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- Why Is America Humiliating Japan? - Forbes - October 30, 2009
- President Obama starts his November trip to Asia with a visit to Japan. He has four other stops on the itinerary--Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul--but none of...
- Beijing Violates North Korea Sanctions - Wall St. Journal - October 16, 2009
- Kim Jong Il hugged Wen Jiabao on the Chinese premier's arrival in Pyongyang on October 4. Analysts were surprised at the time that the reclusive North Korean supremo...
- America's Favorite Rogue State - Forbes - October 9, 2009
- On Oct. 8, a suicide bomber killed 17 people and wounded at least 63 in Kabul, outside the Indian embassy, by detonating a sport utility vehicle packed with explosives....
- Will There Be a War in Asia? - Forbes - October 3, 2009
- On Sept. 15, New Delhi labeled as "factually incorrect" reports that Chinese troops had wounded two Indian border policemen sometime in early September in northern...
- 60 Years of Chinese Communism - Wall Street Journal - October 1, 2009
- There are, it is sometimes said, "a million truths in China." As the Communist Party celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic today,...
- A Break in China's Communist Wall - Forbes - September 25, 2009
- Has a crack just appeared in China's mighty Communist Party? The Fourth Plenum of the Party's 17th Central Committee ended on Sept. 18, and the big news is that...
- Use Sticks, Not Carrots, on Pyongyang - Weekly Standard - September 16, 2009
- On August 29, the North Korean government released four South Korean fishermen whose boat had strayed into Northern waters a month earlier. The return of the crew came...
- For Tehran, Talk Is Cheap - Forbes - September 11, 2009
- On Wednesday, Tehran submitted to Germany and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council a proposal to restart talks with the international community. "We...
- Will Japan Become a Chinese Colony? - Forbes - September 4, 2009
- On Sunday, the Democratic Party of Japan swept the ruling Liberal Democratic Party from power, capturing 308 out of the 480 seats in the lower house of the Diet. Its...
- U.S.-Japan Alliance in Peril? - Forbes - August 29, 2009
- On Sunday, Japanese voters look like they will end the reign of the Liberal Democratic Party, which has, with but one short interruption, ruled the lower house of the...
- The Folly of South Korea's Sunshine Policy - Forbes - August 21, 2009
- Former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung died Tuesday at the age of 83. Often called "the Nelson Mandela of Asia," Kim dedicated his early years to fighting the...
- India's China Problem - Forbes - August 15, 2009
- China and India wrapped up their 13th round of border talks on Saturday in New Delhi. The meeting produced agreements on various matters, such as the installation of a...
- Clinton and Pyongyang's Hostages - Wall Street Journal - August 5, 2009
- Everyone can be happy that Bill Clinton won the release of two imprisoned American journalists on his surprise visit to Pyongyang yesterday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were...
- The G-2's First Official Meeting - Forbes - July 31, 2009
- This week, the U.S. and China ended the first round of their "Strategic and Economic Dialogue," which could be called the G-2's first official meeting. About 200 Chinese...
- Hillary Makes the Right Call on India - Forbes - July 24, 2009
- What has Hillary Clinton been doing in Asia in the last few days? First, she strengthened ties with the world's most populous democracy, visiting Mumbai and New Delhi...
- Who's a Better U.S. Ally: China or Russia? - Forbes - July 10, 2009
- In Moscow this week, President Obama scored two major accomplishments. He agreed to a framework for making deep cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both countries and...
- The Coming Trade War with China - Forbes - July 3, 2009
- This Monday, the U.S. International Trade Commission, in a 4-2 vote, recommended the imposition of punitive duties on Chinese-made tires. This "Section 421" case now...
- Korean War II - Wall Street Journal - June 30, 2009
- At this moment the Kang Nam, a North Korea tramp freighter, is on the high seas tailed by a team of American destroyers and submarines and watched by reconnaissance...
- Obama Needs Some Seoul Searching - Forbes - June 19, 2009
- This week, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, also known as the Bulldozer, rolled into Washington. He came, he saw, he may have even conquered. The visit, his first...
