Special Reports
[Speaking Out] Southern Mongolians Facing Humanitarian Crisis Seek Engagement With Japan
China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, aka Southern Mongolia, has been greatly shaken. Local Mongols as a whole, incl
Culture
Dripping with Irony and Yet Lyrical: How Cartoonist Taco Lin’s Satire is Very Much Like Taiwan
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan in late 2019 has thrown the world into a frenzy, […]
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Representative Sonam Frasi: ‘Tibet’s Never Been Part of China. That’s Our Reality.’
Human rights in Asia, highlighted in the 2019 coverage of the treatment of Uighurs and democracy protests in Hong [&he
Politics & Security
Military Ties with Taiwan Urgently Needed — Or Tokyo Would Pay
Taiwan’s defense is Japan’s defense. Look at a map and it’s hard to think otherwise. And Beijing would agree. The [&he
Culture
[Speaking Out] Japan’s Education Ministry Should Be More Transparent in Screening Textbooks
On December 25, 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Education disapproved Jiyusha Publishing’s junior high school history t
Politics & Security
To Keep China at Bay, Int’l Community Must Shore Up Taiwan’s Democracy and Economy
Now that President Tsai Ing-wen was safely re-elected for a second term, a new battle has begun. Unlike the […]
Politics & Security
Formidable Challenges Await Taiwan’s Re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen
The election results show that Taiwanese people are committed to upholding democratic values demonstrated and that Taiwa
Politics & Security
Closer Japan-Taiwan Ties Needed for A Free and Open Indo-Pacific
In the two years since President Donald Trump declared his vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific, the United [&helli
Books
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Park Statue Politics’ by Thomas J. Ward and William D. Lay
There has been a troubling lack of understanding of the comfort women issue. Indeed, given the refusal in many [&helli
Politics & Security
Chinese Communist Party Influence Operations are Ideological Competition
Since its creation in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made it its primary objective to seize and […
Books
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada’ by Jonathan Manthorpe
Author Jonathan Manthorpe, a Canadian citizen with decades of residence in Asia as a foreign correspondent, has chos
Politics & Security
When the World Wasn’t Looking, China Built the ‘Perfect Dictatorship’
China, which in 2018 celebrated the 40th anniversary of the “reform and opening up” program launched by Deng Xiaoping,