China’s state media chose a strange time to announce the indictment of former security czar Zhou Yongkang: just after midnight in Beijing last Friday night. Zh

In late July, China’s anti-corruption crackdown officially targeted the highest-ranking Chinese Communist Party member ever: Zhou Yongkang, formerly a Politbur

That empty expression President Xi Jinping of China made when he shook hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan was his blandest face of the entire APEC su

A chill has gripped Hong Kong. The Occupy Central movement, which advocated for open nomination rights in the 2017 election for chief executive, the city’s hea

Forget the South China Sea. The results of Taiwan’s local elections last week, still reverberating in Beijing, are more likely than not to propel Taiwan’s asc

Taiwan’s governing Kuomintang Party (KMT) suffered a brutal defeat in just-completed elections for local offices. Indeed, the extent of the KMT’s rout made th

Thursday marked the 32nd anniversary of China’s current constitution. In previous years, the day passed with little fanfare, but not in 2014. On December 4, Ch

The peaceful protesters occupying the streets of Hong Kong for more than two months have been surprisingly persistent in their pursuit of genuine universal suff

China’s reemergence as a wealthy and powerful nation is a fact. In recent decades its rise has been unprecedented, moving from the tenth-largest economy in 199

What’s in a Chinese share price? Text books say it should be a function of risk-free rates, equity risk premiums and expectations of company earnings. In reali