Howard W. French

Howard W. French is the author of China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa. An associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he is working on a book about the future of Chinese power.

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JINING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28: (CHINA OUT) People wearing raincoats participate in 2014 Confucius Memorial Ceremony on September 28, 2014 in Jining, Shangdong province of China. Memorial ceremony to mark the 2,565th birthday anniversary of Confucius was held in Jining on Sunday. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

How China’s History Shapes, and Warps, its Policies Today

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Howard W. French, Ian Johnson, Jeremiah Jenne, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Robert A. Kapp, Tobie Meyer-Fong

March 22, 2017, 3:04 PM

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Dear Obama: Corruption Isn’t Just Africa’s Problem

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Howard W. French

July 30, 2015, 1:18 PM

This picture taken from a Vietnam Coast Guard ship on May 14, 2014 shows a Vietnamese Coast Guard officer taking picture of a China Coast Guard ship moving toward the Vietnamese ship near to the site of a Chinese drilling oil rig (R, background) being installed at the disputed water in the South China Sea off Vietnam's central coast. Vietnam National Assembly's deputies gathered for their summer session are discussing the escalating tension with China over the South China Sea's contested water. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)

The South China Sea Could Become a Dangerous Contest of Military Might

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Howard W. French

June 5, 2015, 12:30 PM

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From Quarantine To Appeasement

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Howard W. French

May 20, 2015, 10:37 AM

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When Will China’s Government Collapse?

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Ho-fung Hung, Arthur R. Kroeber, Howard W. French, Suisheng Zhao

March 13, 2015, 9:53 AM

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