Can anyone recommend me good books on China-Russia/USSR and China-Pakistan relations incl CPEC?
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We're on the same mission lol... There are books but are written by American analysts which aren't very good.
@Crang I don't know if you're familiar with or have watched this seminar but it'll help or assist in further understanding of the contemporary Sino-Russia partnership.
As for a book, I can recommend this fiction book which according to Lyle Goldstein is apparently insightful.
Quite a lot of interesting stuff there, but I think he is overoptimistic on India.
So I think the biggest essay missing is "India as a plutocracy"
Anyone here read this horrendous racist book titled "Ways that Are Dark: The Truth About China" by the piece of shit racist, Ralph Townsend written back in 1933 detailing his experience and understanding of contemporary China during her most trying and troubled times.
I think this book and the impression it left to it's readers is still what animates a lot of the idiots in America and in the west. Reading this passage alone makes my blood boil.
"Finally, in chapter ten Townsend affirms that the "backward Chinese" are America’s "only legitimate problem in Asia" and asks what can be done to deal with a nation that spends aid money corruptly, does not respect its loans, mistreats and attacks foreigners, ignores international drug laws, will not protect foreign investment, and does not engage in productive diplomacy with other nations. He warns Americans that the Chinese see kindness only as weakness and thus can never respond to any type of . "For every Chinese, from highest to lowest," he argues, "all the acts of life are concentrated upon extracting, from those who mean nothing to him, what he can for the benefit of himself and his clan." By contrast, he believes that the Chinese do understand force and respect strength. Therefore, he advocates that the United States forgo naive "sentimentalist" thinking and adopt a policy of "stern insistence upon our rights without cruel abuse of our strength", including withholding further loans without strict conditions and holding on to and .
I think this book and the impression it left to it's readers is still what animates a lot of the idiots in America and in the west. Reading this passage alone makes my blood boil.
"Finally, in chapter ten Townsend affirms that the "backward Chinese" are America’s "only legitimate problem in Asia" and asks what can be done to deal with a nation that spends aid money corruptly, does not respect its loans, mistreats and attacks foreigners, ignores international drug laws, will not protect foreign investment, and does not engage in productive diplomacy with other nations. He warns Americans that the Chinese see kindness only as weakness and thus can never respond to any type of . "For every Chinese, from highest to lowest," he argues, "all the acts of life are concentrated upon extracting, from those who mean nothing to him, what he can for the benefit of himself and his clan." By contrast, he believes that the Chinese do understand force and respect strength. Therefore, he advocates that the United States forgo naive "sentimentalist" thinking and adopt a policy of "stern insistence upon our rights without cruel abuse of our strength", including withholding further loans without strict conditions and holding on to and .
Ironically, this passage can be reversed and applied to the entirety of the West today; members in this forum (and no doubt key decision makers in China's gov) have / would also endorse China to forgo naive "sentimentalist" thinking and adopt a policy of "stern insistence upon our rights without cruel abuse of our strength".
The Ukraine conflict has been a good wake up call that not doing so would mean inviting unnecessary trouble from certain players.
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While browsing a local used bookshop today, I discovered "China: The Long March" by Anthony Lawrence, an oversized photography (or "coffee table") book published in 1986 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Long March. My initial impressions are that it is an excellent example of the form, pairing many large, high-quality photographs, maps, artworks, etc. with text that is informative yet very readable, i.e. not overly complex.
I suspect that this book is very much a product of its time: English text, BBC writer, western audience, neutral to positive depiction of CCP and Mao, well-resourced publication with evident support from Beijing and local authorities. I suspect that such a book could not have to come to pass even a decade earlier, nor a decade later.
Am very pleased with today's find! Here is the .
I suspect that this book is very much a product of its time: English text, BBC writer, western audience, neutral to positive depiction of CCP and Mao, well-resourced publication with evident support from Beijing and local authorities. I suspect that such a book could not have to come to pass even a decade earlier, nor a decade later.
Am very pleased with today's find! Here is the .
《NAAS》 magazine published a column describing the wishful thinking of this Hollywood script.Unfortunately, it's in Chinese, and I don't have a scanning device.
The weather is very hot. My father doesn't like to turn on too many air conditioners to waste electricity, so I can't translate the content word for word in the heat wave.
If you can read Chinese and don't care about mobile phone shooting, I can shoot the comment content of this novel.
Since the death of Tom Clancy, it's hard to meet imaginative military fantasy writers.
This little known Japanese writer can rival Tom Clancy in his high yield.
But we can also see that this writer only wrote stories about Japanese defeating Chinese, Korean and Russian for nearly 30 years.
By the way, I haven't read any of his books.
But the preview of the content mentioned 075 and kj-600. He is a writer who always pays attention to China's military progress.
This series of novels can be regarded as part of the author's "World War III" series.
Whenever I see Japanese writers writing such works, I always feel resentful：Why does our government strictly prohibit our writers from creating the same thing?Will entertainment novels also cause serious diplomatic problems?Military novels are strictly restricted, and real names of countries and organizations are not allowed.
Sadly, the only military novels available to The Chinese are those that exaggerate the role of special forces and emphasise the "fearlessness of death".