Reporter Tyler Marshall examines one of the most significant but barely noted developments in current world politics -- the dramatic and rapid spread of China's influence in southeast Asia and the western Pacific, including countries like Australia, Thailand and the Philippines that have long been regarded as staunch American allies. His reporting demonstrates that while U.S. policy-makers have focused on terrorism and the Middle East the world beyond is changing fast.
By Tyler Marshall, SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH | August 26, 2006. St. Louis Post-Dispatch .
Solid economy, diplomatic ties attracting allies. By Tyler Marshall, Globe Correspondent | August 13, 2006. The Boston Globe.
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From the Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2006
China is making impressive economic inroads among nations where the U.S. once had all the clout. By Tyler Marshall
U.S.-South Korea Relationship
Has Soured by Tyler Marshall & Mark Mazzetti. Los Angeles
Times, January 17th, 2006
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China's stature growing in
Asia, Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2003
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The Wal-Mart Effect: A three-part
series from the Los Angeles Times profiling the retail giant
and its business practices.
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Iraq: Lack of funds may imperil
office fixed on rebuilding. Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2005
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U.S. Pushes Neighbors to Support
Fledgling Regime (co-authored with Solomon Moore). Los Angeles
Times, November 12, 2005
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Los Angeles Times interview
with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (with Paul Richter)
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The Price of Asia's Growth.
Los Angeles Times, June 11th, 2005
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“Kunming-Bangkok highway under construction. Courtesy of the Asian Development Bank.”
Tyler Marshall is an American journalist with extensive experience covering international events, including armed conflicts and major political change in the Middle East, East Asia and Europe. During a career of 27 years at the Los Angeles Times, he had four foreign assignments in Europea and two in Asia. He also reported in-depth in Washington, from the State Department, Congress and the White House on the formulation and execution of American foreign policy. He has been recognized with an array of awards including a Pulitzer Price in 2004 for his work on a series about the global impact of Wal-Mart. He has also worked for magazines and a major wire service.
On China’s Rise
Washington Observer’s Editor in
Chief, Lily Chen, interviewed Tyler Marshall on his experience in
Asia. (Chinese language) Click here to read:
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Chinese translation of Tyler’s article
“Southeast Asia’s New Best Friend”. Click here to read:
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China's Charm: Implications of Chinese
Soft Power By Josh
Kurlantzick . Policy Brief No. 47, June 2006 Published by the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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“Latest on China”: links and resources
from Real Clear Politics
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22-Nation Poll Shows China Viewed
Positively by Most Countries Including its Asian Neighbors. BBC
World Service Poll [March 05, 2005].
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Sources and Limits of Chinese 'Soft
Power' . May 29, 2006.
Bates Gill, CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and Yanzhong Huang
have published an article on Chinese soft power in Survival, a journal
of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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The Promise and Pitfalls of China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’. Esther Pan, staff writer at the Council on Foreign Relations. April 14, 2006 Link
China: Getting the Questions Right
by Richard K. Betts and Thomas J. Christensen. The National Interest,
Winter 2000
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America Views China’s Rising 2004.
David M. Lampton, Dean of Faculty and Director of China Studies
at Johns Hopkins-SAIS and Director of Chinese Studies at The Nixon
Center and former President of the National Committee on U.S.-China
Relations.
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On China’s Relations with Australia, the Phillipines and Thailand
Australians speak 2005: public opinion
and foreign policy. Ivan Cook. Report contains insights on issues
ranging from Australian defence policy to relations with Australian
friends and allies. (Cited in LA Times article)
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Thailand-China Relations: From Strategic
to Economic Partnership. By Chulacheeb Chinwanno, Thammasat University,
Bangkok, Thailand.
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Joint Statement of the Republic
of the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China; following
the State Visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao. 28 April 2005
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