One sentiment you occasionally hear expressed by some of the outside observers of Polish affairs that knew the country in the 1980's is ...

So the Japanese government has announced that it's going to permit further whaling for "scientific" purposes even though th...

Right now I'm sat in Hong Kong airport waiting for a flight to Taipei. Hong Kong is much the wonderful mix of a place that I remembered ...

I've written a few   times about the phenomenon of western European and American journalists and commentators appearing on the state-...

One of the reasons given for the People's Bank of China's devaluation of the Yuan was to allow the currency to reach " more m...

Yesterday the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, gave a speech on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender to the A...

It's been a crazy, dangerous period in Chinese affairs. Firstly, following on from the stock-market crash which saw indexes fall by ...

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...