Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Friday, November 9, 2012
Many of our friends in China are participating in global aloha day: 12/12/12
Peking University President Xu Zhihong with Professor Don Eads at the Theater
share kindness with each other
Many events are being planned all over the world and in China.
global aloha day bracelets are free
Contact:
Don Eads
deads@hawaii.edu
Skype: Donald.Eads
Sunday, September 30, 2012
8th Annual 21st Century China Symposium
Identity Challenges in US-China Relations
Summer 2013
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
UH Manoa
July 11-14
Dedicated to
Professor Vince Pollard: UH/EWC
William Edward Eads: Stanford Law School
Friday, March 2, 2012
Review of Pacific Gibraltar
Good friend Glyn Ford wrote the review in Asian Review.
Check it out
Here is a snippet:
"1 March 2012 — Despite the title, this is a history of Hawaii in the run up to the overthrow of the monarchy by U.S. ‘colonizers’ in 1893 through to Hawaii’s annexation by the United States in 1898. Morgan is currently a professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College and previously served with the State Department including time in Tokyo. His revisionist thesis is to claim the annexation was less due to the exigencies of the Spanish American War of 1898—Morgan claims the traditionally accepted motivation—and more to the fears of a Japanese creeping takeover of the islands with Tokyo’s demands for Japanese suffrage."
Thursday, December 29, 2011
China faces the Future Confronted by the Past
Mogao Grottoes
The challenge of modern China, as we note at every symposium, is to balance the new economic model with the plight of poor rural peasants. The job market for migrant workers has grown stale and this provides a much greater modicum of social unrest which could lead to civil war.
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/12/richard-haass-china%E2%80%99s-greatest-threat-is-internal/
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
People to People Relations Needed in US China Stalemate
Time for people-to-people relationships
- Kaiser Kuo
"It wasn't long ago that encounters between the two countries were pretty much stage-managed," says Kuo, a New York-born rock musician and director of Baidu International Communications. "Sister cities were established, and trade delegations traveled back and forth."
Today, he says, the need for real people-to-people relations has become critical as China's rising power has become a topic of debate in US elections. While the US is experiencing a crisis of confidence, China is riding a surge of nationalism.
"Both nations have a great sense of destiny and a sense of exceptionalism," he says, and public opinion in both countries is more important than ever.
The Internet, he adds, is not always an asset in the relationship.
"The Internet was supposed to make us all hold hands and sing Kumbaya," he says, "but in reality the average citizen in each country knows just enough about the other to be dangerous."
Kuo recalls the events of May 1999 when US planes bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, an attack the White House said was a tragic mistake.
"At that time, there were 8 million people online in China," Kuo says, "and the outrage was immense".
"Imagine if that happened today, with 500 million Chinese online. The river of fire could overflow almost instantaneously, with people on both sides of the Pacific eager to think the worst of each other."
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