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China's Rail Diplomacy Hits Thailand - N. Limsamarnphun, China Post

China's so-called “high-speed railway diplomacy” has made its way to Thailand. A joint Thai-Chinese committee is exploring the feasibility of building the first standard-gauge ...

China-EU Ties Lost in Translation - Fraser Cameron, China Daily

When Catherine Ashton, European Union (EU) foreign policy chief, visits China this week, she will have an opportunity to focus on how to move EU-China ties forward. To her credit, ...

Obama Sanctions North Korea ... and China - CS Monitor

The Korean Peninsula has known neither war nor peace since a conflict there in 1950-53 ended with an unstable truce. In March, however, the mood changed. North Korea snk a South Ko...

China's Rights Progress Not Enough - Frank Ching, China Post

The current Chinese constitution, promulgated in 1982, guarantees the Chinese people a host of rights, which include "freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, ...

China: The View from Hawaii - Michael Auslin, National Review

While Washington sounds an uncertain trumpet, Pacific Command has no illusions about the rise of China....

Is a Food Crisis Around the Corner? - Thomas Barnett, World Politics Review

The 600-pound gorilla in the room -- the exploding global middle class -- is looking mighty hungry....

Obama Is Right to Be Hard-Nosed on China - Minxin Pei, Financial Times

In many ways, Mr Obama's evolving China policy is more grounded in reality....

U.S. Posture Risks Clash With China - Clifford McCoy, Asia Times

SINGAPORE - As the United States strengthens its military-to-military ties in Southeast Asia, the risk is rising that the "soft power" competitive dynamic ...

China's Rise Comes with Responsibilities - Hiroshi Matsuno, China Daily

GDP is an index that demonstrates the economic scale of a country and the influence it exercises. That China's GDP is reportedly the second largest in the world signifies it is the...

Labor Strife Reveals China's Power Struggle - Sentaku Magazine

Since May, a number of factories in China have been hit by strikes and other forms of labor disputes, and an end seems to be nowhere in sight. Most of the plants targeted by the s...

China, India Must Think Big - Times of India

Taking exception to Beijing's refusal to grant a visa to Lt-General B S Jaswal, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command, on the ground that he is in charge ...

Why China's Model Will Fail - Chrystia Freeland, Washington Post

Forget the "Ground Zero mosque," Michelle Obama's Spanish holiday and even the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. When future historians look back to the summer of 2010, the event th...

The Pentagon's Worried View of China - Cato Institute

Despite occasional conciliatory language, the overall tone of the Pentagon's just-released annual report to the US Congress regarding China's military power seems more worried and ...

Indonesia: Between U.S. & China - Stanley Weiss, Int'l Herald Tribune

It was 62 years ago this week — on Sept. 2, 1948 — when the principles underlying Indonesia’s foreign policy were first articulated. In a Cold War speech to the...

Rivalry Grows Between China's Top Leaders - Willy Lam, Asia Sentinel

An intriguing talk by Premier Wen Jiabao in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has thrown light on Wen's intensifying discord with President and Chinese Communist Party Chi...

Kim Jong Il's Shadowy Trip to China - Bill Powell, Time

The international man of mystery boarded the midnight train from Pyongyang, headed (for reasons known only to him and his unforthcoming hosts) to China. It's the only foreign co...

Kim Jong Il Goes to China - Korea Times

It was extraordinary for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to travel to China only three months after his previous visit to the neighboring country. It was also strange for Kim to ...

Pentagon's Pointless Battle Plan for China - David Axe, The Diplomat

The apparent sea change in the Pacific balance of power seemed to come all at once earlier this month. And it has seen the US military scrambling to find a new tack to allow it to ...

China's Discreet Hold on Pakistan's Northern Border - Selig Harrison, IHT

While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan....

How Africa Can Become the Next BRIC - Jim O'Neill, Financial Times

The continent's combined current gross domestic product is reasonably similar to that of Brazil and Russia, and slightly above that of India....

A New World Map and Brazil's Foreign Policy - Celso Amorim, The Hindu

It has a role in a new framework as the world may no longer be an exclusive club....

North Korea's Unpredictable Behavior - Stratfor

The timing of Kim's trip is odd for several reasons....

Germany's Dangerous Dependence on China - Der Spiegel

Germany largely has China to thank for its current economic upswing, given the Asian powerhouse's demand for German machine tools and other such products. But many German industria...

