By: Trisha Ray, Columnist Photo Credit: Mongabay The Mekong River, in particular the proliferation of Chinese dams along it, has become a source of conflict …
Category: East Asia
By: Farnaz Alimehri, Columnist Photo Credit: New Straits Times On February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the older half brother of the North Korean dictator Kim …
By: Annie Kowalewski, Columnist Photo Credit: The National Interest In the past several decades, China has made huge strides in modernizing its military technology, training, …
By: Shannon Mizzi, Columnist Photo Credit: Pacific Standard Terrorist attacks are becoming more frequent in China’s Xinjiang province, and the Chinese government is in desperate …
By: Trisha Ray, Columnist Photo Credit: CPEC Official Website The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), part of the “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) project, has been …
A child suffering from malnutrition rests in a bed in a hospital in Haeju on Sept. 30, 2011. Editor’s note: These images were taken on …
Photo Credit: ABC News By: Patrick Savage, Columnist It’s been over a quarter-of-a-century since the United States has faced an adversary that had a conventional …
Photo Credit: The Independent By: Annie Kowalewski, Columnist At the 85th session of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) General Assembly in November 2016, Chinese …
Photo Credit: Daily Beast By Jake Howry, Columnist For more than a year, the Japanese underworld has been engaged in the largest gang war the …
Photo Credit: South China Morning Post By: Michael Daly, Columnist In late October, China’s top leadership gathered in Beijing for the Sixth Plenum of the …