COVID-19 has shown us pandemics are a national security issue. A new system with leadership needs to be in place to prevent a repeat of Japan’s...
Throughout Japan, the ever-popular festivals and summer traditions have continued to be limited in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. This is exactly the time...
(Last of Two Parts) Part 1: Growth Disrupted: A Chastened China Girds for Conflict Reading between the lines of Xi Jinping’s recent...
(First of Two Parts) Part 2: In Xi Jinping’s Chastened China, an Emerging Insurgency Within the Party The regime of Xi Jinping underperformed when...
In a time of COVID-19, when many feel helpless towards the invisible enemy, it can be tempting to just throw caution to the winds....
Although the weather is still chilly, my friends drove away, one after another, to their lakeside vacation homes in another prefecture, their station wagons loaded...
In China, where infections from the respiratory-like ailment caused by the novel coronavirus continue to spread, moves have emerged to bring the Chinese government to task...
The Chinese government has revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal correspondents in Beijing, effectively expelling them from the country. The move, which...
“Long live the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China!” These words of former Chairman Mao Zedong are often found on the walls of government...