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ↂUS Sen. Jeff Flake announces his decision not to seek reelection in a sharp attack on Trump’s “betrayal” of America: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/politics/jeff-flake-transcript-senate-speech.html.

ↂChina’s foremost historian of China-Korea relations offers a sharp criticism of North Korea, a “latent enemy”:</div
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/north-korea-south-china-shen-zhihua.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fasia

ↂ”The word is ‘un-American,'” says Jake Tapper of CNN in response to the banning of four news outlets, including CNN, from a news “gaggle”: http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02/24/white-house-press-block-jake-tapper-lead.cnn.  (It’s a strong indictment of an administration that fears critical reporting and has little interest in democracy.)

ↂA former Homeland Security top official talks about the Mexico border: Sebastian Rotella, www.propublica.org/article/former-border-czar-gives-real-facts-about-immigration

 

ↂTrump and Russia: Steven Harper, “The Trump Resistance Plan—A Timeline,” http://billmoyers.com/story/the-trump-resistance-plan-a-timeline-russia-and-president-trump/

ↂAcademic specialists’ protest letter on Chinese repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province, September 2018, https://xinjianginitiative.wixsite.com/xjinitiative

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Published by Mel Gurtov

I am Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University (Oregon) and Senior Editor of Asian Perspective, an international affairs quarterly, after many years (1994-2017) as Editor-in-Chief. I have published 30 books on the international politics of East Asia, US foreign policy, and human-security issues. My latest books are America in Retreat: Foreign Policy Under Donald Trump (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020); Engaging Adversaries: Peacemaking and Diplomacy in the Human Interest (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and Will This Be China's Century? A Skeptic's View (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013) This blog is dedicated to promoting ideas, policies, and organizations that seek to advance international understanding and the quality of life, especially for the largely impoverished global majority. I do not purport to represent the human interest; but my analysis of world affairs does seek to promote the human interest, guided above all by humane values and ideals rather than by the interests of governments or corporations. As a global citizen, my priorities are social justice, environmental protection, human rights, and peace. Greed, injustice, and violence are my targets; and diplomacy focused on engagement is my preferred strategy for transcending differences. Einstein once said that “those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act." I write with that sense of responsibility. I live in Deadwood, a very small community in western Oregon, where I help my wife in the beautiful Heirloom apple orchard she has created.

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