Has China Given Up on Obama? - James Mann, The New Republic

Over the last few months, China has had several fairly nasty public rows with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Robert M. Gates, the two highest-ranking mem...

Will Fear Win China the Yellow Sea? - Michael Richardson, Japan Times

If America fails to send the carrier into the Yellow Sea with South Korea it will embolden hardliners in China and set a precedent that will be widely interpreted in the region as...

Kim Snubs Carter as Realities Intrude - Donald Kirk, Asia Times

If there is any compensation prize for Carter's failure to see Kim Jong-il, that has to be the release of the American teacher-preacher, Aijalon Gomes....

China Has Money, America Has Guns - Adrian Hamilton, The Independent

China's rise to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy has released the usual burst of Gibbonian pronouncements on the rise and fall of nations and the passage of po...

Don't Boost Emerging Powers Too Soon - Jorge Castaneda, Los Angeles Times

Granting emerging economic powers a greater role on the world stage too soon could weaken the international system that upholds democracy, human rights, nuclear nonproliferation an...

Solving the South China Sea Spat - Shen Dingli, The Diplomat

Australia and the ICJ could help resolve the tensions over the South China Sea. China shouldn't fear internationalization....

Hostage Deaths Test China-Philippine Ties - Joel Adriano, Asia Times

The apparent official mishandling of the incident, where at least five Hong Kong and three Chinese Canadian tourists were killed, also threatens to undermine Philippine relations w...

China Warns Its U.S.-Friendly Neighbors - Frank Ching, China Post

China is warning Asian countries that holding military exercises with the United States is bad for their health....

Evaluating China's Military Strength - Michael Mazza, National Review

The Department of Defense's new report provides too little analysis, and arrived too late....

The Yen's Lesson for the Yuan - Joseph Massey & Lee Sands, New York Times

President Obama should pair his export initiative with a push for China and other countries to increase their direct investment in the United States....

China's Mekong River Water Grab - John Lee, Foreign Policy

Forget the South China Sea. If America really cares about strengthening its presence in Asia, it'll focus on the Mekong River instead....

Afghanistan Now East Asia's Chess Board - Jaswant Singh, Japan Times

The urgent task facing U.S. President Barack Obama is to get American strategy out of its cul-de-sac and move it in a direction that balances its own national interests with those ...

What's the Right Pacific Strategy for U.S.? - Gail Harris, The Diplomat

For much of the past couple of decades, the Persian Gulf region has been seen as the US national security policy hot spot. But in recent months especially a series of events have...

China's Resilience a Gut Check for U.S. - Michael Spence, CS Monitor

Michael Spence is chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development associated with the World Bank. A professor emeritus at Stanford University, he was awarded ...

A Win-Win for China and Japan - Anthony Rowley, Business Times

NEWS this week that the size of China's economy surpassed that of Japan's in the second quarter of 2010 generated a good deal of excitement, not least among newspaper editors (this...

ASEAN Human Rights? A Pipe Dream - Kavi Chongkittavorn, China Post

Early this month, the U.N. special envoy for Burma (also known as Myanmar), Tomas Ojea Quintana wrote a letter to the chairman, Do Ngoc Son, of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Comm...

Nationalism Holding Back China's Rise - Steve Tsang, The National

As China becomes more assertive in its foreign policy, there are signs that its neighbours are increasingly uncomfortable with its reach. Japan may increase its submarine fleet i...

Solving Asia's Water Crisis - Mong Palatino, The Diplomat

As the contradictions of Asia’s water challenges have been laid bare this summer—with millions affected by flooding while others are hit by droughts—one thing h...

Obama's Stimulus Spending Enriches China - Gordon Chang, Forbes

Need another argument why Washington should refrain from further stimulus spending? Of course you don't--your list should already be too long--but let me tell you what Andy Xie s...

For China, Will Money Bring Power? - Piers Brendon, New York Times

The sleeping dragon has now awoken with a vengeance....

Some Perspective on China's Military Threat - China Post

China may not want to expand by invading other countries, but it definitely is eager to preserve its territorial integrity, which has been undermined by a small missing piece sinc...

Beijing's South Pacific Conquest - Balaji Chandramohan, The Diplomat

Fiji has been back in the news, but this time not because of a coup or ethnic violence—problems that have wracked the tiny South Pacific island nation in recent years. Instead,...

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