Can China Gain Journalistic Credibility?
China's Xinhua News Agency recently introduced a 24-hour English-language news channel and is about to open a high-profile newsroom in Times Square. The announcement indicates China's intent to spend...
View ArticleChina's Unwanted Nobel Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent dissident, who is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence on subversion charges. He has spent two decades advocating...
View ArticleWhat Obama Can Learn From India
On the eve of his visit to India, President Obama said the purpose of his trip was to open up "some of the fastest-growing markets in the world" to help create jobs in the U.S. Many American business...
View ArticleHow to Respond to North Korea
President Obama and the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, agreed on Tuesday night to hold joint military exercises as a first response to North Korea’s bombardment of a South Korean island, which...
View ArticleAi Weiwei and the Artist's Role in China
Ai Weiwei, China's best-known contemporary artist and a designer consultant for Beijing's Olympic stadium, the "Bird's Nest," was detained by the Chinese government on April 3, and is now under...
View ArticleChina's Scary Housing Bubble
China's unrelenting real estate boom has driven housing prices up by 140 percent nationwide since 2007, and by as much as 800 percent in Beijing over the past eight years. The soaring prices have even...
View ArticleChina's Debt Monster
China's booming economy has been showing signs of slowing down in recent months. Some economists say this is linked in part to rising levels of local government debt, which is the result of aggressive...
View ArticleShould the U.S. Keep Selling Arms to Taiwan?
The Obama administration this week approved a $5.8 billion arms deal to Taiwan, including upgrades to the island's old fleet of F-16 fighter jets. Beijing warned that U.S.-Chinese military relations...
View ArticleFewer Babies, for Better or Worse
A recent report from the Social Trends Institute points to falling fertility rates -- not only in Japan and Western Europe, but also in China and the United States -- and warns that "nations wishing...
View ArticleDoes the U.S. Need Troops in Australia?
In the first long-term expansion of the American military's presence in the Pacific since the end of the Vietnam War, the United States has agreed to deploy 2,500 Marines in Australia. President Obama...
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