Region
East Asia
The People's Republic of the Disappeared
By Michael Caster
From black jails to residential surveillance, Beijing has been trying to normalize enforced disappearances for a decade.
After the Call: Does Taiwan Have a Plan for the Trump Years?
By Ankit Panda
What is Taiwan looking for from Donald Trump?
The Dalai Lama in Mongolia: 'Tournament of Shadows' Reborn
By M.A. Aldrich
Buddhism in Mongolia has always had a strong connection to geopolitics.
China's Approach to the Middle East Looks Familiar
By Massoud Hayoun
Despite repudiating American foreign policy, China now borrows heavily from U.S.-style Middle Eastern diplomacy.
Khrushchev’s Fate and China’s Future
By Joseph Torigian
What Xi Jinping can learn from Khrushchev's struggles with reform in the Soviet Union.
William Mesny: The Mercenary Mandarin
By David Leffman
An Englishman's rise (and fall) in Qing-dynasty China.
Xi's 'China Dream' Comes to Coal Country
By Francois Dubé
Frustration with corrupt and inept local authorities in Shanxi fuels support for Xi Jinping’s push to be core leader.
Evaluating China's Economy
By Fatima-Zohra Er-Rafia
Can China keep up its growth and deliver on its "harmony" pact with the Chinese people?
China and Germany: The Honeymoon Is Over
By Klaus Larres
A visit to China by Germany's economics minister highlighted a blunter approach to bilateral relations.
Increasing China's Food Supply – With Drones
By Joshua Bateman
China's rapidly growing UAV industry is eyeing a new sector: agriculture.
What Will Donald Trump’s Asia Policy Look Like?
By Prashanth Parameswaran
A closer look at what America’s incoming president might do.
South Korea's Most Bizarre Corruption Scandal Yet
By Robert E. Kelly
The South Korean presidential scandal is unique for its sheer weirdness.