InternationalNews
The pro-democracy protests that captured the energy of youth in Hong Kong — and earned sympathy around the world — ended flatly earlier this month,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
North Korea’s cyber attack on Sony has generated debate as to whether it was an “act of war” or “cyber-vandalism.” The answer lies in between… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Myth 1. The U.S. and other nations face a policy choice between sanctions or engagement All instruments of national power should be used simultaneously in… Read More
InternationalNews
On Thursday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon discussed Sony Pictures’ decision to cancel the release of “The Interview.” “Which means the hackers… Read More
InternationalNews
On “Morning Joe” today, Willie Geist asked if the North Koreans were capable of organizing a 9/11-style attack. “North Korea never carries out its threats—except… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Freedom took a beating yesterday. America rolled over in the face of two of its longest standing adversaries, and we didn’t even get anything in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have picked a bad time to try to restore the Russian empire. Collapsing energy prices are weakening the value… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Cars began transiting through Hong Kong’s Admiralty district overnight for the first time in 75 days, as police finally brought an end to that city’s… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“Saturday Night Live” often acts as a good barometer of what’s going on in the world. Last week, its opening sketch nailed just how grumpy… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Demands by Hong Kong’s people for the autonomy and freedom that China promised has gotten Beijing’s autocrats into such a tizzy that they’re losing sight… Read More
InternationalCommentary
With the world no longer looking in so intently, police in Hong Kong overnight swept in and cleared one of the largest protest spots in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Historically, economics has often driven the narrative surrounding presidential visits to Asia. Consider President Obama’s 2009 trip to China in the midst of the global… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Obama may be poisoning the well with his executive action on immigration, but in at least one area there was welcome bipartisan comity in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
What’s the takeaway from President Obama’s meetings with Chinese president Xi-Jinping? While the Obama administration has been trumpeting an agreement by both sides to limit… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Eleven women have died after undergoing laparoscopic tubectomies as part of a mass sterilization campaign in Chhattisgarh, India. Of the more than 80 women who… Read More
InternationalCommentary
North Korea unexpectedly released the final two American citizens it had been holding on trumped-up charges of espionage. Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller were freed… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In the largest terrorist attack in Pakistan in more than a year, a suicide bomber on Sunday detonated his explosives near the border with India… Read More
InternationalNews
In mid-October, during the peak of the democracy protests in Hong Kong, decidedly different demonstrators congregated outside the printing plant of Next Media, publisher of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
North Korea now has the ability to produce a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be mounted atop a ballistic missile. That is the assessment of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Russian military incursions into the airspace of NATO countries and submarine expeditions into Swedish territorial waters have intensified since its annexation of Crimea in March,… Read More
InternationalNews
Until he was the target of tear gas recently during protests, Martin Lee, founding chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, knew his city… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Pyongyang has unexpectedly released Jeffrey Fowle, one of three American citizens being held for alleged crimes against North Korea. Fowle, a 56-year-old American tourist, was… Read More
InternationalCommentary
September 4, 1839 Start of the First Opium War between China and Great Britain. Although some historians and figures at the time, including our sixth… Read More
InternationalNews
A video has emerged of a pro-democracy protester being beaten in Hong Kong. In the video of a protest on Wednesday, a handcuffed man is… Read More
InternationalNews
Alan Leong, a leading pro-democracy legislator in Hong Kong, says he believes student protesters who flooded into the city over the past three weeks already… Read More
InternationalCommentary
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has waddled back onto the world stage ending, or at least reducing, widespread speculation of coups or assassinations in Pyongyang…. Read More
InternationalNews
“For mainland Chinese who desire freedom and democracy, Hong Kong is like the lighthouse for a boat in the open sea,” Chinese human rights activist… Read More
InternationalNews
The stare-down between Hong Kong’s government and pro-democracy demonstrators intensified for a second day after the government pulled out of planned talks. Hong Kong’s government… Read More
InternationalCommentary
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize brings attention to long-standing tensions between India and Pakistan, which have flared in the last week due to heavy cross-border shelling… Read More
InternationalNews
Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India—advocates for children’s rights—will share this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Yousafzai’s fight for girls’ education gained international… Read More
