China Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
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China Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny
The Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University has published...
Xi Jinping Outlines More Assertive Foreign Policy Goals
On Saturday, November 29, President Xi Jinping followed up on China’s hosting of the APEC...
Will China’s Rise Lead to War?
As the country’s new official map indicates, China’s assertion over its maritime...
In South Korea, Xi Looks to Increase Regional Clout
President Xi Jinping arrived in South Korea on Thursday for a state visit that is seen as...
Macau Trumps Vegas As Global Casino Capital
Kate O’Keeffe reports for The Wall Street Journal that “it now takes Macau’s...
Obama’s Absence in Asia: A Turning Point?
President Obama has cancelled his trip to Southeast Asia in order to deal with the ongoing...
China Flexes Its Regional Muscle
Via NPR and the New Republic, Ellen Bork, director of democracy and human rights at the Foreign Policy Initiative, writes about how Nepal is caught between its two powerful neighbors, India and China: …Nepal has become the...
At APEC, Obama Calls on China to Play by the Rules
As leaders from APEC nations met in Hawaii for their annual gathering, President Obama called on China to follow the rules in its trade practices. From Reuters: Obama, under pressure to create jobs at home and eager to highlight...
South China Sea Do-Si-Do
A Wall Street Journal editorial looks at disputes between China and its neighbors over territory in the South China Sea, and what it means for the U.S.: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is holding to the line she laid down...
Nepal Caught Between China and India
Nepal’s historic relationship with India is facing a challenge from an increasingly influential China, the Los Angeles Times reports: Early this month, after 17 attempts to name a prime minister, reflecting Nepal’s...
India Digs In Its Heels as China Flexes Its Muscles
India is recalibrating its approach to China as China’s influence expands throughout the rest of Asia, the New York Times reports: It has been the season of geopolitical hugs in India — with one noticeable exception. The...
China’s Billions Reap Rewards in Cambodia
The Washington Post’s John Pomfret reports from Koh Kong, Cambodia: Here in the depths of the Cardamom Mountains, where the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge communists made their last stand in the late 1970s, China is asserting...
Oceanic Display Leaves Neighbours Queasy
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the not-so-subtle political undertones of the Asian Games’ opening ceremony in Guangzhou: Asian emissaries at the opening ceremony found themselves awkwardly applauding a display of...
Back from Asia, Obama Weighs Strategic Partnerships, China’s Economic Muscle
The Christian Science Monitor gives a post mortem on President Obama’s Asia trip and the “elephant in the room”: Stops in India and Indonesia were charm offensives that yielded goodwill, commercial deals, and...
China Looms as Obama Tries to Strengthen Ties with Asian Democracies
A McClatchy report on President Obama’s recent trip to Asia was really all about China, despite the fact that the country wasn’t on his itinerary: And each of the four countries has its own foreign policy...
Obama and China Play Rival Suitors to Indonesia
As President Obama visits his boyhood home of Indonesia, the New York Times looks at the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China to influence the country: As the United States and China step up their rivalry in Southeast...
Ian Buruma: What is Driving China’s Recent Thuggish Approach to Foreign Relations?
Writer Ian Buruma attempts to answer that question in a piece in the Guardian: China’s recent thuggish behaviour is changing Asian opinions. As the warm welcome given to Hillary Clinton on her recent swing through Asia –...
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