The events that have been unfolding in Hong Kong lately probably have left many, especially in the West, wondering what’s up with this city that has long been considered a bridge and melting pot between East and West. A...
The huge flow of internal migrants in China is well-known and has been thoroughly reported on by observers of Chinese society (see this FAR article). Although less sizeable, another kind of migration is creeping up on the Part...
Hong Kong may have taken the lead in observing the Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but other Chinese speaking communities, such as the people of Taiwan, also organize annual candlelight vigils in memory of the in...
In 1985, 33-year-old Hun Sen became the youngest prime minister in the world. Nearly thirty years later, Prime Minister Sen is now Southeast Asia’s longest serving non-royal leader. His grip on power, however, is trembling. A...
Following the end of the Second World War, the objectives of North American and EU foreign policy changed international politics forever. Rather than questions of the military power of the expansionist Soviet Union, objectives ...
[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”icon_link”] With “Operation Damascus Volcano” under way, it is clear that opposition forces, ar...
At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
Previously – Tibet: Inside the Occupation (A Colonized Tibet and the Attack on Religion) Economic Disparity It is not only the loss of material culture and the manipulation of Tibet’s physical environment that is bein...
Grudges can last for a long time. The one held between China and Japan, the two traditional adversaries of the Far East, however, has been particularly lengthy. Since 1895, when China suffered a bitter defeat to Japan in the Si...