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June 21, 2011

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Jon Huntsman, GOP Presidential Candidate

It’s official. Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China, has formally announced that he is a Republican candidate for president. As he promised, Huntsman made the announcem…

Jon Huntsman

April 15, 2015

South Korea
Korea’s Immigration Policy Backlash

Darcie Draudt is a research associate for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Late last month, the South Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family presented an open discussion tit…

confucian-rite-of-passage-multicutluralism

May 7, 2015

North Korea
Stories of Ordinary North Koreans and Human Rights

Darcie Draudt is a research associate for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last Thursday at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the U.S. delegation convened a meeting on t…

2012 north korea flooding

January 24, 2014

China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of January 24, 2014

Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia this week. 1. Report reveals that several of China’s top leaders hold trillions in offshore accounts. …

Supporters of Xu Zhiyong, one of China's most prominent rights advocates, shout slogans near a court where Xu's trial is being held, in Beijing on January 22, 2014. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Courtesy Reuters)

April 4, 2014

North Korea
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of April 4, 2014

Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. Tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula. South and North Korea exchanged artill…

Residents cover their faces as they ride a motorcycle along a street after tear gas was released by police to disperse a protest against a chemical plant project in Maoming, Guandong province, China on March 31, 2014. (Stringer/Courtesy Reuters)