East Asia

With drone plan, China seems to be learning America's unilateral ways

26 Feb 2013

Talk about China's ambitions and excesses with mainland officials, scholars and students, and the phrase "just look at what the US does" surfaces with crushing inevitability.

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Strategic mistrust a useful ally in Korean Peninsula

25 Feb 2013

With new leaderships in place in China, Japan and South Korea, hopes are high about opportunities for better co-operation in East Asia. Expectations are particularly high for South Korea's Park...

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The major power shift at play in East Asia must not end in war

1 Feb 2013

Whether East Asia's politicians and pundits like it or not, the region's international relations are more akin to 19th-century European balance-of-power politics than to the stable Europe of today...

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Lack of trust clouds strategies of China, Japan and the US in East Asia

30 Jan 2013

The world watches in bewilderment as two of its largest economies inch ever closer to war. It's all the more puzzling given that the countries have become close trading partners in recent years...

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Japan's Shinzo Abe sending envoy to see South Korea's Park Geun-hye

22 Dec 2012

Japan's incoming prime minister said yesterday he would send a special envoy to Seoul to meet South Korea's president-elect, in an early attempt to mend frayed ties.

Shinzo Abe will send a...

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South Koreans head to ballot box to elect new president

19 Dec 2012

Just days after the return of the hawkish Shinzo Abe to power in Japan, South Koreans today head to the ballot box to elect their new president.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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John Kerry's familiarity in Asia - a plus, or a minus?

The prospect of failed US presidential candidate John Kerry becoming the next US secretary of state throws up a number of intriguing questions for the East Asian region. One of the key ones is:...

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Hong Kong men end moustache campaign for prostate cancer

Hongkongers have defied a myth that East Asian men can't grow much facial hair - and all for a good cause, raising awareness of prostate cancer in a month-long campaign.

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Japan should rethink US ties and improve relations with China

Changing times necessitate new thinking. Japanese who believe that their country's security alliance with the US has become a hindrance rather than a benefit certainly think so.

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Asian growth

ADB cuts growth estimates, says Asia must boost service sector

The Asian Development Bank cut most of its 2012 and 2013 growth estimates for developing Asia on Wednesday as a slump in global demand weighs on the region’s powerhouses China and India and on its...

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China will reshape East Asian politics

When former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa came out to discuss the health of China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, it served as a reminder that the 18th national congress of the Communist Party is...

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Heated rhetoric over disputed islands serves Asia poorly