Best asian politics books according to redditors

Then there is this book about Australia. Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia

This is United Front in action - China's self-described "magic weapon", a special unit of it's government working to influence Western perception.
The Financial Times had a great article on it, here.


>This has given a boost to United Front efforts to woo overseas Chinese. Even though more than 80 per cent of around 60m overseas Chinese have taken on the citizenship of more than 180 host countries, they are still regarded as fertile ground by Beijing. “The unity of Chinese at home requires the unity of the sons and daughters of Chinese abroad,” says the teaching manual.

>It recommends a number of ways in which United Front operatives should win support from overseas Chinese. Some are emotional, stressing “flesh and blood” ties to the motherland. Others are ideological, focusing on a common participation in the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese people”. But mainly they are material, providing funding or other resources to selected overseas Chinese groups and individuals deemed valuable to Beijing’s cause.


There's also a new book all about China's attempts to influence Canada, called Claws of the Panda.

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This is but one of several attempts to soften public perception before a more aggressive stance take place. China plans 100 years ahead in many aspects, while our government rarely plans beyond an election cycle.

A good read for those interested in some of Chinas tactics.

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1743794800/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_c_d8LlDbKVATNPD

>They don't want territorial expansion

The fact that they steal so much and spy so much indicates that it's possible they haven't formally expanded due to a practical reason and not an ethical reason. Yet they're already heavily influencing Africa and, more frighteningly, Australia. The Chinese influence and population in Australia and New Zealand is rising so fast (already 5.6%) that military invasion would be a amateurish blunder; they're already getting what they want at a slow and steady pace.

> is my breaking point.

Is it though? Would you actually get angry and stand up for yourself if someone came to try and disrupt the rally? Pro-HK rallies in Vancouver have been repeatedly disrupted by pro-China protesters. Demonstrators at SFU also had their wall taken down.

Organizing something like this on reddit is a likely way to have a "counter-protest" show up. The CCP actually exerts considerable influence among Chinese-Canadians and foreign exchange students (and it's not like Carleton has any lack of those). Canada's leading Chinese newspaper is indirectly controlled by the Beijing government. There's a pretty good book on the subject if you want to read more.

Point being, this sub regularly complains about issues like stress and mental health issues brought on by school, which would pale in comparison to the stress brought on by actual political activism. The HK issue is a political crisis and not really the place for slacktivism. Personally, I'd support a rally, but I'm also not the kind of person who clutches my keys between my fingers while walking to my car at night. Just some food for thought.

Claws of the Panda - Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada


\^Required, very dry, reading for all interested in our relationship/history with the Chinese government.

Remember: It's the Chinese Communist Party we're against. Not Chinese people.

> Urban Naxals

If anyone is interested https://www.amazon.in/Urban-Naxals-Making-Buddha-Traffic/dp/1942426054/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=urban+naxals&qid=1565073927&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Tears of my Soul: https://www.amazon.com/Tears-Soul-Hyun-Hee-Kim/dp/0688128335

Silent Invasion is something I've been slowly making my way though. Old mate Huang is referenced in the index more times than Japan...Shall we send tissues along with our baby formula?

Here's my suggested reading list:

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

Escaping North Korea

This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood

White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea (Memories of War)

The Tears of my Soul: An autobiography of the bomber of Korean Air Flight 858

The Great North Korean Famine: How and why it happened, and why it will happen again and again.

> In terms of trade, China treats Australia far better than the US treats Canada.

Australia, however, is paying a price for that in other realms, especially political. I'd very much recommend reading https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Chinas-Influence-Australia/dp/1743794800

If you want to read an article about the book, NPR just recently covered Hamilton: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/627249909/australia-and-new-zealand-are-ground-zero-for-chinese-influence

edit: if you don't have a counterargument, don't downvote me. That's cowardice and very un-/r/geopolitics of you.

It's certainly not a debt trap. For example, Andrew Small is probably the only American academic who has studied the Pak-China relationship in detail. He even wrote a book called "The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics".

Even he doesn't think its a debt trap but rather a balance of payments issue on Pakistan's part. He talks about it after 30 mins mark in this podcast.

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Chinas-Influence-Australia/dp/1743794800

Thoughts Australians?

| They know that their neighbours in the south live better

Did they actually say this to you? Most defectees I have seen interviewed say they are taught and believed that south korea is a desolate wasteland where the people who live there are the slaves of Americans. They believed that just about all communicable disease came from the south.

In Kim Hyon Hui's book Tears of My Soul (about her role in the bombing of Korean Air flight 858) she describes how even when traveling abroad, she had mental blockages from her indoctrination that prevented her from recognizing that other countries were more prosperous than hers.

