Via The Diplomat, a look at the soft power, social capital, and shared stories the sport will stimulate are difficult to measure, but invariably will enhance the quality of the bilateral relationship:
The 2024 Olympics in [...]
October
11,
2024
Via The Athletic, a look at the possibility of the NBA returning to China:
Five years after the NBA’s last game in China, commissioner Adam Silver believes the league will return to the country at some point. The NBA has [...]
Via The Athletic, an article on Dikembe Mutombo:
Big John seemed to speak Dikembe Mutombo into existence.
This was 1988. I was covering John Thompson — not the Georgetown Hoyas, the team he coached. As with almost [...]
September
26,
2024
Via The Guardian, a report on the Chollima’s under-20 team which has returned with a hyper-talented squad after being absent from competition for half a decade:
They’re coming for you. They’re coming for you. [...]
Via the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a report on the potential for Australia to utilize sports diplomacy in the Pacific:
As China’s coercive influence tightens around the Pacific islands, Australia finds itself in [...]
September
1,
2024
Via The New Yorker, a report on the growth of tennis in China and the complex role of the nation in the global sport:
There are approximately twenty-three million tennis players in China and exactly one Olympic [...]