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Andrew Salmon

asalmon@washingtontimes.com

Seoul, South Korea-based Andrew Salmon, Asia Editor at The Washington Times. brings two decades of journalistic experience to the position. Before joining The Washington Times, he was Northeast Asia Editor of Hong Kong-based Asia Times. Andrew’s reporting previously appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Forbes, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times. He has made television appearances on Arirang TV, CNN and France24. He can be reached at asalmon@washingtontimes.com.

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People walk past a police station in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region, on April 21, 2021. A prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people's folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a U.S.-based foundation that works on human rights cases in China. Rahile Dawut was convicted on charges of endangering state security in December 2018 in a secret trial, the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation said in a statement Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

China executes ‘slow-motion genocide’ in Tibet, Xinjiang, conference told

There are bloody conflicts around the globe, in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, producing in some loose talk of genocide. But for attendees at the International Freedom of Religion Summit Asia, held in Tokyo earlier this month, the discussion was precise and the target clear in what many said was a quiet, de facto policy genocide being carried out by China's Communist regime in both Tibet and Xinjiang.

July 25, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin awards Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Modi’s chummy visit with Putin poses conundrum for U.S., allies

While the leaders of Japan, South Korea and New Zealand huddled in Washington with their North American and European counterparts for the NATO Summit, Indian President Narendra Modi wrapped up two days with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

July 10, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden, center, greets South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, on Aug. 18, 2023, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Md. South Korea’s President Yoon said the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he pushes to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Japan, Korea, New Zealand leaders attend summit as NATO’s vision expands

With the Ukraine war as a backdrop, key U.S. Asian allies have been invited to crash the party at this week's 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington, where China's dual-use exports to Russia and the Kremlin's warming ties to North Korea are expected to be among the agenda items up for discussion.

July 9, 2024
Japan Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro shake hands after signing the reciprocal access agreement, at the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, Monday, July 8, 2024. (Lisa Marie David/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan, Philippines ink security partnership in boost to U.S. regional strategy

Japan and the Philippines signed a bilateral security deal Monday, part of a growing net of relationships between U.S.-allied democracies across and beyond the Indo-Pacific region. The deal is expected to accelerate bilateral defense ties between the two nations, which have both clashed in heated maritime territorial disputes with China in recent years.

July 8, 2024
Coastal Control Division Chief Liao Yun-Hung talks about a fishing boat intercepted by Chinese vessels Tuesday night, during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Taiwan is calling for the release of a fishing boat after it was boarded by China''s coast guard and steered to a port in mainland China on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Chinese seizure of Taiwanese fishing boat seen as part of troubling pattern

Chinese forces seized a Taiwanese fishing boat in the ill-defined waters off the island of Kinmen late Tuesday night and took the vessel to a Chinese port, Taiwanese news outlets reported Wednesday. This is Beijing's latest aggressive move short of outright combat against the island democracy it claims as part of its sovereign territory.

July 3, 2024
People protest against the visit by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel near a military post of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Friday, May 17, 2024. Emanuel visited two southwestern Japanese islands at the forefront of tension with China's increasingly assertive actions in the regional waters. (Kyodo News via AP)

Assault case, late notification add fuel to dispute over U.S. Okinawa base

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. serviceman in Okinawa for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Japanese minor, a crime that looks set to reignite Okinawan grievances against both the heavy American military presence on the strategic island and the central government in Tokyo.

June 26, 2024
In this handout photo provided by Armed Forces of the Philippines, Chinese Coast Guard hold knives and machetes as they approach Philippine troops on a resupply mission in the Second Thomas Shoal at the disputed South China Sea on June 17, 2024. The president of the Philippines said Sunday, June 23, 2024, his country would not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines would never instigate a war.(Armed Forces of the Philippines via AP, File)

Marcos struggles with message as Beijing ramps up the pressure

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Sunday broadcast a mixed message of goodwill and defiance six days after a violent clash with Chinese forces sent tensions soaring even higher near a disputed, flash point reef in the South China Sea.

June 23, 2024