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If you're willing to skip your fast food for a day, you can read his book. It's less than 150 pages. You can complete it in 3-4 hours or so.

To know how AAP is different from Congress and BJP, read this.

What is Andrews thinking? He's either incredibly naive or complicit in Australia's continuing slide into rule by a foreign authoritarian enemy. Surely our security agencies can weigh in on this.

Silent Invasion: https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Clive-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B079WWT29L

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower: https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Marathon-Strategy-Replace-Superpower-ebook/dp/B00IWUI7B4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1540554195&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hundred+year+marathon

I'll recommend some books that I'm reading right now

Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman

Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan

Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman

Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu

In Afghanistan's Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations

The Terrorist Prince: The Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto

You may already have a good understanding of 20th century Korea but if not a good place to start is Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey. It covers the whole of the 20th century and helps place the democratisation movement in historical context.
As for books focusing specifically on the democratisation movement there is The Politics of Democratisation in Korea and Korea's Democratisation. Those three books should give you a fairly deep understanding but after this you could look at Democracy and Authority in Korea which looks at aspects of Korean democracy such as regionalism etc. The process of democratisation is included in their analysis IIRC. Finally there is Democracy After Democratisation which after a brief overview of the democratisation process it examines the consolidation of democracy in Korea.
I hope this helps somewhat. I can suggest a few journal articles too if you want something immediately to look at.

There is an interesting movie about the group and their infamous excursion up into the mountains outside Tokyo. Members ended up abusing and murdering each other (including pregnant women). Two of them escape down the mountain and hold a house on the side of it hostage and police do a multi-day siege of it setting the house on fire. Pretty dramatic shit.

Japanese left radicalism is actually very interesting, in many ways the Japanese Red Army represented the worst of the tendencies but many other groups fought for a better society.

I cannot recommend enough Dissenting Japan by William Andrews. It's probably the definitive book on Japanese post-war radicalism and counter culture. If you want to know more about this group and others definitely give it a read:
https://www.amazon.com/Dissenting-Japan-Radicalism-Counterculture-Fukushima/dp/1849045798

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Chinas-Influence-Australia/dp/1743794800/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524796577&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=the+silent+takeover+china

A great book just came out about it - The Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia

Clive Hamilton
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Chinas-Influence-Australia/dp/1743794800

BJP lost in Karnataka, UP, West Bengal, NE and many other states. There was no AAP to cut votes of BJP. Why BJP lost?

AAP has chance and a very solid chance but only if you give your precious vote to completely clean candidates which you can find only in AAP.

May be I'm not clear enough. Spend Rs. 99 for your country and read this if you care. You'll understand why we should change the present system and root out both Congress and BJP.

Jeg kan også anbefale en bok av en kvinne

If you really believe that there is no blatant anti-multicultaralist rhetoric in Thailand you must either live in a nice bubble or not be paying enough attention.

Clearly you are very passionate and love Thailand and ความเป็นไทย, but there have been books written about the Thai nationalist and anti-foreign rhetoric in politics. It does exist and you spouting ad hominem does not change that.

Respectfully, do you realize his trade and economic advisors at this point are Peter Navarro, and Steve Mnuchin - the guy who makes hollywood movies?

Peter Navarro is a UC Irvine teacher, but he also writes books like this

Death by China: Confronting the Dragon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-China-Confronting-Dragon-paperback/dp/0134319036/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523107516&sr=8-1&keywords=peter+navarro

Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World: https://www.amazon.com/Crouching-Tiger-Chinas-Militarism-Means/dp/1633881148/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1523107516&sr=8-3&keywords=peter+navarro

The Coming China Wars: Where they will be fought and how they can be won: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-China-Wars-Revised-Expanded/dp/0132359820/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1523107516&sr=8-4&keywords=peter+navarro



Peter Navarro is someone I watch closely at this moment. He is smart-ish, or very stupid.

That is the problem with trump. Yes, he is stupid. No, the people he stacked around him are not always stupid. They are often products of corporations and the best schools; that know exactly how they want different departments of the government reshaped.

With Peter Navarro around, I don't see this trade volatility stopping.

