Has ‘Little Brother’ Gone too Far
January 7, 2016
By David O’Brien Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies UNNC. Whether this week’s nuclear explosion detonated under a mountain just a hundred miles or so from the border with China was a hydrogen bomb or not the PRC’s relationship with North Korea may have been irreparably damaged. In perhaps its strongest ever criticism of …
Still as Close as Lips and Teeth?
December 17, 2013
By Dr. David O’Brien, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Mao Zedong said that China and North Korea are “as close as lips and teeth”. We can only wonder what Mao – a master of political theatre – would have made of the stunning purge of Jang …