Golden Gate University (
GGU, here in San Francisco) and the Sompong Sucharitkul Center for Advanced International Legal Studies is hosting a symposium entitled "The Politics of International Law". It takes place at GGU School of Law, 536 Mission Street, Room 2201, San Francisco on 4/18 from 9am-5pm. (with all of these all-day conferences, [...]

Last week I wrote about Celine Dion’s concert being canceled and made a joke about how annoying she is. And I got hate mail!
Damn, Josh beat me to this story and has the hate mail to prove it. Just as well, I suppose. I thought his comments were fairly benign (mine would have been slightly [...]

Thomas Chow takes the press to task for hyperbolic language on the Chinese economy. Some good stuff here. It's easy to write a story about a tanking stock market and extrapolate about the nature of the economy as a whole. But it just isn't accurate, and 10% growth, as Thomas rightly points out, ain't nothing [...]

There have been a lot of fun stories over the years about Chinese spies in the U.S. Every once in a while the authorities find some guy and prosecute him, the two governments yell at each other about it, and then everything goes back to normal. I find all this rather boring most of the [...]

Here's the latest issue of China Human Rights and Rule of Law Update, the newsletter of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China [PDF from this site | HTML from CECC site].