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Here are all my opinion pieces on topics relating to China and her neighbors.
The earliest pieces — earlier than mid-1991 — were done under my pen-name, "Giles Mathews." This is a Sinological in-joke: Herbert Giles compiled the first major Chinese-English dictionary (1892), Robert Mathews the second (1931).
| Date | Place | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | |||
| January 16, 2015 | VDARE | "The Rectification of Names" | China Struggles With Its National Question. |
| 2014 | |||
| October 2, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | The Great Circle of Despots | Hong Kong, in long historical perspective. |
| June 5, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | Two Bad Answers … | … to politics in a postindustrial society. |
| May 4, 2014 | VDARE | China, America, and the Chinese in America | An address to the 2014 American Renaissance conference. |
| February 13, 2014 | VDARE | The
21st Century May Belong To Japan — Because It's Biting The Demographic Bullet Now |
Japan leads the way. |
| 2013 | |||
| December 19, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Caligula in Pyongyang | KJU offs his uncle. |
| December 5, 2013 | VDARE | China Really Feels It's A Victim Nation | Handle with care. |
| August 8, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Is Democracy's Sun Setting? | And can China get along fine without it? |
| March 14, 2013 | VDARE | Neo-Social Darwinism | Ron Unz joins the Great China Guessing Game. |
| February 28, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Women Spoiling Men's Fun | It's a world-wide phenomenon. |
| 2012 | |||
| May 3, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | The Chinese Advantage | Who will own the 21st century? |
| 2011 | |||
| August 4, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Give 'Em a Country | Terrorism and self-determination. |
| May 28, 2011 | Address to the Property and Freedom Society |
Understanding China and the Chinese |
It's not easy. |
| May 26, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | China's Never-Ending Party | Not so much a Wirtschaftswunder as a Staatskunstswunder. |
| March 17, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | No Sex Please, We're Japanese | Demography and good behavior. |
| January 19, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | China's Killer App | The new Internet? |
| 2010 | |||
| January 19, 2010 | NRO | The Authoritarian Temptation | Tom Friedman gushes over the Chinese dictatorship. |
| 2009 | |||
| July 20, 2009 | Taki's Magazine | Chinese Imperialism and Its Discontents | Atatürk got it right. |
| March 16, 2009 | NRO | Recession with Chinese Characteristics | A wasted century? |
| 2008 | |||
| August 19, 2008 | NRO | Chinese Shadows | Those little pork pies. |
| August 8, 2008 | Taki's Magazine | China's Island of Stability | Will they fall off it? |
| March 17, 2008 | NRO | From Tibet to Chicago | Don't feel Chinese, don't feel American. |
| 2007 | |||
| January 18, 2007 | NRO | The Chinese Are Coming … to Africa | But not the way Sir Francis Galton wanted. |
| 2005 | |||
| March 16, 2005 | NRO | Soft Power, Soft Despotism | China's present and future. |
| 2004 | |||
| August 12, 2004 | NRO | If You're API and You Know It … | … vote Democrat. |
| March 22, 2004 | NRO | The Taiwan Tango (cont.) | Presidential election in Taiwan. |
| 2003 | |||
| December 16, 2003 | NRO | The Taiwan Tango | Chen Shuibian gets his knuckles rapped. |
| November 10, 2003 | NRO | The Sad Country | A demonstration in China. |
| October 28, 2003 | NRO | Wife to a Footnote | Soong May-ling, R.i.P.. |
| October 15, 2003 | NRO | Thug (Uncredited) | Recalling Bruce Lee. |
| September 16, 2003 | NRO | Tibet's Long Agony | Rape of a nation. |
| July 15, 2003 | NRO | The Curtain Falls … | … on Hong Kong. |
| April 4, 2003 | NRO | Kim Jong Il: A Modest Proposal | Let's whack him. |
