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Duterte’s Unlikely Pivot to China

“America has lost,” President Duterte of the Philippines said to China’s top leaders in Beijing this October. As the leader

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Taiwan’s President Must Prove She Can Lead

On May 20th this year, I landed in Taiwan’s Taoyuan Airport, full of excitement because I was finally able to

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A Middle Ground for Snowden

Three years ago, Edward Snowden shocked the world with his revelation of NSA mass surveillance programs. Now he wants to

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A Case for Opening the Great Firewall

“Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world,” read the first email from China to Germany

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When News Speaks for the Party

“I don’t trust WeChat anymore,” a friend told me. “It’s terrifying.” She had recently updated the popular Chinese instant messaging

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The Art of Unapologizing

Political apologies are flawed, especially from the perspective of comfort women. About 20,000 women and girls were taken against their will

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Our renminbi. Your problem.

“If an alien landed on earth they would be puzzled by its international financial institutions as China is grossly underrepresented”

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