UK The papers are already heralding UK Independence Party receiving the most votes in the UK elections for the European Parliament as a ...

"People who want to blame poorer people from other countries for what they dislike about modern life are prey to cruel and erroneous th...

Taiwan observer J. Michael Cole has a new post over at The Diplomat that plumbs a new low in the annals of the willingness of some in the ...

I guess all of us ex-expats eventually get to the point where they've been long enough out of the country that it no longer quite res...

One Thursday morning in 2000, Stephen Saunders, an Athens-based British diplomat, was driving to work when two men on a motor-cycle pull...

Let me say it first, even if I loath these portmanteau joinings-together of country names in order to hype relations between them (worst ...

I'm afraid this will be a nostalgic post, since I'm now doing a clean-up of my blog roll to weed out those blogs that are no more. ...

Vietnamese demonstrations against drilling for oil in a disputed area of the South China appear to have turned into something resembling...

Having written on the subject of Western journalists working for the state-controlled media of oppressive regimes before ,it has been with g...

Let’s begin with a clear and candid assessment of the facts. It is a fact that Russian military forces have taken over Ukrainian border pos...

If you're a fan of hathos , this post on the NYT's "You're The Boss" blog is a treat. It's a list of the things t...

This fascinating Straits Times piece on what (PRC government mouthpiece) Wen Wei Po 's publishing of a lurid description of how Kim Jon...

Whenever anyone asks me why Chinese and Koreans get so angry about Japanese politicians visiting the Yasukuni shrine, I ask them to imagine ...

"Personal opinion" or not, this insane plan for conquering most of Asia published as an editorial in the Chinese Communist Party...