China is investing heavily in upgrading the 1,300km Karakoram Highway that connects it to Pakistan. Some see it as a dangerous debt trap, others as a...
A 2012 internal CCP circular known as "Document 9" provides key insights into how Xi Jinping views security and helps understand what drives his decisions.
Afumetto Retepu, Chairman of the Japan Uyghur Association, calls for democracies to take concrete action against China instead of merely "expressing concern."
What is behind the growing number of Japanese and other foreigners detained under China's counterespionage law? The author provides several case studies.
"We need concrete action. I urge countries involved with China to place their conscience and humanity over money" — Gulbahar Haitiwaji, former Uyghur detainee.
The G7, representing around 40% of the world's GDP, could be the most effective challenger to China's hegemony on multiple issues, including economic coercion.
A Hong Kong activist remembers the Tiananmen crackdown, explaining why he is moved by a sense of urgency to protect civic freedoms before it's too late.
South Korea and Japan both highlighted the promotion of freedom, peace and prosperity, based on liberal democratic values, terms not heard often enough in Asia.
"We cannot just let China act as it wants," warns Japanese Diet member Keiji Furuya, leader of a cross-parliamentary human rights group in Tokyo.
Some things are just too good to be true. Behind the glitz and glamor, Shein has allegedly built an empire on unethical practices and unlivable wages.
An Uyghur Japanese national urges consumers to stop buying goods tainted with Chinese forced labor and human rights abuses. How about Tokyo's solar panels?
Hastily enacted, the required installations ignore property owners’ rights as well as the oppression in the Uyghur region supplying the solar panels.
