Archive
May 2018
What’s Behind China’s Mining at the Disputed Sino-Indian Border?
By Jansen Tham
Is China replicating its South China Sea strategy in regions disputed with India?
Japan’s Forced Sterilization Victims Hit Back With a Wave of Lawsuits
By Thisanka Siripala
The dark postwar population policy, modeled after Nazi Germany’s eugenics, resulted in systemic human rights abuses.
The Quad, Vietnam, and the Role of Democratic Values
By Tom Corben
What is the ‘Democratic Security Diamond’ without concern for its normative basis?
The Untold Story of Indonesian Deforestation
By Muhammad Beni Saputra
What’s happened to Indonesia’s forests?
Is China Really Targeting US Diplomats With a 'Sonic Attack'?
By Charlotte Gao
Is a U.S. diplomat the victim of a Chinese sonic attack -- or is this a spy gadget malfunction?
Online Learning in North Korea
By Tae-jun Kang
Is North Korea going through an online learning revolution?
The Plight of Pakistan's Journalists
By Muhammad Akbar Notezai
The free press is being suffocated in Pakistan.
Singapore Prepares for the AI Revolution
By Robert Kamei
While AI will destroy some types of jobs, it will also create new ones -- Singapore aims to be ready.
TPP’s Regulatory Capitalism and China’s Belt and Road Challenges
By Richard B. Stewart
The revived TPP 11 operates as a significant alternative to China's approach, embodied in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Despite International Pressure, 2 Journalists Remain Behind Bars in Myanmar
By Sarah Schulman
The trial of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo continues to drag on with no end in sight.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the US-North Korea Summit Cancellation
By Franz-Stefan Gady
The nixing of the U.S.-North Korea summit is one symptom of a larger malaise ailing U.S. foreign policy.
The New Silk Road Is Old: Why You Should Ignore Belt and Road Initiative Maps
By Krzysztof Iwanek
Looking for good publications on the Belt and Road Initiative? Ignore the ones with maps. (Well, maybe not all.)