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U.S. Japan Relations: A Friendship Grown Cold

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...

Poland: Disillusion Trumps Obama’s Popularity

On my first night living in Poland last summer, I asked my host mother, a 44-year-old Polish elementary schoolteacher and mother of two, her opinions...

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

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”

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

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...

Not our backyard but still our neighbors

With the gunshots subsiding and the police force under government censure for its attempted overthrow of Ecuador’s democratic president Rafael Correa, order appears to...

Ukraine’s Soul Search

Exactly eleven months ago yesterday I sat on a bus rattling its way through countryside on my way to L’viv, an artistic, cobblestone city in the...

A Shadow Falls On The Empire of the Sun

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?

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

In Iraq, Messy is Better

A close election indicates a strengthening democratic process