Category: Regional Politics in Asia
Stephan Haggard on North Korean refugees: the Chinese “underground railroad,” integration into South Korea, and the future of U.S. policy
"The Yalu River seen from the Yunfeng dam with a railway bridge and a factory. North Korea on the left, China on the right." by Jacky Lee — Panoramio. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ... Read More
Syaru Shirley Lin on Taiwan’s China dilemma: contested identities and multiple interests in Taiwan’s cross-strait economic policy
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen (right). Syaru Shirley Lin is a member of the founding faculty of the master’s program in global political economy at the Ch... Read More
Nirupama Rao on Indian diplomacy with the world’s largest economies
Nirupama Rao entered the Indian Foreign Service in 1973 and served as India's ambassador to the United States, China, and Sri Lanka, as well as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011. She was the... Read More
Miemie Winn Byrd on Myanmar’s progress toward democracy: beyond media coverage
Aung San Suu Kyi greeting supporters from Bago State. Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. She holds a Doctorate in Education... Read More
Andrew Walder on Mao’s image under Xi
Andrew Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford Universit... Read More
Alan Romberg on Cross-Strait diplomacy
Alan Romberg is a Distinguished Fellow and the Director of the East Asia program at Stimson. Before joining Stimson in September 2000, he enjoyed a distinguished career working on Asian issues includi... Read More
Andrew Nathan on important trends in China
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of polit... Read More
Andrew Small on China’s growing economic engagement with Pakistan
Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which he established in 2006. He was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five yea... Read More