那只是你在牆内不清楚而己。中國的長手伸入美國，歐洲的例子已報導很多了。 他們对西方世界的核心價值和生活方式巳形成侵蝕。以後再鍵接一些有関中國統戦部海外活動的報導。

舉個例子就好: 你知道為什麼澳洲今天這麽反華嗎？讀一讀這本2018的書就知道:

Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Chinas-Influence-Australia/dp/1743794800

China's Vision of Victory: Jonathan D T Ward: 9780578438108: Amazon.com: Books

https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Vision-Victory-Jonathan-Ward/dp/0578438100/
>
> Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, on a scale not seen in generations. Working from a deep sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist Party is guiding a country of 1.4 billion people towards what it calls "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," and, with it, the end of an American-led world. Will this generation witness the final act for America as a superpower? Can American ingenuity, confidence, and will power outcompete the long-term strategic thinking and planning of China's Communist Party? These are the challenges that will shape the next decade and more. China's Vision of Victory brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions. From seabed to space, from Africa to the Arctic, from subsurface warfare to the rise of China's global corporations, this book will illuminate for the reader the new great game of our lifetimes, and how our adversary sees it all.

> Asian autocrats tend to respect rule of law more than historical European ones

Read this - https://www.amazon.com/Tying-Autocrats-Hands-Cambridge-Comparative/dp/1107071747.

>
Under what conditions would authoritarian rulers be interested in the rule of law? What type of rule of law exists in authoritarian regimes? How do authoritarian rulers promote the rule of law without threatening their grip on power? Tying the Autocrat's Hands answers these questions by examining legal reforms in China. Yuhua Wang develops a demand-side theory arguing that authoritarian rulers will respect the rule of law when they need the cooperation of organized interest groups that control valuable and mobile assets but are not politically connected. He also defines the rule of law that exists in authoritarian regimes as a partial form of the rule of law, in which judicial fairness is respected in the commercial realm but not in the political realm. Tying the Autocrat's Hands demonstrates that the rule of law is better enforced in regions with a large number of foreign investors but less so in regions heavily invested in by Chinese investors.

You can get this book off Amazon used for a couple bucks. I did, and its a really interesting read. It's about a North Korean agent who got caught after the Korean Air bombing in the 80s, she goes on to tell her whole story about her life before and her life after she became a NK Spy/Agent.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0688128335/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=

Because the Zionist claim on Greater Israel is hardly a secret. In fact they initially rejected the 1948 Partition plan since it didn't give them all of the "Greater Israel" that they demanded which included Jordan. Anyone who knows anything about history knows this.
That's why to this day Israel is not declared her borders. Ben Gurion spefically said that it would go from Damascus to the Sinai, and the Litani https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887282350/

Futhermore the idea that Israel is "just trying to protect itself" is already discredited by even Israeli historian given access to the new documentation, who point out that Israel rejected multiple peace offers by the same neighbors in favor of conflict and expansionism
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0005/The%20War%20of%20the%20Israeli%20Historians.html

Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Diversity After 9/11 by Kenan Malik put forward the same thesis. I guess the key thing is to keep one's head as everyone around loses theirs.

> Seems like there’s a western agenda going on here.

...as if the Communist Party of China doesn't have its own agenda vis-a-vis "the west"..??

Just watched this insightful interview with foreign correspondent and author Jonathan Manthorpe, who authored “Claws of the Panda”.

Amazon review:
> Claws of the Panda tells the story of Canada’s failure to construct a workable policy towards the People’s Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa’s failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadian politics, academia, and media, and to exert control over Canadians of Chinese heritage.

> Claws of the Panda gives a detailed description of the CCP’s campaign to embed agents of influence in Canadian business, politics, media and academia. The party’s aims are to be able to turn Canadian public policy to China’s advantage, to acquire useful technology and intellectual property, to influence Canada’s international diplomacy, and, most important, to be able to monitor and intimidate Chinese Canadians and others it considers dissidents. The book traces the evolution of the Canada-China relationship over nearly 150 years.

> It shows how Canadian leaders have constantly misjudged the reality and potential of the relationship while the CCP and its agents have benefited from Canadian naivete.

>Not a single country is threatening to invade Australia.

Yeah because they do it without a word.

>You might be interested in the book Tears of My Soul by Hyun Hee Kim. She was the North Korean spy who helped blow up a Korean Airlines flight 585 in 1987. She was caught and sentenced to death in South Korea and then pardoned. She wrote Tears of My Soul after that, in it she talks about her life in N.K, training as a spy, and her impressions of the Western world and South Korea when being confronted with it. Well worth reading. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Tears-Soul-Hyun-Hee-Kim/dp/0688128335/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264467525&sr=1-1

>Wiki on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon_Hui

Source: Are there any video's of people from North Korea visiting the western world showing their first reaction?