- China's Unrelenting Buying Spree - Forbes - June 13, 2009
- This week Beijing is fuming over Rio Tinto's rejection of a planned $19.5 billion investment by Chinalco, one of China's state-owned enterprises. The official Chinese...
- U.S. Has Plenty of Leverage with Beijing - Forbes - June 5, 2009
- This week Timothy Geithner completed his first trip to Beijing as U.S. Treasury secretary, and from his account the three-day visit was a great success. The Chinese, he...
- The Forgotten Tiananmen Massacre - Weekly Standard - June 3, 2009
- In 1996, Min, then in her mid-20s, expressed disbelief when she first heard of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. The tragedy had come up in a casual dinner...
- Will Taiwan Defect to China? - Forbes - May 23, 2009
- On Wednesday, Ma Ying-jeou marked his first anniversary as president of Taiwan by calling his initial year "fruitful." And he had just cause for doing so. His most...
- Beijing's Propaganda Goes Global - Forbes - May 6, 2009
- On April 30, China's State Council banned "foreign financial information providers" from undertaking "news gathering activities" inside the country. The new measure...
- Beijing Fibs Economic Facts - Forbes - April 22, 2009
- On April 16, Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy grew 6.1% in the first quarter of this year. Analysts around the world hailed the...
- China and Russia Get Cozy - National Review - April 14, 2009
- At the end of last week, Japan gave up trying to get the United Nations Security Council to pass a binding resolution sanctioning North Korea for its April 5 missile...
- North Korea Gets Ready to Launch - March 29, 2009
- There will? And what would those be, Madame Secretary? Mrs. Clinton specifically mentioned “consequences to the six-party talks, which we would like to see revived.”...
- China's Assault on the Dollar - Forbes - March 27, 2009
- "I don't believe that there's a need for a global currency," said President Obama Tuesday night during his prime-time press conference. Well, the Chinese sure do. Zhou...
- Coke Isn't It for China - Forbes - March 25, 2009
- On Mar. 18, Beijing rejected Coca-Cola's proposed acquisition of China's leading fruit juice company. The Ministry of Commerce, applying the country's new anti-monopoly...
- Hostile China Tests Obama - March 18, 2009
- And what did the United States do in response to this extremely provocative behavior? “President Obama and Foreign Minister Yang discussed the overall state of the...
- China's Military Gets a Hike - Forbes - March 11, 2009
- On March 4, Beijing said that this year's military budget will increase 14.9%. The jump in spending is "modest," insisted Li Zhaoxing, the spokesman for the annual...
- The New Menace from Pyongyang - Forbes - February 25, 2009
- In weeks, if not days, North Korea will fire off either a Taepodong-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile or the Paektusan-2 space-launch vehicle. The U.S. and allies...
- Mrs. Clinton Goes to China - Forbes - February 11, 2009
- Hillary Clinton, breaking recent tradition, will go to Asia on her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Beginning the middle of this month, she will visit Japan,...
- Will China Buy American Debt? - Commentary Magazine - February 2, 2009
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- China Is Susceptible to Currency Pressure - Forbes - January 28, 2009
- On Saturday, Beijing expressed its displeasure with the Obama administration, calling its criticisms of China's currency policies "untrue and misleading." "We should...
- Japan's Mounting Discontent - Forbes - January 25, 2009
- "If I dissolved the lower house immediately, would that be an effective economic policy?" asked Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso last week. "Politics would halt for two...
- Chinese Century Gets Even Rockier - Forbes - January 7, 2009
- Twelve months ago, Beijing looked forward to 2008, thinking it would mark the beginning of the Chinese century. And in many ways the year looked as if it did. The...
- Thirty Years of Engaging China - January 4, 2009
- The end of the Cold War largely removed the reason for the engagement of China, but there was no reevaluation of policy. And for a time, there appeared to be no need for...
- China's Growing Military Might - Forbes - December 21, 2008
- This is the fourth in a four-part series. See parts one, two and three. Mao Zedong exported revolution. Thirty years ago, his successor, Deng Xiaoping, reversed course....
- China: World's Most Dynamic Society - Forbes - December 20, 2008
- This is the third in a four-part series. See parts one and two. Starting in early November and continuing into this month, taxi and bus drivers went on strike in more...