Chinese Delegates Go Ballistic at Model UN Event

A delegation of Chinese students at the Harvard Model United Nations held Jan. 29 to Feb. 1 made a dreadful discovery when they cracked open this year’s conference handbook. What they saw was so offensive that they made a scene, and several members of the group (the adult supervisors, as it turns out) ended up …

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‘Blood and Genes’: China’s Alarming New Military Recruitment Campaign

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) last week released a new recruitment video that is unlikely to assuage growing fears in the region over an increasingly nationalistic and expansionist China. The slick 4 minute 16 second video opens with the header “Our Dream.” Accompanied by a surprisingly restrained soundtrack, this section appeals to China’s youth. …

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Contesting Nationalisms in the Taiwan Strait

“The degree of shared or conflicting understandings of what the nation is,” writes Stephen M. Saideman, “has significant implications not just for whether a country will go to war but with whom” (Nationalism and War, John A. Hall & Sinisa Malesevic, eds., Cambridge UP, p. 342). Though Saideman does not once mention China in his …

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