Part 2

Propaganda:

Books:

● The Tears of My Soul: Hyun Hee Kim: 9780688128333: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Tears-Soul-Hyun-Hee-Kim/dp/0688128335/

● The Korean War (9780671668341): Max Hastings
http://www.amazon.com/The-Korean-War-Max-Hastings/dp/067166834X
"Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion". It's the SAME LIE about a "North Korean invasion".

● MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero: Stanley Weintraub
http://www.amazon.com/MacArthurs-War-Korea-Undoing-American/dp/1439152942

"Acclaimed historian Stanley Weintraub offers a thrilling blow-by-blow account of the key actions of the Korean War during the months of MacArthur's command. Our lack of preparedness for the invasion." It's the SAME LIE about a "North Korean invasion".

● This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition: T.R. Fehrenbach: 9781574883343
http://www.amazon.com/This-Kind-War-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/1574883348

"Unlike any other work on the Korean War, it provides both a clear panoramic overview and a sharply drawn "you were there" account of American troops in fierce combat against the North Korean and Chinese communist invaders". It's the SAME LIE about a "North Korean invasion".

● Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953: Robert Leckie: 9780306807169: Amazon.com: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Conflict-The-History-Korean-1950-1953/dp/0306807165

"In June 1950 Communist forces poured across the 38th Parallel ". It's the SAME LIE about a "North Korean invasion".

 

Films/Shows:

● Mash (tv series 1972-1983) based on the film, Mash (1970), which is based on the book, MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/
To pay respects to the 3,000,000+ Korean who were EXTERMINATED by American bombs, this situation comedy is made. It's based on the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Yes, let's ignore the fact that millions of innocent Koreans died for no reason and instead of learning to stop committing genocide, let's sympathize with the white people who murdered them.

 

● Korea Patrol (1951)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234052/
Plot: North Korea invades South Korea and a white American "hero" saves the day. As I explained earlier, this is a LIE. This is how they brainwash generations of people to think oif North Koreans as "evil invaders" and Americans as the "defenders of truth and justice".

 

● Battle Hymm (1957)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050171/
A white American saves Korean orphans. No word about the 3,000,000 Koreans that were MURDERED by Ameican bombers.

 

Even, inside South Korea, there is propaganda against North Korea
● Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/
North Korea invades South Korea. Both brothers are forcibly conscripted. Again, this is a LIE as I have proven.

 

● 71: Into the Fire (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587729/
A group of 71 inexperienced South Korean student-soldiers defended a local middle school from "evil North Korean" forces. Once again, no word on the genocide committed by white Americans along with their white allies.

There's a lot more but you get the point. More of dispicable lies that white people use to cover up their crimes and blame others for their GENOCIDES can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_Korean_War

 


Sources:

● The best source by Stone, who was the pre-eminent investigative reporter of that era. His research is impeccable.
The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951: A Nonconformist History of Our Times: I. F. Stone: 9780316817707: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Korean-1950-1951-Nonconformist/dp/0316817708

● The Korean Atrocity: Forgotten US War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity | Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-korean-atrocity-forgotten-us-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity/5335525

● The imperialistic intervention in Korea
https://redkorea.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/the-imperialistic-intervention-in-korea1.pdf

● Who Really Started the Korean War? by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/07/28/who-really-started-the-korean-war/

● The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960 北朝鮮の破壊と再建’、1950-1960年 | The Asia-Pacific Journal
http://www.japanfocus.org/-charles_k_-armstrong/3460/article.html

Wild Grass might be a good read for you! It's also written by a journalist, but it's more about the current court system in China. Very interesting though.

http://faculty.wwu.edu/rcm/Marx%20for%20502.htm http://www.amazon.com/The-State-Tributary-Mode-Production/dp/0860916618

China created the rogue nuclear states of NK and Pakistan. It was brilliant on how it came about.

China gave their nuclear bomb designs to Pakistan, and missile technology to North Korea. Then NK and Pakistan swapped each other's technologies and acquired a full nuclear launch capability. All the while China claiming plausible deniability. This is classic back stabbing China. No surprise really.

>Although the Chinese profess to be against nuclear proliferation, documented evidence illustrates just the opposite -- as a means of asserting Chinese hegemony, complicating American security policy and undermining American influence.


Both North Korea and Pakistan are the bane of their existence to their neighbors. All thanks to China. What China has done to destabilize global security is unimaginable if not unpardonable.


Must read books on the subject.

Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb

Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb

The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics

North Korea's Serious New Nuclear Missile Threat


Don't be surprised if one of these two rogue terrorist countries detonates the next nuclear weapon. Either intentional or stolen by jihadis. Just a matter of time. We can all thank China then.

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