• Not Backing Down: China Responds to the US Rebalance to Asia

    *Author, Wu Xinbo is Professor and Deputy Director, the Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. Predictably, the last US presidential election campaign featured the usual competition between candidates over who would be “tougher” on China, a ritual political exercise that is almost always followed by even greater American engagement…

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  • Challenging ASEAN:The US Pivot Through Southeast Asia’s Eyes

    *Author, Donald K. Emmerson heads the Southeast Asia Forum in the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. The US pivot toward Asia has been viewed largely through the lens of American security and economic competition with China. Within that context, writes Donald K. Emmerson, Washington is also deepening its…

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  • West Asia

    Turkey’s Former Chief Of Staff Under Questioning Over His Role In Toppling Former Gov’t In 1997

    Turks wave national flags and his posters as Ismail Hakki Karadayi, Turkey’s former Chief of Staff, arrives at a courthouse in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. A prosecutor on Thursday began questioning Karadayi over his role in the ousting of an Islamic-led coalition government in 1997. Police escorted Karadayi,…

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  • West Asia

    Radical Group Members Hold Rally In Dhaka To Demand Gov’t Declare Ahmadiyya Muslim As “Non-Muslim”

    Members of the radical group Tehreek e Khatme Nabuyat run from a riot policeman using a teargas spray outside the National Mosque compound in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The protest was held to demand the government declare Ahmadiyya Muslims as “Non-Muslim,” according to media reports. Members of the…

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  • East Asia

    Memory of Kim Jong-il on the occasion of the first anniversary of his demise

    One year has passed since the untimely demise of Marshall (posthumously promoted to Generalissimo) Kim Jong-il. Thus it is probably an appropriate time to say a few words about the deceased dictator, and perhaps to focus less on his shortcomings and focus more on the nicer parts of his personality…

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  • East Asia

    13 wishful actions Asian leaders hoped to take this year

    1. Could I have a dream that Mr. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; President-elect of the People’s Republic of China, will play a greater role in the global peace of the yellow continent and the world? Shops and houses are filled with Chinese…

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  • N. Korea’s blackmail missile

    TOKYO ― The Unha-3 rocket launched from Sohae in North Korea on the morning of Dec. 12 passed through Japanese air space over the island of Okinawa 12 minutes later, and crashed into the Pacific Ocean roughly 300 kilometers east of the Philippines. The launch could be considered a mild…

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  • East Asia

    New leaderships to reset NE Asia relations

    Park to move cautiously amid regional spats, analysts say With the election of Park Geun-hye as the next president, South and North Korea, Japan and China have all elevated new leaders in a series of rapid-fire transitions. Northeast Asia’s political perfect storm is here, and analysts warn the confluence of…

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  • Invitation to President-elect

    “I regard a rising India as a factor of peace and stability in the world and expect her role to get bigger progressively” observed Madame Park Geun-hye when I called on her last May, soon after she had led her party to an impressive victory in the National Assembly elections.…

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  • East Asia

    NK leader calls for better ties with South

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un emphasized improved inter-Korean relations during a rare New Year’s address, Tuesday, and vowed to spur “radical” improvements in his country’s outdated economy. In the first such address since 1994, when Kim’s late grandfather Kim Il-sung spoke, the young leader urged Seoul to reaffirm its commitment…

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