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China's long reach goes beyond borders

The case of the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers, who all turned up in China, has rocked Hong Kong society to its core, shaking confidence in the mainland’s promises of “one country, two systems.” At the same time, it has placed China under a microscope with governments around the world accusing Beijing of rampant violation of human rights and international norms by abducting individuals and taking them to the mainland.

2016-03-11 17:11

For Taiwan independence

During the campaign leading up to Taiwan’s Jan. 16 elections, Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, took part in singing the national anthem at public events, but her lips visibly stopped moving when it came to the words “our party,” since they referred to the Kuomintang, which had been in power in Taiwan since the 1940s, save for eight years.

2016-01-28 16:33

Abe's China conundrum

Since early this year, Beijing has been capitalizing on the fact that 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and has repeatedly sought to embarrass Japan by reminding the world of its aggression against China in the 1930s and 1940s. China is also making use of the anniversary to show off its newfound status as a world power by staging a military parade on September 3.

2015-07-17 16:08

Time for China to live in the present

In November 2012, two weeks after becoming leader of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping visited the National Museum in Tiananmen Square. There, after viewing a grand exhibition called “The Road to Revival,” which recalls China’s century of humiliation beginning with the Opium War of 1840, Xi issued a call for achieving the Chinese Dream, or “the great revival of the Chinese nation.”

2015-04-14 17:43

AIIB should be open to more countries

The United States is opposed to the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ostensibly out of concern that it would adopt poor governance standards. But Washington’s far greater fear is that China could undermine and ultimately replace the American-dominated global financial architecture put in place at the end of World War II and usurp America’s place as the pre-eminent global leader.

2015-03-27 16:15

China should heed calls to save elephants

“China’s development will generate huge opportunities and benefits and hold lasting and infinite promise,” President Xi Jinping told business executives gathered in Beijing for the Apec meeting. "As China's overall national strength grows, China will be both capable and willing to provide more public goods for the Asia Pacific and the world."

2015-03-03 16:40

US, China vie for trade group leadership

When Barack Obama was in Beijing in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual meeting, the U.S. president met with the leaders of 11 other countries - Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Peru, Chile and Brunei - and called for the early conclusion of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a trade grouping that is intended to set high standards for the 21st century.

2015-02-15 16:04

HK government tells conflicting stories

Last Thursday, student leader Joshua Wong was at Hong Kong Commercial Radio to record a program when he ran into Chief Secretary Carrie Lam. The 18-year-old immediately reached into his schoolbag and pulled out a criticism of the government's public sentiment report released two days earlier.

2015-01-14 17:07

Brewing dispute in South China Sea

Early in 2013, the government of the Philippines initiated international arbitral proceedings against China over their maritime dispute in the South China Sea. Beijing announced that it would not take part, as is its right under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Nonetheless, the arbitral tribunal gave China a Dec. 15, 2014, deadline by which to respond.

2015-01-07 16:13

Taiwan's political landscape after local elections

The rout of the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, in Taiwan by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party in local elections Nov. 29 changed Taiwan’s political landscape overnight, making the DPP candidate for president in 2016 the odds-on favorite and possibly marking a change in cross-strait relations. While each of the “9-in-one” elections was a local race, cumulatively, they constituted a referendum on the performance of the Ma Ying-jeou presidency. And Ma was keenly aware of this, immediately issuing a public apology, promising reforms and giving up the chairmanship of the KMT.

2014-12-21 16:44

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