Taiwan and the South China Sea are the likeliest points of conflict — but conflict is not an option.
Biden’s Top Foreign Policy Challenge: Avoiding a Cold War with China
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What Explains COVID’s East-West Divide?
Asia has done a much better job of containing the pandemic. Do values have anything to do with it?
A Principled China Policy
How to use international law to shape a new approach to China.
US-China Trade War: Stepping Away from the Brink
Trump’s trade war with China could quickly morph into a shooting war.
Japan and South Korea: A New Beginning?
Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on the “comfort women” issue that has made a lot of people uncomfortable.
Typhoons and Tigers: Why Taiwan Has Outpaced the Philippines
If it weren’t for decades of Western-backed political and economic repression, the Philippines might have joined the Asian Tigers years ago.
Can China Win Back Hong Kong?
Relations between Hong Kong and mainland China have fallen to some of their greatest depths since the city’s handover to Beijing.
China’s Struggle over Air and Sea
China has grown more willing to assert historical claims to its sphere of influence, but it would be a mistake to regard this as “aggression” that requires an American response.
Review: Why Taiwan Matters
Taiwan, according to Shelley Rigger, is a small and beautiful island, but also a global powerhouse. A professor at Davidson College, Rigger has been living and visiting Taiwan for nearly three decades. Her new book, Why Taiwan Matters, reveals her extensive knowledge of the history of the island and its relationship to mainland China.
Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
Washington, which has focused for years on North Korea’s small but developing nuclear arsenal, has barely been paying attention to the larger developments in Asia. Nor will Asia’s looming transformation be a hot topic in our own presidential election next year. We’ll be arguing about jobs, health care, and whether the president is a socialist or his Republican challenger a nutcase. Aside from some ritual China-bashing, Asia will merit little mention.