List of Asia articles
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Nur Iman holds a picture of her father in front of the White House in Washington in September. I Was a Model Uighur. China Took My Family Anyway.
Beijing says it’s releasing people from the camps. So where are my parents?
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G-20 summit dinner Trump’s Credibility With China Plummets
The U.S. president’s casual request for an investigation of the Bidens has Beijing saying no thanks—and largely ignoring his demands as trade talks look headed for a tough run.
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Workers at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing Does the World’s Longest Undersea Tunnel Have a China Problem?
A Chinese-financed project to connect the Estonian and Finnish capitals has hit a snag as Europe ponders how to deal with Beijing’s economic heft.
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Yao Ming dunks at an NBA game The NBA Is China’s Willing Tool
The Houston Rockets are enforcing Beijing’s political controls in America. They’re not alone.
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Seyil Eldos with his three younger brothers on the outskirts of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on May 17. Eldos’s biological father died of a heart attack, and his mother married her husband’s younger brother, as is traditional. Eldos’s three brothers were born to the second marriage. A Family Stranded by China’s Camps
Repression in Xinjiang leaves tens of thousands of children without parents.
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Protesters in Hong Kong display a U.S. flag. Our Top Weekend Reads
Violent clashes in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China’s 70th anniversary, and obstacles to solving Canada’s opioid crisis.
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. China Has No Room for Dissenting Friends
Small nations know they can break from Washington—but not from Beijing.
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U.S. President George W. Bush after meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing. The Untold Story of How George W. Bush Lost China
The U.S.-China relationship started veering wildly off track 15 years ago—but Washington stumbled badly in its response.
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People watch a TV showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch at the Seoul Station in Seoul on Oct. 2. North Korean Missiles Just Keep Getting Better
Pyongyang is using a diplomatic impasse to improve its weapons technology.
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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters about the whistleblower in the White House Oval Office. Trump’s Whistleblower Attack ‘Undermines’ U.S. Global Accountability Push
The United States faces charges of double standards in its campaign to promote whistleblower protections at the U.N. and international organizations.
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Chinese soldiers stand in tanks in Beijing China’s Entertainment Future Is Guns, Trains, and Loving the Party
As censorship tightens, tales of technology and the military are mandatory.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a G-20 group photo. Xi Jinping Has Embraced Vladimir Putin—for Now
But the Russia-China flirtation may not last forever. As in the classic novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” the Chinese can be calculating about alliances.
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People hold signs reading “Don’t shoot our kids” as they gather in the Tsuen Wan area of Hong Kong on Oct. 2. It Is Time for the United States to Stand Up to China in Hong Kong
Tweets aren’t enough. Washington must make clear that it expects Beijing to live up to its commitments—and it will respond when China does not.
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A man watches a television news screen reporting latest developments on North Korea's missile launch as the screen shows file footage, at a railway station in Seoul on October 2, 2019. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) North Korea Tests New Ballistic Missile Ahead of Nuclear Talks
The launch is Pyongyang’s most provocative since before the Singapore summit.
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U.S. stock market indices plunged after weak manufacturing numbers and fears of a recession on Oct. 1. Rumblings of Recession Get Louder
With U.S. manufacturing taking its worst hit since the Great Recession, signs of a global economic downturn are everywhere.
