East Asia

Continental Drift

Is Australia breaking with the United States over the pivot to Asia?

BY BATES GILL | NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We Did Not Hype the Nuclear Threat

The U.S.-China Commission responds to Tom Collina.

BY DENNIS C. SHEA , WILLIAM A. REINSCH | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Can You Save Diplomacy From Itself?

Carne Ross's quixotic crusade to help emerging nations get their seat at the table.

BY CRISTINA ODONE | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Photos from the first North American retrospective of China's most famous dissident artist, Ai Weiwei.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

FP's Global Thinkers weigh in on the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.

DECEMBER 2012

A Change Is Gonna Come

Chen Guangcheng on freedom, violence, and the possibility of a revolution in China.

INTERVIEW BY ISAAC STONE FISH | DECEMBER 2012

The 'Grexits' of 2013

The four geopolitical buzzwords that could be just around the corner.

BY IAN BREMMER | DECEMBER 2012

Kim Jong Un's Baby Mama

Ri Sol Ju, North Korea's enigmatic new first lady, is already turning heads and making headlines.

BY MICHAEL MADDEN | NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Five Myths about the Chinese Internet

The Great Firewall is neither great, nor a firewall. Discuss.

BY EVELINE CHAO | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Re-Pivot

Forget Asia. It's time for Obama to put his focus back on the Middle East.

BY MARTIN INDYK | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Getting Rebalancing Right

Four key issues that will define President Obama's second-term pivot to Asia.

BY MICHELE A. FLOURNOY, ZIAD HAIDER | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The Key to Bringing Democracy to China

It's naked self-interest, stupid.

BY YASHENG HUANG | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Opportunity Lost?

Inside China's leadership transition.

BY CHENG LI | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Unsolicited Advice

Vladimir Putin's secret (fake) letter of congratulations to Xi Jinping.

BY SIMON SHUSTER | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Apocalypse Mao

China's Xi Jinping faces a host of challenges: a slowing economy, stagnating political reform. But the country's black skies and red rivers ought to be his top priority.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Human Rights Now

Six ways China's new leader could be the reformer the Chinese have been waiting for.

BY SOPHIE RICHARDSON | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The World Is Not Enough

Why does the planet's No. 1 spy never go to the really dangerous places?

BY FRANK JACOBS | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

National Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Meet He Di, the insider trying to save the Chinese Communist Party from itself.

BY JOHN GARNAUT | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Party Congress Diary, Day 7

What to watch for as China picks its new leaders.

BY KATHLEEN E. MCLAUGHLIN | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Sea Change

The Navy pivots to Asia.

BY ADMIRAL JONATHAN GREENERT | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Xi's Got Issues

China's new leader has 100 days to make his mark. Ready, set, go.

BY GEOFF DYER | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Red Balloon

Is Congress inflating the China threat?

BY TOM Z. COLLINA | NOVEMBER 13, 2012

What Do Rural Chinese Villagers Think About Their New Bosses?

As it turns out, not much.

BY TREFOR MOSS | NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Men in Black

Inside the fashion of Chinese politics.

BY NELS FRYE | NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Turning Japanese

Is this the end of the South Korean miracle?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | NOVEMBER 12, 2012

China's Other Transition

What we still don't know about the Chinese military.

BY DEAN CHENG | NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Kafka in Beijing

A tale of an alleged rape and one woman's futile quest for justice in modern China.

BY JOHN GARNAUT, SANGHEE LIU | NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The Corruption Pandemic

Why corruption is set to become one of the defining political issues of the 21st century.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The Hu Era, in Pictures

In 10 years under Hu Jintao, China has changed to an extent unprecedented in history.

BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Nate Silver vs. Kim Jong Un

Why we can't figure out what North Korea will do next.

BY AMY B. ZEGART | NOVEMBER 7, 2012