Asia Posts
An abortive coup in South Korea
This rash attempt to impose martial law will have global repercussions
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Japan’s elections reveal a nation in crisis
Scandal-ridden politicians seem incapable of rising to the huge social, economic and geopolitical challenges ahead
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What is China doing in the Philippines?
The South China Sea is a tinderbox waiting to ignite
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The struggle for Taiwan
The stand-off between China and the US is at serious risk of escalating
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Why the world cannot ignore South Korea
How Seoul navigates the tensions between China and the West will have major repercussions for us all
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Jiang Zemin and the end of the era of openness
The late CCP bureaucrat’s liberalising reforms have made him an unlikely figure of nostalgia
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The coming conflict with China
The smiles at the G20 cannot mask the deep tensions between East and West
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Stop blaming climate change for Pakistan’s floods
Poverty and underdevelopment are the real causes of this devastation
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Shinzo Abe’s troubling legacy
He was a giant of Japanese politics, but the hagiographies don’t tell the whole story
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Is China about to invade Taiwan?
Xi Jinping is hesitant – and he has good reason to be
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How Shinzo Abe failed
His reign as Japanese PM proved as ineffective as it was illiberal
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Taking China to task
Andrew Marr was right to grill the CCP over its brutal treatment of Uighur Muslims. Brits must resist easy moral posturing, however.
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Boycott China? Don’t be stupid
China is set to become even more central to the world economy after Covid than it was before
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There is no ‘appeasement’ of China
On the 80th anniversary of Dunkirk, we should remember not to dress up today’s conflicts in the politics of the past
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China since Wuhan
China expert Austin Williams and I introduce a debate on the internal and external dimensions of the Middle Kingdom’s economics and politics
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Taiwan’s blow for democracy
Inspired by the Hong Kong protests, Taiwan has decisively rejected Beijing rule
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Ageing in China
Sky News interview on ageing in China and government interest in shaping family sizes
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India’s dialectic of progress
Two new books show how far post-independence India has come, and how far it has still to go
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Electric car, Made in China
Few in the West have taken the full measure of China’s drive toward electric vehicles
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Chinese consumer markets cannot be turned back
Can China develop a coherent, vibrant internal market and break its dependency on large state-owned industries?
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China’s productivity
The use of labour has been China’s main economic strength. Can it move beyond that?
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China’s leap forward on patents
How groundbreaking are China’s patents? How innovative really is China?
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Chinese innovation assessed
Can China innovate? How might its innovations change the rest of the world?
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International Intrigue and a Slow Web in China’s Dalian
Not a lot of Westerners have heard of Dalian, a major port and a centre for financial services logistics and higher education in northeast China
Read the full article...Computer games in China – some battles on screen, more in the market
The Chinese Communist Party won’t permit lurid content, but commercial competition in the games sector is pretty bloodthirsty
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China: big shale reserves, but little fracking before 2020
When China finally gets fracking, there’ll be enough water to do the job. And fracking won’t kill the number of people coal does
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China struggles to engineer robot revolution
Just as China’s strengths in cyberwar have stirred Western perceptions of a nation on the move, so its talents in robotics could be the stuff of nightmares.
Read the full article...Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene
Why India’s middle-class warriors against corruption aren’t so heroic
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‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned’
A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril.
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On a recent trip to India, James Woudhuysen collected a prize for Excellence in Innovation. As proof, he records the boom and dust of his travels.
Read the full article...The green man’s burden
Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to set an example to nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us?
Read the full article...A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?
Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated.
Read the full article...Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth
Those calling on China and India to ‘kick the coal habit’, and opt for less sooty forms of energy, overlook the vast benefits of coal-use for those nations.
Read the full article...Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’
Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward.
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Ignore the scaremongering of environmentalist writers and thinkers: China should be free to develop as it wishes.
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Will an e-waste crisis be made in China?
In the world of IT, both energy use and e-waste look set to gain an Eastern aspect.
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China Telecom is one of the world’s most dynamic telcos and is touting for European business.
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The man who built Sony
Akio Morita, co-founder and chief executive of Sony, is possibly Japan’s most important post-war industrialist. This is a review of his book, written with Edwin Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura, Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony (Collins)
Read the full article...How the East was won: Japan in the 20th century
The West usually attributes Japanese industrial success to innate national characteristics such as feudal loyalty, hard work and passivity
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#IOPC IN THE NEWS AGAIN. Pix: DG Rachel Watson; Acting Deputy DG Kathie Cashell;
Amanda Rowe and Steve Noonann, both Acting Directors, Operations.
That's a lot of acting! No wonder the IOPC's report never saw the light of day.
Are we a bit flaccid, perhaps?
A dubious editorial decision by the Daily Mail that risks glorifying one of the most evil men in history. Who cares about his air fryer recipes?