East Asia

Beijing should give consideration to re-starting a process of engaging the Dalai Lama in dialogue, one that might even result in his return to Tibet.

With some predicting China will import 79% of its oil by 2030, could domestic shale gas extraction help China meet its energy needs?

Simon Roughneen reports from Rome concerning the local Asian response to the election of a new pope.

Self-immolations by Tibetan monks have spiked with China’s leadership change. Beijing continues to ignore their message.

While reports warn of China’s rising military budget and lack of transparency, numbers and hyped headlines often cloud the bigger picture.

According to a Chinese public health expert, the nation’s poor air quality is worse than SARS.

China is developing its own drone technology — for its own military and for sale around the world.

The redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula would be a Cold War solution to a 21st century problem.

“The increasingly inverted structure of Japan’s population pyramid, with fewer young people than old people, means that it will be very difficult to generate the tax revenues necessary to pay for the healthcare needs of the elderly. “

There are many reasons why China and Japan won’t go to war. Now is the time to explore how to actively prevent it.

Park enters office in South Korea facing a daunting array of domestic and foreign policy challenges. She may very well prove up to the task.

Although sharing many of the same problems as Arab societies, the Arab Spring never arrived in Beijing. Why?