List of East Asia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Thoughts on the Hague Tribunal’s South China Sea Ruling
The hard work starts now.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After South China Sea Ruling, China Censors Online Calls for War
Beijing has fanned the flames of nationalism. Now it’s struggling to contain it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rare-Earth Market
By monopolizing the mining of rare-earth metals, China could dictate the future of high-tech.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Staredown in South China Sea, Did Russia Hit its Own Chopper?
North Korea Goes Silent; One Retired General Refuses to Play Politics; and Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hague Court Strikes Down Beijing’s South China Sea Claims
In a victory for the Philippines, an international tribunal ruled China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea are illegal, setting the stage for more tension in one of the world’s flashpoints.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Bizarre Stereotypes of the United States
Chinese web users wonder why Americans don't eat pigs' feet, and why men there are so well-endowed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 North Korea Just Cut Its Last Diplomatic Channel to the U.S.
Shortly after North Korea threatened a “physical response” to the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea on Monday, Pyongyang announced another move likely to ratchet up tensions with the United States: severing its only diplomatic link with Washington at the United Nations in New York.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless
The family of Cambodian dictator Hun Sen sits on at least $200 million. But it might not save them from populist anger.
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SANSHA, CHINA - JULY 24: (CHINA OUT) Soldiers raise the national flag during the Sansha city establishment ceremony in front of the city government's main building on July 24, 2012 in Sansha, China. The Sansha city on Yongxing island, a part of the Xisha Islands, will administer the Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha islands and the surrounding waters in the South China Sea. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) Why China Says No to the Arbitration on the South China Sea
Beijing will ignore the upcoming ruling — and with good reason.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Indonesia Afford a Fish War With China?
Jakarta needs Beijing’s billions, but it’s fed up with Chinese fishing boats trawling its waters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beijing Establishes a D.C. Think Tank, and No One Notices
China is trying, and mostly failing, to build U.S. support for its claims in the South China Sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Sanctions Kim Jong Un For First Time for Human Rights Abuses
For the first time, the United States slapped economic sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for what U.S. officials called “notorious abuses of human rights.” The move is expected to elicit an angry reaction from the nuclear-armed country and comes just days after the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, called on countries to enforce sanctions against the Hermit Kingdom after its latest ballistic missile test.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen
There will be no bloc of “emerging economies” rising up to challenge the Western order. But what comes next may be more chaotic and dangerous.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Big Takeover Battle
The fight over real estate giant Vanke has observers asking what 'Chinese capitalism' actually means.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beijing Takes its South China Sea PR Campaign to Washington
As China braces for a ruling from an international court on its dispute with the Philippines, a former top Chinese diplomat delivers a blunt message.
