Leading “defense expert” Bharat Verma recently stated that “China will launch an attack on India before 2012,” citing China’s hunger for dominance in Asia and the need to divert attention from its own internal social unrest as main points leading to his rather incendiary conclusion. A few months ago, Wang Xiaodong, one of the authors [...]

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I remember walking into a cramped recording studio in Shandong Province with a fellow colleague of mine, an ABC (American-born Chinese). We’d been contracted as voiceover actors for a series of English-language textbooks geared toward Chinese middle-school students. Following a rather awkward chat about payment terms, the producer turned to me and said something to [...]

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