Xi Jinping is not known for his easy smiles. China’s most powerful Communist leader in decades has built a reputation ...

In the past few decades, several historians and academics tried to make sense of the fast-changing, turbulent, and disruptive world order. There were discussions on the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ ...

In an era when social media blurs the line between public and private speech, how do people decide whether to speak their ...

But we have had a president “solve” a war — and win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. When Theodore Roosevelt accomplished ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

Given the political culture of the contemporary Chinese state, it is not at all surprising what its Foreign Minister Wang Yi ...

Penpa Tsering, has announced plans to host a global conference to scrutinise China's historical claim over the so-called 1793 "golden urn" decree, which Beijing insists governs the recognition of ...

Taiwan can't afford to hike its defence budget to more than three percent of GDP, the new leader of the democratic island's ...

Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about The Willamette University football team that was temporarily stranded in the islands after the ...

Zhou Enlai was one of the most important figures in the Chinese Communist Party. As the first Premier and Foreign Minister of ...

Mindy Belz captures the heart of Pastor Ezra Jin’s vision for online worship (“Xi Is Watching as Chinese Christians Pray,” ...