Senate Democrats Ask Trump for Answers on China Trademarks

A group of Senate Democrats has sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump requesting information about a raft of trademark approvals from China this year that they say may violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on gifts from foreign governments...

The NYRB China Archive
03.25.04

Chiang’s Monster

Jonathan D. Spence
from New York Review of Books

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During the late 1930s and World War II, it was common to call Dai Li “China’s Himmler,” as if Chiang Kai-shek’s secret police and intelligence chief during that period performed functions similar to the head of the Gestapo and the SS...