May 02, 2015
The rapid rise of China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) should be a wakeup call for the United States, and requires a well thought out response.
May 02, 2015
Over the past few weeks, media reports have suggested that Japan and the United States are considering having the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and US milita
May 01, 2015
In an April 11 article in The Diplomat, University of Macau Assistant Professor Dingding Chen asserts five main reasons why the rest of the world should “relax
May 01, 2015
If China’s stocks are partying at the punch bowl, then its banks are nervously jangling the car keys in the kitchen. Share prices of the big lenders have lagge
May 01, 2015
Earlier this year, StandWithUs (SWU), a pro-Israeli American advocacy group that coordinates its activities closely with the Israeli government, finally unveile
Apr 30, 2015
The most obvious way to read Apple’s latest quarterly earnings report — which revealed that iPhone sales in China had surpassed those in the U.S. for the firs
Apr 30, 2015
Part II: The Ministry of Public Security as Driver of Cyber Policy The first post in this series highlighted shortcomings in the national citizens’ database in
Apr 30, 2015
In China, it’s hard to find a city that has not built ambitious new districts on its rural periphery. But overbuilding has led to ghost towns: Towering rows of
Apr 30, 2015
Governments around the world are rushing humanitarian supplies to Nepal after Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed at least 4,400 people and left tens of
Apr 30, 2015
No, America isn’t opposed to the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. News reports and editorials to that effect – which have been legion in rece