Crammed in the middle by two CCG boats is an AFP Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) which was forcibly surrounded, dragged and eventually towed away from BRP Sierra Madre (LS57) with the intention to isolate it from the rest of the Filipino troops.

Excited to share my article, "Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations." Thanks to JAEAR for publishing my piece as part of this special issue on "Legacies of WWII and the Cold War in US-East Asia Relations"! brill.com/view/journals/…

⁦Controlling the past to control the present: Amy Hawkins⁩ on why the Communist Party is trying to grab documents housed ⁦Stanford University⁩ ⁦Hoover Institution⁩, with quotes by ⁦Joseph Torigian Frank Dikötter and⁩ yours truly. theguardian.com/world/article/…

One of my first The China Project columns was on the disappearance of archives, or at least access to them (inspired, obvi, by an 18C murder over an outhouse)--thechinaproject.com/2020/11/18/chi…. Really disturbing to see that threat spreading beyond PRC borders

My colleague & friend Amanda M. Rosen has a great new book out. She has dedicated so much of her career to SOTL—the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning—and published so many great articles and chapters. But now her book is out. Read It. You won’t regret it! U.S. Naval War College

Tim Walz: There will be time to sleep when you’re dead. NY Times Fact Checker: False. Dead people can’t sleep.And they have no sense of time.

1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution when Mao’s Little Red Book was all the rage, Random House published this curious book, Quotations from Chairman LBJ! 一六八年当毛语录最盛行的时候，兰登书屋竟然推出这本奇书《约翰逊主席语录》！分享一下这本被时间遗忘的奇书。

China’s covert foreign interference activities in the Pacific are a very important, and yet under-researched, topic. My new report ASPI uses New Caledonia as the case study to examine China’s hidden front, 隐蔽战线, throughout the wider Pacific. aspi.org.au/report/when-ch…

a man asked me if I even come close to working 40 hours a week as a stay at home mom and all I could think was “I can’t wait to tweet this”

“#China saw the world's biggest outflow of high-net-worth individuals last year & is expected to see a record exodus of 15,200 in 2024, dealing a further blow to its economy, a new report says.” asia.nikkei.com/Business/Marke… “Uncertainty over China's economic trajectory &

Come work with us! There is still time to apply for this leadership position as Deputy Chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. The deadline for applications is Thursday, September 19, 2024. Click for more details: usajobs.gov/job/805916900

Rest in Peace Lord Vader

Ad to be be posted soon in usual places, but pls know: Georgetown is searching this year for asst historian of China before-1800, those w/ adjacent expertise in Central, SE, NE, maritime Asia encouraged to apply. Tenure-track, 2-2 load. Letter, CV, writing sample, by EARLY OCT

Congratulations to Julianne Stone and all the Tindall Girls. What a great four years—we’re so proud of you all!! #2025AUGrad

All credit to Derek Reveron for working with USNI to make sure this came out at the start of the new academic year in JPME U.S. Naval War College We enjoyed working on this together, along with David Stone. usni.org/magazines/proc…