Do rivers and trees on Borneo have legal rights? A Southeast Asian court is asked to decide, and the answer is not as simple as it might seem. In the first, second and third installments of this story set in Southeast Asia, we met a U.S.-educated Malaysian lawyer who...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has strengthened his grip on power, with far-reaching consequences for China and the world. Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, presides over the opening ceremony of the 19th Party Congress, Beijing, 18 October 2017 (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)...
Since this installment was posted in October, this story has been published by Explorer’s Eye Press in “Exceptional Encounters: Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia”. It is available for purchase here. In the first and second installments of this...
Since this installment was posted in October, this story has been published by Explorer’s Eye Press in “Exceptional Encounters: Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia”. It is available for purchase here. This is the second installment in a five-part...
Since this installment was posted in October, this story has been published by Explorer’s Eye Press in “Exceptional Encounters: Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia”. It is available for purchase here. This is the first installment in a five-part...
Taiwan has long been a crossroads of empires and a refuge for resistance. I arrived as a flaneur, with few expectations of making local friends. The night market of Keelung City, a major port city in northeastern Taiwan (Drawing by Brendan Ross) Taiwan has long been a...
(David Schlesinger on China: “A Journey Towards Ambiguity”) By Nelson Graves Does China’s rise as an economic and military power mean an inevitable clash with the United States? Can China help defuse the nuclear threat from North Korea? And does...
State-sponsored attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya have created a humanitarian crisis and stoked worries of a prolonged insurgency that draws jihadists. A Rohingya woman arrives with her children at Kutupalong refugee camp after crossing from Myanmmar to the...
North Korea has drawn international opprobrium with its nuclear and missile tests. Can its leader, Kim Jong-un, win the respect he craves? An undated photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in an undisclosed location, released by the North Korean Central News Agency...
By David Schlesinger Pity China’s foreign policy leaders. An unpredictable, mercurial, untested, perhaps irrational leader in its neighbor, North Korea. An unpredictable, mercurial, untested, perhaps irrational leader in its major trading partner and sometime global...