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Maria SiowSouth China Morning Post |
Kim Jong-un’s outreach to Moscow and the absence of greetings for Xi Jinping suggest Pyongyang is exploiting Russia’s need for support while...
Tokyo has demanded the return of its citizens abducted by North Korea over the decades but any breakthrough on the issue is unlikely.
The Chinese public who once derided North Korea as a ‘neighbourhood hooligan’ is now hailing its decision to help Russia in the Ukraine war.
Shigeru Ishiba’s ‘progressive’ views on thorny historical issues have raised hopes that ties between Japan and South Korea could improve.
China has banned overseas adoptions of locally-born children but South Korea’s international adoption programme is still going on.
Mispronounced Chinese names at the Paris Olympics have become a source of amusement for viewers around the globe.
Beijing’s support for communist insurgencies across Southeast Asia was also a major source of aggression.
By getting involved, Chinese diplomats give the impression that no slight, no matter how minor, should go unnoticed.
Singling out Vietnam and Indonesia is simply an attempt to divert attention from maritime confrontations in the disputed waterway.
Such requests rarely seem sincere when they are essentially asking other nations to act against their own strategic goals
A new survey shows rising regional acceptance of the US-Japan-Australia-India grouping that’s been derided by Beijing as an anti-China ‘tool’....
Chinese social media is rife with claims that visitors to Singapore could face penalties for singing in public, not flushing the toilet or feeding...
China recently accused Vietnam and the Philippines of forming a ‘clique’ over their South China Sea cooperation deal. It’s a term used by...
Many of Japan’s neighbours have not publicly opposed its surge in defence spending – except China.
Chinese ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian and his counterparts have come under scrutiny more than once for their controversial comments.