Every Wednesday, The Diplomat’s editorial team gazes out across the web to find our readers the best material involving all [...]
In an ordinary week, an agreement about the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands, a disputed area that has triggered a series [...]
An Xinhua editorial that also appeared in the U.S. edition of the China Daily asserts that the impending premiership of Japan’s Shinzo Abe would [...]
High-ranking diplomats from China and Japan met in Shanghai recently to hold consultations over the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands. Zhang [...]
Tensions over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands are still simmering – with fallout mounting daily. Despite talks between high-ranking diplomats from [...]
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently announced that Luo Zhaohui, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs, had made an [...]
Earlier, I wrote about why China believes that a past consensus existed with Japan over deferring resolution of the dispute [...]
The diplomatic stand off between China and Japan over the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands has entered its third week without [...]
This appears to be the silly season in East Asia. Various uninhabitable or barely inhabitable islands are again the object [...]
China this past week affirmed its status as one of the world’s three leading space powers by sending three astronauts, [...]