East Asia

The South Korean military said a person – now believed to be a North Korean who had defected in 2020 – crawled over a barbed-wire fence to cross into North Korea.

Insights from Karen-Anna Eggen.

Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in the former British colony has led to the closure of independent news outlets and the removal of monuments to dissent.

Mostly importantly, China must effectively manage deteriorating China-U.S. relations.

The real estate downturn and inflation will cause headaches in the new year, while the emphasis on common prosperity continues.

It is at the intersection of commercial and hard-security interests that Australia’s relationships with Japan and South Korea are finding their increasing health.

The long tradition of scholarship on Indo-Chinese relations is finally encountering growing interest in the subject.

The Taiwanese government has not paid sufficient consideration to migrant workers.

Governments in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea routinely detain migrants in closed custodial institutions.

The pearl is a symbol of all of China’s economic factors combined. 

The spread of the new Omicron variant is on the rise and authorities are bracing for a worst case scenario.

A year into the job as director of the top party-affiliated think tank, Jiang Jinquan is appearing more frequently to boldly champion Xi’s positions on ideology, party governance and unity.