Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

  8. Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), p. 476.

  9. Aviation Week and Space Technology, September 14, 1998, p. 58f, and September 21, 1998, pp. 30–31.

10. “Successful Launch of First Satellite in DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea],” http://fas.org/news/dprk/1998/980904-kcna.htm.

11. Gilman’s statement at hearings of the House International Relations Committee, February 25, 1999; Tenet, New York Times, February 3, 1999. See also “Opening Statement from Benjamin A. Gilman, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee, at Hearings Regarding U.S. Policy Toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Northeast Asia Peace and Security “Special Report,” March 24, 1999, from NAPSNet@nautilus.org.

12. Washington Post, August 27, 1997.

13. New York Times, August 28, 1997.

14. “Special State Department Briefing,” U.S. Information Agency Transcript, August 26, 1997.

15. Newsweek, September 8, 1997.

16. New York Times, August 17, 1998.

17. Selig S. Harrison, “The Korean Showdown That Shouldn’t Happen,” Washington Post, November 22, 1998; Executive Intelligence Review, January 1, 1999, p. 46. Evidence of unauthorized disclosure of highly classified intelligence information for political purposes can be found in Bill Gertz, Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999). Gertz, an avowed enemy of President Clinton, is the defense reporter for the Washington Times, one of the primary vehicles for disseminating leaked C.I.A. and D.I.A. documents. This book includes photocopies of highly classified documents published without U.S. government permission (pp. 219–84).

18. C. Kenneth Quinones, “North Korea’s ‘New’ Nuclear Site—Fact or Fiction?” Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network, Special Report, Policy Forum On-Line, no. 21, October 5, 1998, available from NAPSNet@nautilus.org or on-line at http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/fora/21A_Quinones.html.

19. Pacific Stars and Stripes, February 27, 1999.

20. Philip Shenon, “Suspected North Korean Atom Site Is Empty, U.S. Finds,” New York Times, May 28, 1999.

6: China: The State of the Revolution

  1. “Transcript: President Clinton’s Remarks at Beijing University,” June 29, 1998, at http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/uscn/wh/1998/0629e.htm.

  2. The New York Review of Books, August 8, 1996.

  3. Andrew C. Janos, “Modernization or Militarization: Germany and Russia as Great Powers,” German Politics and Society 14.1 (Spring 1996); “What Was Communism? A Retrospective in Comparative Analysis,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 29.1 (March 1996).

  4. See Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed., The Developmental State (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).

  5. Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1994.

  6. See Chalmers Johnson, “Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Government-Business Relationship in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan,” in Frederic C. Deyo, ed., The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 136–64.

  7. Gerard D. Postiglione and Grace L. Mak, eds., Asian Higher Education: An International Handbook and Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997), p. 41 (on China) and p. 349 (on Taiwan).

  8. For a good description of this aspect of Taiwan’s political economy, see Karl J. Fields, “KMT, Inc.: Party Capitalism in a Developmental State,” Japan Policy Research Institute Working Paper, no. 47, June 1998.

7: China: Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and Trade

  1. Los Angeles ‘Times, February 11, 1999.

  2. Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1999.

  3. Free China Journal, March 5, 1999, p. 2.

  4. New York Times, March 24, 1999.

  5. See “The Rumsfeld Report: How Soon Might the U.S. Homeland Face a Threat from Ballistic Missile Proliferation?” Proliferation Roundtable at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 17, 1998, on-line at http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/rumsfeld.htm.

  6. Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1999.

  7. I am indebted to participants in the Conference on International Issues in the South China Sea, sponsored by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, September 20, 1995, for many of these points. See also Victor Prescott, “The Spratly Islands,” Quadrant, October 1995, pp. 58–63.