Opinion

Beijing Anger-ometer, April 2024: Surplus Steel and Rage as China’s Cheap Goods Get the Cold Shoulder

China has a supply-side plan to subjugate the world economy that goes something like this: Having thrown the weight of the state — not to mention its

From March 27 to April 10, 2024, the Canadian government conducted the latest phase of its Foreign Interference Commission, which seeks to learn

This month marks 45 years since the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) by the United States Congress. A bipartisan effort, longtime Taiwan

If you don’t know about something, you cannot presciently vote about it. You can guess. You can approximate. But ultimately you are taking a shot in

Funeral crashers. We’ve all heard of them — the “mourners” who turn up at ceremonies to mark the passing of people they have never met just to

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a so-far failed attempt to amalgamate it by force under Moscow rule. Whether the intention was to

“Laam chau” (攬炒), a form of mutually assured destruction, has been a subtext in the battle between pro-democracy demonstrators and their

When China decided it would transform democracy into a crime in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, it immediately went hunting for a

U.S. President Joe Biden became one of his country’s 170 million TikTok users in February and, then, in March, promised to sign legislation into law

From the second alleged torture victim Andy Li (李宇軒) took to the witness stand in the trial of media magnate Jimmy Lai (黎智英) last week, Hong Kong

Planes, trains and automobiles: Transport is at the forefront of China President Xi Jinping’s mind as he doubles down on “new industrialization” and

Factories, farms and homes in Taiwan will soon play host to migrant workers from a new country: India. Taiwan’s labor ministry announced on February