Things are warming up across the Taiwan Strait
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Taiwan Makes Massive Heroin Bust
Drugs found at airport stashed inside music equipment
Powerful Earthquake Strikes Taiwan
No immediate reports of casualties or damage
Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng on Freedom, Surveillance and Speaking Out
Chen Guangcheng made world headlines in 2012 when he escaped house arrest and took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, before traveling to the U.S. with his family to take up a position as a visiting scholar at the New York …
New Pope Offers Taiwan Rare Chance for Diplomacy
President Ma Ying-jeou sat with his wife among political leaders on Tuesday as newly installed Pope Francis celebrated his inaugural Mass at the Vatican
Taiwan Strait: How One Security Concern in Asia Is Quietly Easing
Taiwan’s Lien Chan met with China’s Xi Jinping and nobody freaked out. Why that’s good news for cross-strait ties.
Must-Reads from Around the World
In today’s required reading: another massacre in Syria, Japan plans to buy disputed South China Sea islands and communal violence rears its head again in Indonesia.
Must-Reads from Around the World
American ideals versus interests in Ethiopia, Apple and Foxconn told to do more on labor conditions in Chinese factories and François Hollande faces criticism over treatment of the Roma
Must-Reads from Around the World
Today’s required reading: reports on and from inside Syria, Burma’s slow march towards media freedom and Chinese scorn for U.S. military moves in Asia.
Turf Wars: A Guide to East Asia’s Troubled Waters
This is not just about China. Depending on the dispute, it’s also South Korea vs. Japan, Japan vs. Taiwan, Taiwan vs. Vietnam, Vietnam vs. Cambodia, and numerous other permutations.
Why Asia’s Maritime Disputes Are Not Just About China
When it comes to feuds in the Pacific over islands and what lies beneath, it’s not simply a case of China against everyone else
Must-Reads from Around the World
In today’s choices: the conflict in Syria seeps over its borders, the Latin economies still enjoying the good times and tests of sovereignty in the South China Sea.
Must-Reads from Around the World, August 6, 2012
Today’s picks: resistance to Islamism in Mali, the illegal organs trade and more recriminations between China and the U.S. over the South China Sea.