When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gathered in Kuala Lumpur in 2015 to select the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics, it...

While narratives of anti-Islamic sentiments continue to dominate the American media, little airtime is given to how other parts of the...

In 2012, Zhou Yongkang enjoyed political success as both the chairman of the Central Political and Legislative Affairs Commission and a...

When it comes to President Donald Trump’s Twitter page, there is no shortage of inane posts, particularly in relation to global warming....

Xi Jinping was already set to make headlines as he stepped up to the podium at the Davos World Economic Forum in January. No Chinese...

Since coming into office, US President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders attempting to repeal the policies enacted by...

Since being elected three months ago as president of the Philippines with 39 percent of the vote, Rodrigo Duterte has publicly called for...

For any major power looking to grow its influence, Kazakhstan is a hidden gem. While short on name recognition, the Central Asian...

Wang Yu — previously one of the top lawyers at China’s most successful human rights law firm — sits, hands calmly folded in her lap,...

Professor Jonathan Kirshner is a Professor of International Political Economy at Cornell University. His research focuses on classical...

With $40.9 million in ticket sales on its first day, the Chinese film “The Mermaid” broke global box office records in February of this...

On September 21, 2015, the world watched the inaugural trip of sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban light rail system — and if they didn’t,...

Pakistan has long struggled with deep civil strife. Since widespread ethnic cleansing after India’s partitioning in the 1940s, a myriad...

Mei Fong, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has reported on the societal impacts of China’s burgeoning economy. Her most recent book,...

Last month, President Xi Jinping of China took a choreographed tour of the country’s largest media organizations, and, with the...

Manga, Japan’s infamous cartoon characters, are now being employed as something new: military weapons. The display of charming, young...

Big changes are underway in Taiwan. Earlier this year, the country’s political landscape was significantly reshaped, as Tsai Ing-wen, the...

Political tremors are nothing new to Nepal. As the country has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past few decades, altercations...

In December of last year, two boats chartered by the environmental vigilante group Sea Shepherd, the Bob Barker and the Sam Simon,...

On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable...