Asian tigers Hong Kong after 1997: The rise of the anti-mainland movement March 20, 2018 1 Written by Alvin Y. So. Hong Kong was a British colony for one-and-half century. After 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of…
East Timor Timor-Leste: Democracy Under Stress January 15, 2018 1 Written by Rui Graça Feijó. In 1974, following the 1974 Portuguese Carnation Revolution, Timor Leste was poised to end its struggle for self-determination. However, the…
Politics Catalonia, Taiwan, and the Centralising State November 2, 2017 3 Written by Ben Goren. In his recent piece, “Catalonia: How Can Taiwan Draw Lessons?”, Ian Inkster makes a number of astute observations regarding growing movements for…
Politics Catalonia: How Can Taiwan Draw Lessons? October 12, 2017 2 Written by Ian Inkster. For one political system to draw lessons from what is happening in another is a tortuous notion and a difficult practice. But…
Politics Anti-China Sentiment in Post-Handover Hong Kong June 2, 2017 1 Written by Alvin Y. So. Despite being a British colony for most of its recent history, the people of Hong Kong have always identified themselves…
Taiwan There is no Huadu March 28, 2016 0 Written by Ben Goren and Michael Turton. In his latest piece for this Blog, Thinking Taiwan Editor-in-chief J. Michael Cole argues that Beijing faces not…
China Future cross-Strait relations December 23, 2015 0 Written by Jonathan Sullivan. An academic colleague in the US working on a book about future Asian scenarios asked me to comment on China-Taiwan relations…