East Asia

Nationalists are seeking leverage for the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute. Japan shouldn’t play into their hands.

Demand for food is set to surge within the region. Can productivity growth keep pace?

More than half of China’s massive population live in cities. With hundreds of millions more coming in the next 15-20 years, will they have a place to live?

A story in photos: The recent Han Kuang series of exercises was a serious display of Taiwan’s military power.

Although a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the once noble Kaesong experiment has long been a failure.

Chinese leadership has hinted at greater economic reforms in store, with freewheeling Guangdong province as the model.

Last year’s annual report on Chinese military developments was widely criticized. What does the 2013 version offer?

“China’s rise is more likely a statistical fiction, cooked up by the Chinese ruling elites to aggrandize their power and glory.”

The pivot is a smart policy which is more nuanced than most people realize. But its China blind spot could be its undoing.

It remains in Beijing’s self-interest to provide aid to Pyongyang. The alternatives, like a North Korean collapse, could be far worse.

By any measure Julia Gillard’s trip to Beijing was a success. However, her most visionary goal remains unfulfilled.

Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours on what it’s really like to visit North Korea.