As Taiwan’s January presidential election approaches, Beijing is stepping up its effort to undermine incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and boost the opposition Kuomintang’s candidate Han Kuo-yu, who is generally viewed...

China’s intense anticorruption campaign has generated a flood of fugitives who have fled abroad and Beijing in turn has launched a global drive to seek their return, leading to the arrest of more than 5,000 suspects...

This week marks the beginning of the fifth straight month of protests in Hong Kong. A million-person march on June 9 was focused on opposing the government’s extradition bill and that goal was finally achieved on...

The People’s Republic of China celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding this week with fireworks, a huge parade showing off its latest military hardware and a vast outpouring of facts and figures to show the...

In the run-up to Taiwan’s January presidential election, China is taking economic, political, military and diplomatic steps in an effort to prevent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) from winning a second term....

More than three decades ago when China set up a special committee to draft Hong Kong’s Basic Law, its attitude toward the business elite was unmistakable, as 12 of the 23 Hong Kong members that it...

Twenty-two years ago, when Hong Kong became part of China, the former British colony’s relationship with Taiwan became part of China’s cross-straits relationship. Thus, when the pro-independence politician Chen Shui-bian became president of Taiwan in 2000,...

Five years ago, in May 2014, President Xi Jinping took the United States aback when, at a regional conference held in Shanghai, he proposed the idea of “Asia for Asians” where security matters were concerned. Calling...

As world attention focused on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, India all of a sudden moved to strip the special region of Jammu and Kashmir of the autonomy guaranteed to it in India’s constitution since independence...

For some time now, China has been blaming “black hands” working for “foreign forces” for the massive anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong, now in their third month. More recently, Chinese officials have been openly saying that...

As the anti-extradition protests – ostensibly directed at the Hong Kong administration but very much aimed also at the Chinese government — extend into their third month, repercussions are being felt around the world, with Hong...

China and Russia conducted their first-ever joint air patrol last week by sending bombers along the South Korean coast, intruding into its air defense identification zone as well as that of Japan, with Seoul charging that...

The Hong Kong administration is facing a deepening governance crisis as mass protests continue over the extradition issue and violence escalates. While the bill allowing extradition to mainland China has been suspended, the government refuses to...

China’s leader Xi Jinping appears to be in an unassailable position, with his name and his “thought” having been enshrined in the Communist Party constitution in October 2017 and the state constitution in 2018. Term limits...

Talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe in Osaka before the G20 summit illustrate the much improved relationship between the two countries, with both sides talking about creating “a new era” in...

In a virtual replay of events that took place seven months ago, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of a G20 summit on Saturday and agreed to resume negotiations on the trade dispute...

As the orange and white bus closed its doors at Terminal 2 of Narita International Airport, the passengers settled down for a 100-minute drive to their various hotels while, outside, three employees of the bus company,...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s announcement on Saturday suspending controversial extradition legislation after a secret meeting with a top Chinese official wasn’t enough to pacify an angry population. Demonstrators returned to the streets on Sunday...

Thirty years ago this month, the world witnessed a horrifying sight as armed Chinese troops were ordered to crush peaceful Chinese protesters asking for reforms, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as well as cities across the...

Hong Kong has been getting an inordinate amount of global attention these days, as is perhaps appropriate for a place that likes to call itself “Asia’s world city”. But it isn’t the kind of publicity most...