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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 17, 2014
China's bold maritime claims test Obama's Asia 'pivot'
U.S. President Barack Obama sought to reassure allies in Asia last month that the United States would support them in the face of a more assertive China.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 16, 2014
Violence abates in Vietnam as U.S. warns China for 'provocation'
Anti-China violence subsided in Vietnam on Friday after the prime minister called for calm and its de facto ambassador to Taiwan apologized, but the United States said China's "provocative" actions in maritime disputes were dangerous and had to stop.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 16, 2014
Aging, crowded China instigates funereal revolution: burial at sea
Before Li Zhenxuan died at the age 101, the former chief officer of a Chinese riverboat told his son he wanted his ashes to be scattered at sea along with those of his mother, who passed away in 1965, and his wife, who died in 1995.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2014
The once-mighty U.S. is in decline: Get used to it
Like fourth-century Romans, Americans are beginning to realize that they are no longer citizens of an unrivaled superpower. And they're kind of freaking out about it.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2014
Why the dollar will remain the top currency
China is missing one crucial ingredient as it builds the renminbi's claim to reserve-currency status: the world's trust with regard to a broader and more credible set of public and political institutions.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2014
A new cold war or a cool power calculation?
Americans understand that if they go too far too fast in pushing sanctions against Russia in the Ukraine crisis, Europe will publicly break with the U.S. approach, because the Europeans have a lot more at stake economically.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2014
Is China the top economic power?
New World Bank figures suggesting that China's GDP will overtake that of the U.S. sometime this year raise profound issues for Americans who have presumed that postwar economic affluence depends on countries becoming more like the U.S.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
May 16, 2014
China's hunger for sea cucumbers reaches African islands
As evening falls over Sierra Leone's Banana Island archipelago, bats stream from their beachside roosts to circle in their thousands over the jungle village of Dublin.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 15, 2014
Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam
Up to 21 people were killed in Vietnam, a doctor said on Thursday, and a huge foreign steel project was set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the center of the country a day after arson and looting in the south.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2014
China's elite 'princelings' quietly push for Nobel laureate's freedom
A group of "princelings," children of China's political elite, has quietly urged the Communist Party leadership to release jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo on parole to improve the country's international image, two sources said.
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2014
Perils of financial freedom
Chinese officials should be under no illusion that free markets are a panacea for the financial sector.
JAPAN / History
May 10, 2014
Going nuclear: How close has Japan come?
We examine the historical debate on the country's nuclear ambitions
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 8, 2014
Glimpses of grim reality in a movement driven underground
"Come in and have a look."
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 8, 2014
Green reform takes different hue in China
China's massive pollution problems have given rise to a new force of environmental campaigners, different politically from middle-class activists in the West and potentially more effective in tackling climate change, according to new research.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
May 8, 2014
The 'yes-man' whose faith defied China's rulers
It was shaping up to be a win in the Communist Party's quest to contain a longtime nemesis — the Roman Catholic Church. In July 2012, a priest named Thaddeus Ma Daqin was to be ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 7, 2014
Tensions high as South China Sea disputes boil over
China has demanded the Philippines release a Chinese fishing boat and its crew seized in the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday, the latest flare-up in the oil and gas-rich waters that are claimed wholly or in part by six nations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 7, 2014
Economic divide fueling surge in Xinjiang unrest
Hundreds of migrant workers from distant corners of China pour daily into the Urumqi South railway station, their first waypoint on a journey carrying them to lucrative work in other parts of the far western Xinjiang region.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 5, 2014
'Ordinary' billionaire behind canal project
Wang Jing, the enigmatic businessman behind Nicaragua's $50 billion Interoceanic Grand Canal, shrugs off skepticism about how a little-known entrepreneur can be driving a huge transcontinental project, insisting he is not an agent of the Beijing government.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2014
China militants show new daring
A bombing in western China that killed three people and wounded 79 on Wednesday has raised concerns about the apparent sophistication and daring of the attack, which possibly was timed to coincide with a visit to the heavily Muslim region by President Xi Jinping.
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2014
Ending Asia's zero-sum games
Perhaps if Asia's leaders viewed East Asia's rapid economic transformation, geopolitical dynamics and historical animosities like a recenlty arrived space alien, they would see what they need to do to halt the dangerous trends.

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