Chinese Dominance Spreads Across South China Sea
It boils down to this: China will dominate the South China Sea unless it is checked. The United States and China’s East Asian neighbors can curb China’s creeping imperialism, but only if and when they...
View ArticleChina’s Cadres Face a Subdued Future
China’s two most important political bodies convene this week in a 10-day double conference, confronting a new and somewhat subdued world, with concern rising over the possibility of deflation, a...
View ArticleStumbling US Foreign Policy Breeds Concern in Asia
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View ArticleUpdate: Chinese Journalist Jailed For 7 Years
Gao Yu, one of China’s most prominent dissident journalists, has been formally sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets. She was tried in November after having been...
View ArticleCan the Sino-Russian Lovefest Last?
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View ArticleChina Ignores an Important SEA Conference
One of the most important conferences in Southeast Asia — the Shangri-La Dialogue — will take place at the end of May in Singapore without what should be its most important participant – China....
View ArticleChina Dissolves Part of Another ‘Unequal Treaty’
Further evidence is emerging of the opportunistic nature of Chinese relations with Russia despite the recent ostentatiously friendly visit to Moscow of President Xi Jinping. That evidence belies the...
View ArticleFact, Fiction and the South China Sea
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View ArticleGetting China to Play by the Rules
Hopeful of a rhetorical rumble between the US and China, reporters flocked to cover the 2015 Shangri-La dialogue. Challenged to put things into context in a few short paragraphs that justified their...
View ArticleAsia Realigns to Meet China’s Challenge
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View ArticleChina, India, Japan, US in Indian Ocean Great Game
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View ArticleWill the Waters of the East China Sea Start to Boil?
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View ArticleChina Rewrites Southeast Asia’s WWII History for the Big Parade
The outpouring of Chinese propaganda about its self-proclaimed victory over Japan 70 years ago has drowned the actual history of Asia during World War 2. China, well supported by western media, likes...
View ArticleXi Visit: Little Impact on Sino-US Relations
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View ArticlePossible Wriggle Room on South China Sea Claims
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View ArticleDouble Blow for China in the South China Sea
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View ArticleReturn of the Arc of Democracy
The United States sends an aircraft battle group composed of the USS John C. Stennis with escorting destroyers and cruisers on a cruise into the South China Sea. Washington also dispatches B-2 stealth...
View ArticleWhat if the US Tilt Doesn’t Work?
The Obama administration has never plainly acknowledged that it faces a major challenge from China to the US-led order in Asia, and it has therefore never clearly explained its strategy to deal with...
View ArticleObituary: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (1967-2016)
As 2016 chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations, the Laotian People’s Democratic Republic is leading the group toward political irrelevance. And that is doubtless how China, the hand...
View ArticleTwo Minds on China
The fictional Doctor John Doolittle traveled from England to Africa many years ago and discovered a rare creature called the pushmi-pullyu. It looked something like a gazelle, but with no tail. Instead...
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