Gregory Lee 利大英
@gblee.bsky.social
Writer and academic. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. Professeur émérite, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon. 香港人文學院院士. Formerly SOAS/PKU/Cambridge/UChicago/HKU/BBC/社科院. Founding Director IETT, Lyon. Gen editor Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本 跨文化.
/and the power that is meant to counter such behaviour, the United States, has been under Donald Trump’s administration little better."
That was 2018. Since, the list of hooligans passing for respectable heads of government has expanded, and what I called "hoodlum diplomacy" is now common currency.
That was 2018. Since, the list of hooligans passing for respectable heads of government has expanded, and what I called "hoodlum diplomacy" is now common currency.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
/and the power that is meant to counter such behaviour, the United States, has been under Donald Trump’s administration little better."
That was 2018. Since, the list of hooligans passing for respectable heads of government has expanded, and what I called "hoodlum diplomacy" is now common currency.
That was 2018. Since, the list of hooligans passing for respectable heads of government has expanded, and what I called "hoodlum diplomacy" is now common currency.
In China Imagined in 2018 I wrote:
A new form of political show is now widespread. It involves a set of practices that are common currency not only in China, but also in Russia and Turkey. The conduct of these countries’ foreign policies has become no more than a virulent form of ‘hoodlum diplomacy'
A new form of political show is now widespread. It involves a set of practices that are common currency not only in China, but also in Russia and Turkey. The conduct of these countries’ foreign policies has become no more than a virulent form of ‘hoodlum diplomacy'
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In China Imagined in 2018 I wrote:
A new form of political show is now widespread. It involves a set of practices that are common currency not only in China, but also in Russia and Turkey. The conduct of these countries’ foreign policies has become no more than a virulent form of ‘hoodlum diplomacy'
A new form of political show is now widespread. It involves a set of practices that are common currency not only in China, but also in Russia and Turkey. The conduct of these countries’ foreign policies has become no more than a virulent form of ‘hoodlum diplomacy'
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Yes. It's the kinship of authoritarianism.
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
The Chairmen, Trump and Mao
The January 13, 1967 issue of TIME magazine featured Mao Zedong on its cover with the headline “China in Chaos.” Fifty years later, TIME made U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its Man of The Year. Wit...
www.chinafile.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Yes. It's the kinship of authoritarianism.
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
What I'm quoted as saying:
"If you can get an entire institution to back off from criticizing China's human rights record, that's much more efficacious than dissuading just one scholar."
"If you can get an entire institution to back off from criticizing China's human rights record, that's much more efficacious than dissuading just one scholar."
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What I'm quoted as saying:
"If you can get an entire institution to back off from criticizing China's human rights record, that's much more efficacious than dissuading just one scholar."
"If you can get an entire institution to back off from criticizing China's human rights record, that's much more efficacious than dissuading just one scholar."
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM