In love and war
Seymour Topping’s love of storytelling has been matched only by his love for his wife, Audrey.
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A not-so-distant mirror: The fall of Nanking
Oct. 1 marks the 68th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Seymour Topping – who covered the fall of Nanking, ending Nationalist rule, for the Associated Press – looks back on a time with parallels to our own.
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Mao Zedong, spared
A baby, a teapot and a chance encounter that changed the course of Chinese history.
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The complex design of the ‘One China’ policy
Written by Seymour Topping President Donald J. Trump, in flippant disregard of a binding American historical commitment, thrust the United States recently into a…
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The Sino Hawaii
Written by Seymour Topping. China is developing Hainan Island, its tropical jewel in the South China Sea, into what its officials describe as an international…
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‘Pearls of luxury’
Written by Seymour Topping I confess to a lust for Beluga caviar — the choicest of pickled sturgeon roe, or eggs. On those rare…
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Journey between two Chinas: The Battle of the Huaihai
Written by Seymour Topping During my years as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and later The New York Times, I traveled to…
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Chinese Reaganomics
Written by Seymour Topping Reading the news out of Beijing nowadays, you may very well be puzzled as to what philosophy is guiding the…
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On the Old Silk Road with China’s ‘Celestial Horses’
In 1949, shortly before the end of China’s Civil War as the Communist troops were about to cross the Yangtze River to seize China’s…
Read MoreHalf the sky
“The successive movement of yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) is called the Way. What issues from it is good, and that which brings it…
Read MoreChina – the next superpower
By Seymour Topping As we look to the future, to our security in a turbulent world, there is no greater imperative than determining how…
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