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ANTI-MISSILE MISSILES MISSING THE POINT
Protests in South Korea, Japan Times/AP photoJAPAN TIMES APRIL 3, 2014By Philip J CunninghamThe much-touted Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile battery is being hastily set up in...
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MISSILES MAR MAR-A-LAGO SUMMIT
XI GOT P LAYED, BUT HE PLAYED IT WELL(JAPAN TIMES, APRIL 10, 2017)By Philip J Cunningham“Fruitful” said the People’s Daily, while an upbeat China Daily described the Mar-a-Lago meet...
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America's besieged president plays the game of looking presidential on a lengthy trip abroadJapan Times, May 22, 2017By Philip J CunninghamU.S. President Donald Trump likes to talk and he likes to...
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HOW MANY MORE YEARS?
A million people rejoice at Tiananmen during high tide of peaceful protest in May 1989
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SAIYUD KERDPHOL: NOVEL IDEAS FROM AN OLD GENERAL
Talking with General Saiyud Kerdphol at Siam Intercontinental in Bangkok (Photo by Jintana Mae)Conversation with Saiyud Kerdphol: a no-nonsense nonagenarian.by Philip J...
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JUMPING TO THE RIGHT: JAPAN RIGHTISTS PRESSURE THE PRESS
Jumping to the Right(first published in the Asia-Pacific Journal, February 1, 2005)Philip J. Cunningham “My Country is Burning!”At first glance, the handful of Tokyo rightists who created a furor...
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CHINA'S TV WAR MACHINE
New York TimesThe Opinion Pages| OP-ED CONTRIBUTORChina's TV War MachineBy PHILIP J. CUNNINGHAM SEPT. 11, 2014 (reposted)China, the late 1930s. A village is under siege by Japanese troops. A band...
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ENCOUNTER BY THE RIVER
JOHN Joyce doesn’t want to jump, but he’s drawn to the repressed fury of the river. The angry slosh of water washes through the benumbed Bangkok night like the alcohol coursing through his...
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BEIJING IS WATCHING JUSTIN BIEBER
COMMENTARY / WORLDThere is something repugnant about China subjecting people to a party-line 'history test'BY PHILIP J. CUNNINGHAMSPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMESJUL 24, 2017ARTICLE HISTORYPRINTSHARERuling...
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BLOOD, SOIL AND BRONZE
Losers of lost wars looking for a fight in Japan and US alike...BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMJapanese Prime Minister Abe famously rushed to New York in November 2016 to obtain an “audience” with the gilded...
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EYE OF THE STORM
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMTurn on the tube or flick open your phone and the drumbeat of violence is everywhere. It’s on the nightly news and on the police and procedural dramas that precede and surpass the...
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JUST IN TIME
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0789PBNXF(known as Time-release Karma in its former incarnation) American English teacher John Joyce is back in Thailand trying to come to terms with missed chances and lost...
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TIANANMEN MOON, A lyrical remembrance
A first-hand account of events at Tiananmen Square in 1989(excerpt from the 25th Anniversary Edition, Rowman&Littlefield, 2014) “Trying to Remember, Trying to Forget”Now that China has landed a...
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FUJI: A Japan Odyssey
Available as a paperback or ebook at AmazonINTRODUCTION TO THE NOVELFUJI tells the story of an American rewriter at a major Japanese TV station who gets in trouble with...
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CHINA'S TV WAR MACHINE
New York TimesThe Opinion Pages| OP-ED CONTRIBUTORChina's TV War MachineBy PHILIP J. CUNNINGHAM SEPT. 11, 2014 (reposted)China, the late 1930s. A village is under siege by Japanese troops. A band...
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TIANANMEN WAS A TRAGEDY
Tiananmen was a tragedy Beijing won’t face up to, regardless of death tollPhilip Cunningham says whether or not 10,000 is an accurate account of the number killed at the Tiananmen uprising, we know the...
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NO MORE THAN TEN FOREIGNERS...
Beijing’s ban on gatherings of foreigners in restaurants raises eyebrows, and questionsPhilip J. Cunningham says Beijing’s ban on foreigners congregating in restaurants may be rooted in the fear that...
View ArticleA WORLD SAFE FROM FACEBOOK
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THE MEDIA STRIKES BACK
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