Back in 2010 I had the pleasure of catching Ai Wei Wei's sunflower-seed exhibit at the Tate Modern art museum with a Taiwanese friend ...

As well as being an object lesson in why national debt is something that should concern a country's leadership, and why parties attempti...

Last night we were promised aurora . Either they didn't happen, or I missed them as my attention was elsewhere, but something much be...

Compare this: With this: The German result, where the majority of those interviewed said they would not support assisting a NATO ...

I think it's worthwhile in these times when Hong Kong is only ever talked about as a millstone around the neck of the PRC government...

If you haven't already, please go and read this masterful take-down by Alec Ash of yet another China expat memoir expounding the same la...

As has been pretty much inevitable since Beijing's decision to offer what amounts to something only vaguely resembling democratic elec...

I've recently been doing a bit of amateurish research into the 1931 Manchurian "Incident" (a curiously anodyne word for th...

I spent a few hours today standing outside a polling station wearing the rosette of a political party whose identity I'm sure will n...

As far as I know, the PRC has never retracted, or re-examined, its claims that UN forces in Korea during the Korean war used bacteriolog...

This graph from Alex Massie's latest post over at The Spectator says a great deal about the current state of British politics: At...

Two weeks ago my wife and I flew back into a typically cold, wet and horrid British January after having spent a wonderful time sailing...

There's pretty much no other way to read the details of the CIA's torture program  without coming to a very simple conclusion : that...