Made-In-China Aircraft Carrier Is Readied for Launch
China was making final preparations to launch its first domestically built aircraft carrier as it marked the 68th anniversary of the founding of the PLA Navy on Sunday.
Searching for Identity in China’s Outer Lands
“ ‘China’s Outer Lands’ is about people instinctively looking for their own identity, between conformity or originality or autonomy or dependence,” Mr. Sakamaki said. “It’s natural, it’s happening in not only China, it’s everywhere.”
China’s Aircraft Carrier Trouble—Spewing Steam and Losing Power
There’s no more of a conspicuous and potent symbol of China’s growing naval power than the aircraft carrier Liaoning.
The NYRB China Archive
05.08.14
The China Challenge
from New York Review of BooksIn 1890, an undistinguished U.S. Navy captain published a book that would influence generations of strategists. Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 posited that great nations need potent, blue-water...
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08.31.12
“Naked Official” Streaks to U.S.
On Monday, the People’s Daily confirmed rumors that Wang Guoqiang, a senior official of Fengcheng city, Liaoning province, fled China in April to the United...