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Jimmy Carter: human rights institutionalist

20 movies remade for Trump 2.0

Trump’s claims on Panama, Greenland and Canada are a gift to the CCP

And so it begins: GOP pulls punch on China in response to Musk

A tribute to Jim Leach

Trump makes racism his closing argument. That’s bad news for Uyghurs and Tibetans if he wins.

The sad moral relativism of Dodger-cheering Yankee-hating Red Sox fans

Election guide: the candidates on human rights in China

When politicians endorse Trump and his authoritarianism, how can we trust them to make policy against China’s authoritarianism?

The un-Christian attack on universal human rights

Whatever happened to virtue?

Tiananmen, Trump and tanks to crush “the Enemy Within”

SIX reasons why a second Trump term would be terrible for human rights in China

What U.S. president would call a foreign leader a “son of a bitch,” “bad guy” and “fucking liar” but then do everything he asks

Washington’s empty talk on justice for Uyghurs

Double standards undercut efforts to counter foreign influence and leave Americans unprotected

The case for U.S.-led regime change in China is based on a fallacy

Taiwan’s MAGA problem

Are “anti-CCP” politics a new form of Orientalism?

The coming MAGA-CCP alignment

Retcons and revisionist history: the silly way China is politically weaponized

Identity wars: from presidential politics to foreign policymaking

I hate summer now.

Tim Walz puts the “human” in China human rights criticism

Team Trump’s gift to the Chinese Communist Party on human rights

The anti-Chinese racism of Project 2025

Project 2025: a blueprint for CCP-style governance of America

Campuses, Complicity and the Telling of History

American hypocrisy undermines our advocacy for ethnic minorities in China

The Intellectual Property of “Never Again”

Cold Wars and civil rights: an American reversal

Viktor Orbán, Authoritarian Matchmaker

Juneteenth and the question of self-determination

Should the U.S. promote regime change in China?

Tiananmen remembrance reveals the fallacy of the US-China ideological competition narrative

International Relations Heuristic Bias – aka the West-fail-ian trap

The Trump verdict and America’s narrative on China

Is Gaza a US proxy war?

The CCP is a conservative party

What does it mean to be an “ally?”

Thought experiment: What if the KMT had won and ruled China?

Exemptionalism in action: the U.S. and Israel/Gaza

Despair of a Gen-Xer

Kissinger, Roth and the monetization of foreign policy