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Chinese investment aid to Sri Lanka has been a major success—for China
Colombo, Sri Lanka Every day as dusk falls on Colombo, residents flock to Galle Face Green, a vast esplanade facing the beach and Indian Ocean beyond. Snack sellers serve refreshments from rickety...
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Hong Kong’s cardinal on a Vatican-China deal: “It is clear which path the...
An article by Hong Kong’s cardinal John Tong is reviving speculation that China and the Vatican will re-establish relations, despite a fundamental disagreement between the two sides over Catholic...
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Asia’s disturbing embrace of “Nazi chic” is prompting a nonprofit to teach...
It’s a dismaying yet recurring phenomenon that takes place in disparate Asian countries: young people, not known for sympathizing with far-right groups, playing with Nazi imagery in highly public...
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Hong Kong’s leadership hopefuls want to win hearts and minds in an election...
Hong Kong “Many people are watching this tonight on Facebook. Do you know that you have angry emojis up to your nose?” That was one of many zingers delivered at a rare televised debate by former Hong...
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Dead dictators are attracting puzzled selfie-takers at Hong Kong’s Art Basel
They lie in state in plexiglass coffins–life-size sculptures of Russia’s Lenin, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung, China’s Mao Zedong, and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh, four very dead communist revolutionaries, most...
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If you think the US electoral college isn’t democratic, just consider Hong...
Following five years of deep political strife under chief executive Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s new leader will be chosen on March 26 in a head-spinning exercise in indirect voting. The vote is...
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A Warhol portrait of Mao is going up for auction on Chinese soil
When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 it wasn’t just a seminal point for US-China diplomatic relations, it was also a turning point for pop art’s most important artist. A year after Nixon’s visit,...
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At 93, Henry Kissinger is still doing deals and courting controversy in China
Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger may be in his nineties, but he’s continuing to play a key, globe-spanning role in one of the most substantive foreign policy negotiations of the US presidency...
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Girls have had it tough in China for nearly 3,000 years
As women across the world fight for recognition of their rights and equal representation, a recent archaeological discovery in the north of China shows why undoing discrimination is such an uphill...
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Europe has a solution to its refugee arrivals: Stop the sale of rubber dinghies
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who has turned to Europe’s refugee crisis in his latest works, uses one motif again and again: the rubber dinghy. In March in the Czech Republic, he showcased an enormous...
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A German imperialist paved the way for China to revive the “Silk Road”
As people from Europe and Asia moved back-and-forth through the centuries on the countless paths, valleys and mountain crossings of central Asia, they brought with them world religions like Buddhism,...
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A controversial museum is forcing Italy to talk about its fascist past
Predappio, Italy The shops that line the main street of Predappio, a small town in Italy’s Sangiovese countryside, seem innocent enough—the biggest one is simply called “Predappio Souvenirs.” But it’s...
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Archaeologists have found proof that an ancient Chinese dynasty used foreign...
New archaeological techniques capable of analyzing the diet of our ancestors by studying the isotope composition of their bone mass are offering fresh insights into the dynamics of ancient societies....
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I’m sad for my friend Liu Xiaobo, and for a China that can’t cherish its finest
Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and one of China’s greatest thinkers and pro-democracy activists, is in dire health, diagnosed with terminal liver cancer after serving nine years out...
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China would prefer Hong Kong forget about another historic anniversary that...
As China prepares to celebrate its 20th year of recovered sovereignty over Hong Kong—which until the 1997 handover had been a British colony for a century and a half—another historic anniversary that...
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Chinese “wealth clusters” show how good it is when the government stays out...
The Chinese government takes great credit for starting the economic reforms in 1978 that brought China out of the darkness of the Mao era. But the most important thing it really did was get out of the...
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Don’t call them “locusts”: They may one day be proud Hong Kong locals
Since 1997, when Hong Kong, a former British colony, reverted to Chinese control, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of people from the Chinese mainland living here, many arriving on a...
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An unsettling video made at the bedside of ailing Chinese dissident Liu...
Several mainland Chinese and Hong Kong news sites on Sunday (July 9) shared a video that appears to show a portion of the visit by the two foreign doctors to ailing Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo....
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Japan’s “vagina artist” is back and raising the alarm on prison conditions
Japanese artist and activist Megumi Igarashi, most famous for 3D printing her vagina in order to build a genitalia-shaped kayak, is stepping up her political activism now that Prime Minister Shinzo...
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China is keeping Liu Xia, widow of human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, from...
Where is Liu Xia? Last month it was the dying wish of her late husband, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, that she be allowed to go abroad. Instead, Chinese authorities are...
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