civil liberties still firmly in place. Among China’s underdeveloped civil protections is the right for people with disabilities to enjoy freedom from popular and institutional prejudice in language or action, especially when seeking employment. Recent revisions of China’s disability laws provide increased employment protections, but latent prejudicial language and traditional stereotypes in the law suggest these revisions may not reach the core objective …
China's Use Of Economic Hard Power In The 21st Century, Taylor Shippen
China's Use Of Economic Hard Power In The 21st Century, Taylor Shippen
BYU Asian Studies Journal
China’s growing willingness to project military power may make the nightly news, but military power is not China’s greatest tool in achieving political ends. Since Deng Xiaoping began his reforms in 1978, economic influence has been the source of many of China’s diplomatic breakthroughs with the West. Although there is some dispute among scholars about what to call China’s growing influence (Klein 1994: 39; Huang 2013), for the purposes of this paper, China’s growing persuasiveness will be based on Joseph Nye’s definition of hard power, which he defines as “the ability to use the carrots and sticks of economic and …