Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Gordon Hanson on trade with China
Gordon Hanson holds the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego, and has faculty positions in the Department of Economics and GPS, where he also is direc... Read More
Murray Hiebert on the mega corruption scandal in Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim speaks during a rally to denounce 2013 elections. Murray Hiebert serves as senior fellow and deputy director of the Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and Inter... Read More
Willy Lam on recent developments in Hong Kong
Riot police stand by on Hong Kong's Nathan Road during the unrest in February 2016 that was later called the "Fishball Revolution." Willy Lam is a veteran observer and analyst of Chinese foreign polic... Read More
Wei Zhang on China’s macroeconomic mistakes
Dr. Wei Zhang is currently executive director and CEO of Mingly Corporation in Hong Kong. Before he joined Mingly Corporation in 2011, he was Lecturer of Economics and Director of Cambridge Research U... Read More
Sidney Jones on terrorist attacks in Indonesia
A police box shows damage caused by a suicide bomb attack in Jakarta on Jan. 14, 2016. Four civilians were killed and many more were wounded. Sidney Jones is founder and director of Institute for Poli... Read More
Hoping on gay rights in China
The celebration in front of the United States Supreme Court upon the announcement of the Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under the 14th Amendm... Read More
Priscilla Clapp on Burma’s ethnic minorities
Displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine State in 2012. Ms. Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. She is currently a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace. During her ... Read More
Vikram Nehru on the U.S.-ASEAN Summit
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets ASEAN Foreign Ministers before the start of the U.S.-ASEAN meeting on the sidelines of the 70th Regular Session of the U.N .General Assembly in New York Sept.... Read More
Peter Rutland on Russia and China: Through a Glass Darkly
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015. Peter Rutland is Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University... Read More