Thousand of peaceful demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered to protest Beijing's failure to allow meaningful democratic elections in the te...

So the results are in, the ballots counted, the results accepted, and the Union preserved by a healthy, if not totally overwhelming margi...

I attended the Unity Rally in London on Monday, where I took the above picture. Geldof spoke well, and movingly, about the opportunities ...

Scottish voters are due to vote, as is their democratic right, on independence in ten days time. The arguments on the virtues of the SNP...

I read a very interesting piece over at the Peking Review on Xi's apparent rejection of Deng's low-profile foreign policy, in cont...

So, the new elections system for Hong Kong, a system that was probably decided many years ago, has now been made public. As suspected, it ...

Two weeks ago today I was resting on a river bank by a lazy river, nursing an epic hangover after the greatest, most enjoyable and touching...

Nearly four years ago, after a relatively short hop over the East and the South China seas from Kansai International, and a far-too-long lay...

So Occupy Central's unofficial referendum on the voting system to be used for future elections in Hong Kong is over, and the number o...

This article about the "Nanfang Street Movement", a translated version of an article that originally appeared in  Le Monde  about...

Reading the PRC governments recently-released white paper, snappily titled "The Practice of the "One Country, Two Systems" Po...

Via MKL's facebook feed I read this piece on Tsai Yingwen's return to the top of the DPP, a shining example of Want China Times...

Flicking through the recently-released US Department of Defense's annual report on the Chinese military , there's quite a few things...

Lately I've been reading Noel Barber's excellent (if definitely of its time) The War of The Running Dogs *, a book which tells t...