By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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North Korea's third nuclear test has put the burden on China to punish its communist ally, but Beijing is unlikely to do anything to hurt Pyongyang, Asia analysts said Tuesday.
North Korea’s third nuclear test has put the burden on China to punish its communist ally, but Beijing is unlikely to do anything to hurt Pyongyang, Asia analysts said Tuesday.
The Philippines said Tuesday that it is taking its feud with China over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea to an international tribunal.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Thursday that the Pentagon is developing new battle plans for Asia that include adding Marines to better-coordinated naval and air forces in the region where China is expanding its military might.
The Obama administration will cancel shortwave radio broadcasts by Voice of America into China this year, as Beijing is expanding its propaganda operations in the United States and around the world.
In response to John J. Tkacik Jr.'s claim that "the Senkakus have been Japanese for more than 130 years," ("China tests U.S.-Japan alliance," Opinion, Oct. 6) I would like to set the record straight in two respects.
Dozens of Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners were barred from entering Hong Kong recently, serving as a reminder that the city's constitutional freedoms are ultimately subject to Beijing's authority, according to outside analysts and Falun Gong activists.
Dozens of Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners were barred from entering Hong Kong recently, serving as a reminder that the city's constitutional freedoms are ultimately subject to Beijing's authority, according to outside analysts and Falun Gong activists.
"Beijing will react to this latest nuclear test in the same schizophrenic way it has reacted to Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests since 2006," said John J. Tkacik Jr., director of the Future Asia Project at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
“It will issue some vague and meaningless remonstrance at the United Nations and call for a return to the feckless ‘six-party talks,’” he said, referring to stalled negotiations involving North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States aimed at shutting down Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
