China

Will China Ever Be No. 1?

If you want to know the answer, ask Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew.

BY GRAHAM ALLISON, ROBERT D. BLACKWILL | FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Don't Fear the Migrants

What America really needs to worry about is when they stop coming.

BY FRANK JACOBS | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Lips and Teeth

It’s time for China to get tough with North Korea.

BY SHEN DINGLI | FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The Laughingstock Next Door

How the Chinese are using Kim Jong Un's antics to mock their own leaders.

BY HELEN GAO | FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Cyber-Gang Warfare

State-sponsored militias are coming to a server near you.

BY RICHARD B. ANDRES | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The Chinese Union

Could China and Hong Kong create a common currency?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Westward Ho!

As America pivots east, China marches in the other direction.

BY YUN SUN | FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Why the world needs better data.

BY URI DADUSH | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

China and Japan's Wikipedia War

How a showdown over a group of remote islands in the East China Sea is heating up online.

BY PETE HUNT | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The People's Republic of Hacking

China’s campaign of cyber attacks has reached epidemic proportions. Can anything be done to stop it?

BY ADAM SEGAL | JANUARY 31, 2013

Saying UnSorry

Will Japan's new prime minister really take back his country's apology for World War II?

BY ROBERT WHITING | JANUARY 30, 2013

A Maritime Balkans of the 21st Century?

East Asia is a tinderbox on water.

BY KEVIN RUDD | JANUARY 30, 2013

The League of Authoritarian Gentlemen

It used to be that it was mainly the liberal democracies who banded together in defense of their values. No longer.

BY ALEXANDER COOLEY | JANUARY 30, 2013

Over the Horizon

Five unlikely but extremely destabilizing global crises that Obama must prepare for now.

BY MARTIN INDYK | JANUARY 18, 2013

Second-Term Heat

What will be the legacy of Obama's next four years?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 18, 2013

What I Learned from Gérard Depardieu

The French actor's case is the exception that proves the rule: Citizenship still matters.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 16, 2013

Has China Lost Myanmar?

As Myanmar’s messy democracy turns to the West, Beijing debates stirring up ethnic tensions to rile the government and maintain its leverage.

BY YUN SUN | JANUARY 15, 2013

Rising Sun

What if Japan actually gets its economic act together?

BY ROBERT DUJARRIC | JANUARY 14, 2013

China's Press Freedom Goes South

Will Southern Weekly's protest against censorship change the face of journalism in China?

BY ANNIE ZHANG | JANUARY 11, 2013

Don't Engage Kim Jong Un -- Bankrupt Him

It's time to play hardball with North Korea's new leader.

BY JOSHUA STANTON, SUNG-YOON LEE | JANUARY 9, 2013

Under Cover

Why are we giving visas to Chinese spies?

BY DANA ROHRABACHER | JANUARY 8, 2013

Civil Savant

How Andrew Marshall has shaped our world.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JANUARY 7, 2013

Reinventing China, Again

China made it big by saving money. Now it needs to spend it.

BY ROBYN MEREDITH | JANUARY 7, 2013

Chuck Hagel's Biggest Task

Obama's new defense secretary will first and foremost need to get the Asia pivot right.

BY JAMES HOLMES | JANUARY 7, 2013

Eve of Disaster

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013

The Year in Unfreedom

An encouraging number of the world's people voted in 2012. But voting does not a democracy make.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 4, 2013

Four Surprises That Could Rock Asia in 2013

Are we paying attention to the wrong crises?

BY MICHAEL MAZZA | JANUARY 3, 2013

Is This Any Way to Treat Your Banker?

China recoils in horror at America's fiscal dysfunction.

BY SHEN DINGLI | JANUARY 2, 2013

Getting Down to Business

The bad news is Washington hasn't seen the last of its bickering, dithering, and gridlock. The good news is Obama can change that in his first 100 days. 

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Disappeared

Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?

BY FRANK DIKÖTTER | JANUARY 2, 2013