Recent revelations about the deplorable working conditions at an Apple factory in China provide a cautionary tale about globalization and consumerism.read more

Here’s a trend to watch in the coming year: the rise of new economic powers.read more

The worst, I fear, is not yet over for Ai. Meanwhile, two acclaimed Iranian filmmakers remain behind bars.read more

China wrongly believes it can maintain control by manipulating the succession to the Dalai Lama’s post.read more

Google’s possible closure of its operations in China will not atone for all the harm it—and other leading tech companies—have done there.read more

The China that Obama visited is quite different from the underdeveloped China that President Nixon encountered in 1972 or the China that greeted Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush on their visits.read more

Oct. 1 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a bittersweet milepost.read more

The Chinese have very skillfully used the September 11 attacks to play off fears of Islamic terrorism in the West to discredit the entire Uighur movement. But unrest among its ethnic minorities is just a tiny share of the worries of the Chinese government.read more

I remember the crackdown at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, like it was yesterday, though it’s now been 20 years since the Chinese government crushed the student pro-democracy movement.read more

Unless there is a change in the fundamental nature of the Chinese dictatorship, Tibet will quite certainly languish in its current state.read more

African-Americans are greeting the Beijing Olympics with a deafening silence when they should be denouncing the racial injustice of China’s support for Sudan.read more