Short Take: Why are Chinese migrants crossing the Mexican border?
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
1M ago
Short Take is a periodic series where China Law & Policy briefly analyzes a current China-related issue and give our take. We aim for 500 words or less (around a 4-minute read). Last week, New York Times’ reporter, Li Yuan, appeared on The Daily in a fascinating podcast that retold the story Gao Zhibian, a Chinese migrant who entered the United States by taking the perilous trek across Central America’s Darien Gap and up through Mexico, eventually crossing the Texas border. What caught my attention was the numbers Yuan reported. In 2023, 24,000 Chinese citizens took this path. That number ..read more
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恭喜发财! Happy Year of the Wood Dragon!
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
1M ago
On February 10, we say goodbye to the introspective, more pensive rabbit and greet the most prized of all the Chinese zodiac signs, the dragon. But not just any ordinary dragon; 2024 ushers in the year of the wood dragon. Buckle up because it is going to be a wild ride! In addition to being associated with a zodiac animal, each year is also associated with one of the five elements (earth, wood, water, fire, metal). This year’s element is wood. While the dragon is an auspicious sign, it is also a volatile one, offering fast-paced opportunities that could yield tremendous successes or abysmal f ..read more
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China’s Living Dead: The assault on the Uyghurs continues
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
1M ago
Originally published in Commonweal Gulbahar Haitiwaji hoped it would be the last time she would have to betray a family member. She had already denounced her own daughter, her husband, and Uyghur activist leader Rebiya Kadeer the month before. That video-recorded “confession” had secured her release from the Chinese prison camps, where she had been detained for more than two years. But Gulbahar was not actually free. Instead she was sitting in a plush room in a house adjacent to the prison camp, ordered by the Chinese police who lived with her to call her family in France. She had not spoken ..read more
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The Human Toll of a Cold War: “Agents of Subversion” and “Lost in the Cold War”
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
2M ago
Few Americans know the story of John “Jack” Downey, the United States’ longest-held prisoner of war who served over 20 years in a Chinese prison. But given the current broken relationship between the U.S. and China, it’s important to understand Downey’s ordeal and the human toll of the last Cold War. Fortunately, two new, thought-provoking books, Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW, written by John T. Downey with explanations by China political scientist Thomas Christensen and a moving epilogue by Downey’s son, John Lee Downey, and Agents of Subversion ..read more
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Was it really Kissinger who changed US-China policy?
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
3M ago
With Henry Kissinger’s death last month at the age of 100, obituaries around the globe have wrestled with his controversial legacy. Some label him a diplomatic genius, others a war criminal. But regardless, each one credits Kissinger with re-setting U.S.-China relations with his secret trip to China in July 1971 while serving as President Richard Nixon’s National Security Adviser.  Six months later, Nixon would make his historic visit to Beijing, meet Chairman Mao and essentially end the Cold War between China and the U.S. “Engineered the United States’ opening to China,” The New York Ti ..read more
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Want to Reset China-US Relations? Bring Back Fulbright China
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
4M ago
Restoring the Fulbright Program could be a gateway to alleviating tensions and closing the China expertise gap. by Colleen O’Connor & Elizabeth M. Lynch Originally published in The Diplomat The recent meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in California was heralded as an initial attempt to thaw relations. As part of that broader effort, both sides expressed interest in expanding educational exchanges. China’s announced goal of hosting 50,000 U.S. students in the next five years looks wildl ..read more
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Book Review: Josh Chin and Liza Lin’s Surveillance State
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
8M ago
Originally published in Commonweal Every so often, I witness a scene in my neighborhood that’s all too common in New York City. A single car is double-parked on a narrow side street in front of a large apartment building. A blocked, frustrated driver—say, of a school bus full of frenetic children, or a delivery van on a tight schedule—angrily lays on the horn, sometimes for a full minute or more. Sometimes the guilty party sheepishly emerges to move their vehicle. But just as often they don’t. If this were not Queens but Hangzhou, a city near China’s eastern coast, there would be no need for ..read more
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The Jewish Museum profiled the 19th-century version of the Sacklers — and glossed over the devastation they caused
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
9M ago
Originally published in The Forward. Lin Zexu in NYC’s Chinatown. Photo courtesy of LuHungnguong/Wikimedia About six miles south of The Jewish Museum in New York, where an exhibit on the Jewish British merchant family, the Sassoons, is on view until Aug. 13, lies Chinatown’s Chatham Square. In the center of the square is a bronze statue of Qing Dynasty official Lin Zexu. The words “Pioneer in the War Against Drugs” are carved into the red granite pedestal upon which he proudly stands, in recognition of his efforts to rid China of opium in the mid-1800s. By the time Lin became a government ..read more
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Remembering ‘228’ in Taiwan
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
1y ago
Taipei’s 228 Parade, Feb. 28, 2023 Originally published in Commonweal The Taipei sun was already scorching at ten in the morning, and the tall palm trees lining the street teased us with their shade. We were waiting for the start of the “228” parade, an annual event that commemorates the February 28, 1947 massacre in Taiwan. The crowd was mostly composed of young Taiwanese NGO workers in their twenties and thirties, all dressed in black. We lined up in two columns divided by a long white banner. Then our leader, a petite young woman wearing an oversized black t-shirt and baggy cargo pants, sol ..read more
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恭喜发财!Happy Year of the Rabbit!
China Law & Policy
by Elizabeth M. Lynch
1y ago
Hippity hop!  Sunday welcomes year of the rabbit, putting to rest the ferociousness of last year’s tiger.  The invasion of Ukraine, various mass shootings in the United States, and the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, the world is ready to silence the tiger’s roar. With the rabbit’s gentle nature, this year should prove to be much less dramatic. But 2023 is more than just year of the rabbit, it is year of the water rabbit!  Every year has it’s own element and 2023’s element is water.  At the same time each of the 12 zodiac animals has its own inn ..read more
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