| 2002 | |||
| December 16, 2002 | NRO | Second-Guessing China | China up? China down? Who knows? Me. |
| October 22, 2002 | NRO | Nutso State Has Nukes | North Korea, that is. |
| September 10, 2002 | NRO | Bloomberg Disses Taiwan | New York's mayor does a kowtow. |
| September 5, 2002 | NRO | The Great Game | Maneuvers in Central Asia. |
| July 22, 2002 | NRO | China: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | A survey of the Middle Kingdom. |
| January 4, 2002 | NRO | The Single Talent Well Employed | Wang Ruowang, 1918-2001. |
| 2001 | |||
| November 30, 2001 | NRO | Sick Man of Asia | Pessimism about China. |
| November 5, 2001 | NRO | One Man's Terrorist | I practice humility. |
| September 17, 2001 | National Review | China: A Reality Check | I actually went there. |
| July-August 2001 | NRO | China Travel Diary | The Derbs do China. |
| June 26, 2001 | NRO | Neutral on the Olympics | Bush decides not to decide. |
| June 8, 2001 | NRO | A Song of Valediction | Translation of a Chinese poem. |
| May 1, 2001 | NRO | Not This August | China-Taiwan: What might happen. |
| April 30, 2001 | National Review | Communist, Nationalist, and Dangerous | Modern Chinese nationalism. |
| April 19, 2001 | NRO | Beware the China Boosters | Guess what? They're in it for the money. |
| April 19, 2001 | Taki's Top Drawer | Hainan At Home | China crisis in the living-room. |
| April 12, 2001 | NRO | America Grovels | China wins first showdown with Bush. |
| April 5, 2001 | NRO | What China Wants | Hint: They're commies. |
| April 3, 2001 | NRO | Don't Mess with the U.S.! | Trash that plane! |
| March 20, 2001 | NRO | China: A Call for Plain Speaking | What George W. Bush should say. |
| March 1, 2001 | NRO | No Chinese Olympics | Why Beijing shouldn't get the Games. |
| February 5, 2001 | National Review | The Tiananmen Papers | China's Three Kinds of Crises. |
| January 11, 2001 | NRO | China: The Tiananmen Papers | What we can learn from them. |
| January 5, 2001 | NRO | China: The End of Economism | Prospects for the next few years. |
| January 3, 2001 | NRO | The Pyongyang Follies | How to deal with North Korea. |
| 2000 | |||
| September 13, 2000 | VDARE | Importing Sino-Fascism? | Face to face with post-Mao Chinese nationalism. |
| August 29, 2000 | NRO | The Truth About China's Regime | China puts out a human rights document. |
| July 27, 2000 | NRO | Lips and Teeth | In praise of Chinese corruption. |
| June 9, 2000 | NRO | China's Philosophy of Oppression | Oderint dum metuant. |
| June 5, 2000 | The Weekly Standard | Hitting the Great Wall of China | The nature of Chinese nationalism. |
| May 24, 2000 | NRO | Another Silken Thread | Congress votes PNTR for China. |
| March 27, 2000 | NRO | Three One Eight: For China, the 20th Century Is Over |
The March 18 elections in Taiwan. |
| February 14, 2000 | The Weekly Standard | The Chinese, Too, Deserve to be Free | And we could help. |
| 1983-1999 | |||
| December 5, 1999 | The Weekly Standard | Hell, No, Uighur Won't Go | China's colonial problem in Eastern Turkestan. |
| May 27, 1989 | The Spectator | From Dumplings to Democracy | The Chinese Democratic Party gives a press conference. |
| July 25, 1987 | The Spectator | Getting Married in Manchuria | An account of my marriage. |
| November 16, 1984 | The Daily Telegraph | The Great Wall of Bureaucracy between China and Reform |
The difficulty of economic reform in China. |
| March (?), 1984 | The Daily Telegraph | China's Inscrutable Face Hides a Lost Cause for the West |
Pouring cold water on mid-1980s enthusiasm for China. |
| March 12, 1984 | The Daily Telegraph | China's Brutal Sham | An attack on the TV series The Heart of the Dragon. |
| July 30, 1983 | The Spectator | Dingnisheng and Shasibiya | Teaching Eng. Lit. in China. |
| March 12, 1983 | The Spectator | Nepotism in North Korea | The Kims, père et fils. |