Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes in The New Republic about a changing world in which Russia and China are proving that autocratic rule is a viable model for economic...
Read MoreFrom Pacific Forum CSIS: Surprises and exciting finishes are the rule in Taiwan’s elections. In the months before the presidential election on 22 March, Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou led Democratic Progress Party...
Read MoreIndia steps gingerly around the issue of Tibet so as not to offend it’s dominant neighbor to the north. From the New York Times: Since protests against China broke out among the Tibetans who make their home in exile here,...
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Just two weeks after Tibetan monks first took to the streets in protest against Chinese rule, unrest broke out among Muslim Uighurs in China’s remote Xinjiang region. Details about the demonstrations remain...
Read MoreChina’s largest English daily, China Daily, writes a four-page online editorial to debate CNN and other western media’s reporting on Tibet, claiming “CNN website publicized a picture showing people running in...
Read MoreThe recent riots and protests in and around Tibet have echoed around the world — they’ve also caused a new rash of metajournalism, that is journalism about journalism. Jonathon Ansfield has written a lengthy,...
Read MoreRick Morrissey writes on Chicago Tribune, saying that Boycotts don’t seem to accomplish much when it comes to the Olympics. The rumble of protest is growing louder. Outrage over China’s treatment of Tibetans has led...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Olympics have so far failed to catalyze reform in China and pledges to improve human rights before the Games look disingenuous after a string of violations in Beijing and a crackdown in Tibet, Amnesty...
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer writes in support of Tibetans and against China’s policies in Xinjiang and Tibet: In February 1997, thousands of Uighurs demanding equality, religious freedom and an...
Read MoreFrom AP: Turning attention from efforts to calm the U.S. credit crisis, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson meets Wednesday with China’s new point man on strained trade ties with Washington — a former star banker who Paulson...
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