After much controversy, the Olympic Games will start in Beijing. However, the world’s eyes are not on the athletes but on the Chinese authorities and the way they handle the...
Relations between two of East Asia’s great powers, China and South Korea, have been strengthened after a period of uncertainty with the February inauguration in Seoul of a pro-...
The Sichuan earthquake disaster has highlighted many changes in China. One is the country’s willingness to accept outside aid, in contrast to the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, when...
Despite the seeming sophistication of the country’s current generation of leaders, China’s heavy-handed denunciation of the Dalai Lama since the March 14 Lhasa riots, blaming...
The triumph of Ma Ying-jeou, the Nationalist Party (or Kuomintang) candidate in the presidential election in Taiwan, brings to an end eight years of rule by the pro-independence...
Ever since it won the right to host the 2008 Olympics seven years ago, China has been hoping that the summer Games would substantially raise its international prestige. But there...
The defeat of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan was expected, but the magnitude of its January 12 parliamentary election loss took everyone by surprise, including...
China’s decision to allow Hong Kong to elect its own chief executive in 2017 and the entire legislature in 2020 is a momentous step forward, both for Hong Kong and for China,...
