Asia

When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the G-20 summit in June 2019, there are hopes that they ...

Each year since its founding in 2002, high-ranking officials of Asian-Pacific states gather for what is billed as the area’s ...

China has long occupied a special place in the American imagination.  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Americans ...

In January 2018, the Chinese Communist Party put forward a Central Committee Opinion developing the idea for creating a Chinese ...

Once again, Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer was the focus of heated debate in ...

In December 1999, Indian Airlines flight 1C-814 was hijacked shortly after taking off from Kathmandu, Nepal, en route to New Delhi. After several stops, the hijackers flew the aircraft to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where they threatened to kill the hostages...

As leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s track record in international relations has been virtually unprecedented. On April 25, he met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok, the Russian port city close to North Korea. He’s met with...

North Korea moved back into the headlines last week when its leader, Kim Jong-un, travelled to Vladivostok to meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. At the same time, the possibility of a third Kim-Trump meeting keeps simmering in Washington—for the...

The death toll from the Easter Sunday bombings in and near Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, has exceeded 300 and keeps rising. In the meanwhile, the suicide bombers have at least partially accomplished one of their principal goals:...