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Could Hong Kong students destabilize China?
As many as 13,000 college students in Hong Kong have reportedly started to stage a week-long sit-in to protest against China's failure to reform its election policies.
Chinese authorities now fear that the spirit of these protests will bring instability to mainland China.
What China wants
As China becomes, again, the world's largest economy, it wants the respect it enjoyed in centuries past. But it does not know how to achieve or deserve it
Japanese SMEs now favor Philippines over Thailand
THE Tokyo branch of the Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) said the political situation in Thailand has prompted some Japanese businesses to transfer their offices in Thailand to the Philippines.
Metrobank Tokyo Manager Takeshi Odaka said there are some serious concerns in Thailand that made some Japanese businessmen relocate their offices or factories from Thailand to the Philippines.
Chinese civil society
The Economist magazine has two excellent articles on the rise of civil society in China.
International media face growing restrictions in China
Conditions for foreign journalists working in China have gone from bad to worse over the past year, with the Chinese authorities increasingly seeking to influence coverage by intimidating reporters and their interview subjects, barring journalists from large portions of the country or by withholding visas and blocking the websites of overseas news outlets, according to a report issued on Friday by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China.
Japan's extreme right wing
Fifteen of the 19 members in Japan's new cabinet belong to Nippon Kaigi, the “Japan Conference,” a nationalistic right-wing group that was all but unknown until recently, writes the New York Times.
China's murky capitalism
Many China watchers will tell you about the rise of the new private sector in China. But the case of Alibaba highlights the often murky ties between elite Communist Party families and the private sector.
Social Media Aids Flood Victims in Kashmir
The Indian government has been using social media to help flood victims in Kashmir.
China's Environmental Awakening
Looking back years from now, 2013 could be regarded as a tipping point, the year China as a nation became environmentally engaged, argues Daniel K. Gardner.
India's Narendra Modi
The Economist of May 24 has an excellent set of articles on India's new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
Helping China's doves
China is on the verge of destroying its geopolitical miracle.
But neither the country, nor the government, is monolithic. There are both hawks and doves in the Chinese establishment. The West should help the doves, writes Kishore Mahbubani.
Chinese economy not out of the woods
CHINA'S growth might have picked up slightly in the second quarter as a burst of government stimulus kicked in, but the world's second-largest economy is not out of the woods just yet, writes the Straits Times.
Europe’s pivot to Asia
In recent years, the US and Australia have both made very public declarations of their focus on Asia, with President Barack Obama’s pledge to become a ‘Pacific power’ and thelocal release of the Australia in the Asian Century white paper. However, behind the headlines, a more subtle shift towards the east has been emerging in Europe.
Shadow of War Darkens Vietnam/China Relations
Shadow of Brutal ’79 War Darkens Vietnam’s View of China Relations, writes the New York Times.
Chinese Labor Camp Gets a New Lease on Life
An Infamous Chinese Labor Camp Gets a New Lease on Life, writes the Epoch Times.
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