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Even Pyongyang's friends have proved fickle. Last week, South Korean newspapers reported that China, the North's closest ally, largest trading partner and aid donor, had frozen North Korean assets held in the Macau branch of the Bank of China. Beijing's clampdown, which took place last year, followed...
Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement has found a new?and formidable?crusader. Three years on from the 500,000-strong march of July 1, 2003 that helped oust unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the campaign is struggling to stay relevant. With the economy booming and Beijing ruling out...
Chan has already succeeded in putting democracy back in the headlines. "For some Hong Kong people her appearance adds to the credence of universal suffrage," says Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ma Ngok. "More and more people are at least verbally supportive." Chief Executive Donald Tsang has even...
"This is tougher language than [North Korea] has ever heard publicly from either Moscow or Beijing, and the language about cooperation on stopping missile trade will significantly help Administration efforts to interdict North Korea shipments of weapons and materials around the world." Referring to China's surprising "yes" vote on...
In the long run, the failure to find a meaningful deterrent for North Korean provocations may mean Kim will become bolder in his stunts, which are geared to extort maximum aid from the countries threatened by his saber rattling. Jing Huang, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington...