CHINA, NORTH KOREA AND THE UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS-CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 16.3.10

DISPATCH FROM BEIJING With Jeff J. Brown

China feels the same way, but has to be a little more subtle about it. A North Korean propaganda poster.

Listen and/or read here: There are a number of ways to look at the ongoing situation between China, North Korea and the upcoming international sanctions being debated by the United Nations Security Council. So far, the proposed restrictions include limits on mineral exports, “except for livelihood purposes”, as well as a list of North Korean ships that cannot dock in Chinese ports.

Albright at a recent reception. [CC BY-SA by mdfriendofhillary]

North Korea propaganda posters follow the historical realism school of political communication. The country sees America as its first and ultimately implacable enemy and in that sense they are absolutely right.

jeff@brownlanglois.com 44 Days poster with blurbs 25pc (1211 x 856)

ABOUT JEFF BROWN

Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2016. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene

In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.

Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.