Month: April 2014

By Marcus Noland | 30 March 2010   This month, North Korea reportedly executed the Korean Workers' Party's economic policy director, Pak Nam Gi, for being a "bourgeois infiltrator" who ruined the...

Rick Rozoff 20 January 2010   Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China's (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington...

Nick Amies 02 February 2010   A $6.4-billion (4.6-billion euros) arms deal between the United States and Taiwan has enraged China and threatens to endanger cooperation betweenWashington and Beijing on key international and regional issues. The Pentagon's approval last...

Sohail Rahman   As I travelled from the airport to Marine Drive on November 27, 2008 the sun was setting and the roads leading from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in the north of...

The conflict between Sri Lanka's government forces and armed Tamil rebels has raged for nearly 60 years. Thousands have died and many more have been made homeless by the fighting.  ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is on his first official trip to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy and climate change. Mr. Obama arrived late Sunday in Shanghai....

The Dalai Lama has angered the Chinese government with a visit to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery town in the remote northeast Indian region of Arunachal Pradesh. The Tibetan spiritual leader said his visit on Sunday...

Yevgeny Bazhanov When I was assigned to work at the Soviet Embassy in Beijing in 1982, many of my fellow diplomats asked, “What did you do wrong to get such...

Brad Glosserman The United States has scaled back plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. While that decision reflects a new assessment of the Iranian threat to...

Chris Patten Every country is shaped by its history, but countries fabricate and rewrite their histories, too. The story of how we became who we are needs to accommodate our...

Minxin Pei   Don't believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the...

Christina Larson   The Chinese government can put down a riot -- but its heavy-handed tactics ensure that ethnic tensions will keep simmering. On Sunday, more than 1,000 Uighurs clashed with...

Joshua Kurlantzick   ost days, the scene around Democracy Monument, a set of giant statues in the center of the old part of Bangkok, seems almost like a carnival. Pushcart...

Joshua Kucera   his decade, Pakistan has been one of the largest recipients of US military aid in the world, receiving almost $12 billion. Yet the security situation there continues to...

Joanna Lillis     ot so long ago Kazakhstan was entertaining aspirations of becoming one of the world’s 50 largest economies. Now, Astana finds itself in a position where it must...