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North Korea and China: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?

Kaiyang Huang - November 26, 2010

Never in recent decades have tensions in the Korean peninsula been so high. North Korea's recent artillery barrage against a South Korean island has...

Dealing With Chinaphobia

Alastair Su - November 22, 2010

Among my American friends, I've not met a single person who hasn't had some kind of reaction after watching this. Of the recent spate...

Here Comes The Bully: China’s Rare Earth Blunder

Alastair Su - November 9, 2010

Two months ago, just when the Senkaku incident between Japan and China seemed to reach a deadlock, China played an unexpected card. Industries in...

U.S. Japan Relations: A Friendship Grown Cold

Alastair Su - October 31, 2010

Just this week, the White House announced that during President Obama’s visit to Japan for APEC, he would not be stopping by Hiroshima and...

Weighing In: China’s One-Child Policy: No U-Turn Ahead

Kaiyang Huang - October 16, 2010

This is a follow-up post on Alastair Su's blog post "Taking a Cue From Thailand's Mr Condom", looking specifically at China's one-child policy and...

Debunking Human Rights as “Anti-Chinese”

Alastair Su - October 16, 2010

Last week's decision to award Chinese Liu Xiaobo with the Nobel Peace Prize was hailed by many around the world, but condemned by the...

Taking A Cue From Thailand’s Mr. Condom

Alastair Su - October 9, 2010

Since its inception in 1978, China's one-child policy has always been marked by controversy. While the government has claimed that the policy has prevented...

A Shadow Falls On The Empire of the Sun

Alastair Su - October 2, 2010

In his landmark book, The Clash Of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, Samuel Huntington made the following prediction: East Asia could develop...

Bowing to the Chinese Century?

Jimmy Wu - September 23, 2010

Thomas Friedman, yesterday, in this Times column, found his rhetorical flourish yet lost his practical sensibility. In a fairly particularly common theme for him,...