Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Willy Lam on the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
Willy Lam is a veteran observer and analyst of Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics and author of numerous books on China. He is an Adjunct Professor at the History Department and the Center f... Read More
Orville Schell on U.S.-China relations under President Trump: a look into the Asia Society’s task force report
U.S. Northern Command as they testify on the Law of the Sea before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2012. Public Domain. Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director... Read More
David Dollar on capital control in China
David Dollar is a Senior Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2013 Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s Economic and Financial Emissary to China, based in... Read More
Professor Imamura on Japan’s demographic crisis
An elderly man at Shimonose Park, Sasebo, Japan Dr. Anne E. Imamura is currently Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Until her retirement in 2015, she was the Area Studies Divisio... Read More
Amrita Basu on women’s safety in India
"Indian Women" by Joshua Song — Own work. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr Creative Commmons — https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3028/2968699883_75d13b7c4d_b.jpg Amrita Basu is the Paino P... Read More
After killing TPP: now what?
Gary Hufbauer has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues. He is coauthor of Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States (... Read More
Katharine Moon on President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal
Katharine (Kathy) H.S. Moon is a professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1993. She is also a nonresident senior fellow ... Read More
Yoichi Funabashi on the legacy of President Obama’s East Asia policy
Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and President Barack Obama shaking hands at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Yoichi Funabashi is an award-winning Japanese journalist, columnist and author. He has writt... Read More
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