Dec 20, 2014

China wants to eliminate the use of foreign technology in key sectors by 2020, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the campaign. The goal

Dec 20, 2014

I’ve written before that U.S.-China military relations have improved markedly in the past two years, even as the overall relationship has suffered ups and down

Dec 19, 2014

As Sheila Smith of the Council of Foreign Relations noted this week, the LDP victory in Sunday’s election likely means another four years in office for current

Dec 19, 2014

The vagaries of democracy being what they are, it was almost inevitable that President Ma Ying-jeou’s honeymoon with Beijing would come to an end at some point

Dec 18, 2014

The Lima Climate Change Conference closed with a deal this week – just barely. The difficulty of those negotiations, which ended up lasting two days longer tha

Dec 18, 2014

The Lima Climate Change Conference (COP20), held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluded in the earl

Dec 17, 2014

A few years ago I was told by a Chinese government official in Beijing that the usual precedent for handover of power from one generation of leaders to the next

Dec 17, 2014

Northeast Asian politics is an intriguing but bitter pot of jambalaya for scholars, journalists, and pundits in and across the region. Problems, concerns, dispu

Dec 13, 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama recently commented on Chinese president Xi Jinping, saying that he was impressed by Xi’s quick consolidation of power. Obama also r

Dec 13, 2014

On Wednesday, a Chinese court sentenced Liu Tienan, formerly the deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, to life in prison for taking alm