A Tale of Two Cities
In part four of a five-part series on Putin’s Russia, Financial Times’ reporter Neil Buckley writes about two cities on the Sino-Russian border: Blagoveshchensk and Heihe. He describes the sometimes-prickly...
Read MoreJaphet Weeks
Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Kosovo’s Domino Effect
Kosovar independence could be bad news for China, writes Antoaneta Bezlova in Inter Press Service: Kosovo’s example is unsettling for China because it revives memories of the Chinese Communist Party’s own promises to minorities...
Read MoreThe Myth of the Authoritarian Model
Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss argue in Foreign Affairs that authoritarian governments may appear to be working in places like China and Russia, but the correlation between autocracy and growth is in fact spurious. They...
Read MorePutin on China Relations
At Vladimir Putin’s Annual Big Press Conference for domestic and foreign media outlets held on Feb. 14, the Russian president fielded a slew of questions. The following is a response to a journalist from Xinhua’s...
Read MoreChina, Russia Propose Weapons Ban in Space
At a disarmament conference in Geneva, Russia and China formally presented a plan to ban weapons in space. From the International Herald Tribune: Russia and China have pushed for years for a treaty to prevent an arms race in...
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