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Red Lines, Taiwan, and the UK Foreign Secretary Visit to Beijing

By | September 04, 2023

Adam Cathcart unpicks Chinese reponses to a British diplomatic delegation, and the eruption around a UK House of Commons committee’s reframing of Taiwan sovereignty.

Bridges, Anti-Corruption, and Minerals: Sino-North Korean Borderland News

By | May 25, 2023

Chinese Communist Party cadre in the border region with North Korea have got a lot on their plates: discipline and development. Plus a look at trade in Dandong.

North Korean Missile Tests and Northeast Asia’s Evolving Security Architecture

By | April 05, 2023

Sino-NK pits North Korea’s missile bonanza against US-South Korean drills and a more muscular Japan.

UK-Japan Relations, Taiwan Troubles, and the Truss Tokyo Speech

By | February 22, 2023

A speech by failed Prime Minister Liz Truss has received ample news coverage. But what does it tell us about the UK’s friends and entanglements in East Asia?

Hunger, Ethnic Affinity, and Exodus: Jaeeun Kim on Chinese Koreans during the Great Leap Forward

By | October 24, 2022

To what extent did Chinese Koreans in Yanbian in the 1950s and 60s turn to North Korea out of necessity?