2017-01-05
Crouching Tiger: John Mearsheimer on Strangling China & the Inevitability of War
source: DeathByChina 2016年3月9日
As part of the research for my Crouching Tiger book on the rise of China’s military and its companion documentary film, I interviewed 35 of the top experts in the world from all sides of the China issue. These are key edited excerpts from my sit-down at the University of Chicago with Professor John Mearsheimer, author of the realist classic work The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
"My argument, in a nutshell, is that if China continues to grow economically over the next 30 years, much the way it has over the past 30 years, that it will translate that wealth into military might. And it will try to dominate Asia, the way the United States dominates the Western Hemisphere. And my argument is that this makes good strategic sense for China. Of course, the United States will not allow that to happen if it can. And the United States will, therefore, form a balancing coalition in Asia, which will include most of China's neighbors and the United States. And they will work overtime to try to contain China and prevent it from dominating Asia. This will lead to a very intense security competition between the United States and China's neighbors on one hand, and China on the other hand. And there will be an ever-present danger of war. "
View more excerpts in this video. Visit http://crouchingtiger.net to learn more about the book and film.
Peter Morici: China is the menace of this decade
source: Fox Business 2016年12月28日
Economist Peter Morici on the state of housing and President-elect Donald Trump's impact on trade, the markets and the U.S. economy.
China and the United States on the Brink of Nuclear War? / The Coming War On China (John Pilger)
source: Good Morning Britain 2016年12月6日 / Broadcast on 06/12/16
John Pilger has speculated that China and the US could be heading for war over economic and military expansion in the South China Sea.
source: The Big Picture RT 2016年12月9日
Thom talks with author and filmmaker John Pilger about his new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III.
China and the U.S. Are Long-term Enemies?
source: IntelligenceSquared Debates 2015年10月16日
Is China's ascendancy a threat to the U.S.? China's rise as an economic and military power, coupled with its aggression in the South China Sea, have led some to call for a major rebalance of U.S. policy and strategy. Can China be trusted to act as a responsible global stakeholder? And will they be a long-term ally, or adversary?
Magda Zaborowska - “Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation: James Baldwin’s Queer Dwellings”
source: Yale University 2016年11月23日
Magda Zaborowska is a professor in the Departments of American Culture and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Her research and teaching fields include literary and cultural studies approaches to intersections of social space and transatlantic discourses on race, nationality, sexuality, and gender; African American literature; immigrant ethnicities, feminist, and critical race theory; and post-totalitarian East-Central Europe. She has taught and been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon, Furman University, Tulane University, Aarhus University in Denmark, University of Italy in Cagliari (Sardinia), and Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier in France. Among her published works are the MLA award-winning James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile; How We Found America: Reading Gender through East European Immigrant Narratives; and the edited and coedited collections Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism; The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature; and Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures in the East-West Gaze. Current book projects include “Me and My House: James Baldwin and Black Domesticity” and “Racing Borderlands,” a monograph on the proliferation of American notions of race and sexuality in post–Cold War Eastern Europe.
Building Better Nanodiscs | Harvard Medical School
source: Harvard University 2016年12月1日
Harvard Medical School researchers have improved the design of tiny nanodiscs—synthetic models of cell membranes used to study proteins that control what enters and leaves a cell. The enhancements provide an unprecedented view of how viruses infect cells.
Unstructured proteins: cellular complexity and human diseases (by Madan Babu Mohan)
source: The Royal Society 2016年12月7日
Francis Crick Prize Lecture 2016 given by Dr Madan Babu Mohan
If DNA is the blueprint of life, proteins are the building blocks. Research over the last century has shown that the shapes adopted by proteins determine their functions. Mutations that affect their shapes cause human diseases. However in recent decades, scientists have discovered that a large number of proteins do not adopt defined shapes. Nevertheless, these unstructured proteins perform functions that are critical for the survival of organisms.
Join Dr Mohan to discover how unstructured proteins perform their functions, contribute to cellular complexity and cause human diseases including cancer and neurodegeneration.
Image of intrinsically disordered protein. Copyright Dr Madan Babu Mohan.
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