Chinese Passports Stir Up Territorial Disputes
China delivered a rousing jolt to its various border disputes last week with the introduction of a controversial new passport design. Visa pages in the passports incorporate a map—shown in an annotated...
View ArticleU.S. Will Not Endorse China Passport Map
A new passport design incorporating a controversial map of China has met a range of responses from neighbouring countries over the last week. The map’s apparent purpose is to force neighbours to...
View ArticleChina: The Bully With an Image Problem
China’s brinksmanship with Japan in the Diaoyu Islands crisis, which took an elevated turn last week, reflects a broader assertiveness over territorial issues that has put the PRC at odds with a number...
View ArticleChina Unveils Plans for Streamlined Government
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years,...
View ArticleChina White Paper Criticizes U.S. Asia Pivot
Just days after U.S. secretary of state John Kerry wrapped up his first official visit to Beijing, China’s defense ministry accused the U.S. of exacerbating tensions in the Asia-Pacific by increasing...
View ArticleChina Plans New Generation of Aircraft Carriers
On Monday last week, The Diplomat’s Harry Kazianis wrote that the value of China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier remains, for now, mostly symbolic: As our own Naval Diplomat noted, several months back:...
View ArticleThe Highs and Lows of China’s High Rollers
Al Jazeera’s Witness this week features a documentary about gambling addicts in Hong Kong. High/Low follows two Hong Kong locals who have lost money, pride, and the trust of loved ones around them....
View ArticleDoes China Have a Good Case in Territorial Disputes?
Last week, by flying bombers near Japanese territory ahead of the first anniversary of Japan’s controversial “purchase” of the disputed Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands, China again portrayed itself as a bully...
View ArticleChina-India Deal Aims to Ease Himalayan Tension
The diplomatic scuffle and military face-off that came when Chinese soldiers allegedly set up camp in northern India earlier this year brought a long running territorial dispute between the two...
View ArticleA Game of Shark and Minnow
The New York Times employs a digital story-telling format to provide an in-depth look at the territorial disputes currently raging between China, the Philippines and other neighboring countries over...
View ArticleStorm Hits China; Red Cross Pledges Aid to Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan, which has devastated the Philippines, has also hit southern China and eight people are reported dead so far. From AP: Typhoon Haiyan, which slammed into the Philippines last Friday as...
View ArticleMaking Sense of China’s Meager Typhoon Aid
A ninefold increase in Chinese aid to the typhoon-struck Philippines has failed to quell criticism that, at $1.84 million, China’s contribution still lags well behind those of the U.S., Japan,...
View ArticleChina to Send Rescue Teams to Philippines
The Associated Press reports that China announced on Sunday that it would send rescue and medical teams to the “hardest hit areas” of the Philippines “should conditions permit,” ”a belated offer coming...
View ArticleTyphoon Haiyan Through the Lens of China’s 2008 Quake
At the New York Times, Austin Ramzy compares China’s 2008 Wenchuan earthquake with the recent typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines, with a look at the nature of the disasters and the states’ role in...
View ArticleTensions Rise as Liaoning Anchors in South China Sea
With international tensions mounting over China’s newly declared Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea, the South China Morning Post reports that the Liaoning, China’s premier...
View ArticleChina’s Friendly Foreign Policy
China reacted strongly on Friday to a Japanese parliamentary resolution condemning its new air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea, a topic at the forefront of U.S. Vice...
View ArticleU.S. Weighs In on South and East China Sea Disputes
Since the Xi administration came to power in 2012, China has become more assertive about longstanding territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, regularly showing off the extent of the...
View ArticleMaritime Dispute on Display in the Sea and at The Hague
Just after the Philippines submitted an arbitration case to the United Nations in effort to resolve long-running territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea, a Philippine vessel managed to...
View ArticleUS Warns China Against Crimea-Style Action in Asia
Following Crimea’s annexation by Russia and China’s relative silence regarding Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, the US voiced its position on Thursday warning China to refrain from using Crimea-style...
View ArticleU.S. and China Argue Over Contested Islands
Over the past 18 months, China has become increasingly assertive regarding longstanding territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, regularly putting the PLA’s naval strength on display as...
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