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January 16, 2009

Meltdown: The Impact of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate. …

March 19, 2007

China
A strange way to go about rebalancing China’s economy…

China now exports more than it imports – a lot more.   Even most American economist are starting to recognize that the “China runs a surplus with the US but its overall trade is balanced” argument is…

May 30, 2014

China
Why Has Philanthropy Failed to Take off in China?

Last month, when Bill Gates challenged China’s rich to embrace philanthropy rather than just spend money on luxury goods, he implied a philanthropy gap existed between China and the United States. In…

August 20, 2012

China
Legendary Female Cyber Cop: What Do New ’Model Workers’ Tell Us About Chinese Cyber Policy?

There is a long tradition of the Chinese Communist Party acknowledging and honoring "model workers," selfless citizens who contribute to the building of modern China. While in the early years after t…

Sina Weibo Homepage of Gao Yuan, "The Legendary Female Cyber Cop."

November 9, 2015

Asia
Southern Asia’s Nuclear Powers

China, India, and Pakistan have relatively small but growing nuclear arms programs. This nuclear competition is raising concern because of long-simmering tensions and a lack of efforts at minimizing …

A surface-to-surface missile is launched off the eastern Indian state of Odisha, September 15, 2013.