America First, Netherlands Second
Critique of Trump policy on China from Foreign Policy “This is how you stumble into a crisis.” Continue reading “Notes 30 Jan 2017”
America First, Netherlands Second
Critique of Trump policy on China from Foreign Policy “This is how you stumble into a crisis.” Continue reading “Notes 30 Jan 2017”
For next week, we plan to turn our attention to Europe to consider the questions raised in the following New York Times article: The Questions That Could Reshape a Worried Europe in 2017.
Although there are lots of questions, we felt that it might be best to come prepared to discuss all of them–based on the premise that some might not be fruitful enough for two hours’ discussion and we might thereby suffer from more “topic drift.”
See you next week!
“Should we worry about China?” “Will this be the century of China?”
Recommended by Courtney and Bob: “The China Mirage: the hidden history of American Disaster in Asia” by James Bradley. (Amazon, NPR Podcast (7min) and transcript.)
I have not read the book but I rate the below-linked YouTube video of a talk by Bradley as terrific!
Bradley is also the author of “Flags of Our Fathers” about (among other things) the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima.
(His talk is an hour long; if you want to save some time, you can watch it at up to 2x speed by pressing the “gear” icon. )
TED Talk, recommended by Bradley “Are China and the US doomed to conflict” by Kevin Rudd former PM of Australia.
Wikipedia article on “The Chinese Century” has lots of interesting links for the homework oriented: