A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.
The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.
The world is carefully watching to see if Syria’s new rulers can stabilise the country and avoid unleashing violent revenge.
Kim Seongmin was on his way to Pyongyang for certain execution when he jumped out of the window. What he did next has infuriated the North Korean leader.
Observers say Cambodia’s change in leader is just an extension of times before,where opponents were threatened with beatings,“only they are younger”.
With a nationwide blackout,a broken economy and a widely contested election result there are only so many things a leader can do to win popular support.
K-pop is blasting into North Korea once more as bizarre tactics ratchet up tensions on the peninsula. We explore what’s behind this “tit-for-tat” in an Explainer updated from earlier this year.
Donald Trump is dangerous because he takes too much of our attention. So much so,people become blind to much larger threats.
Fifty years after a coup ushered in a brutal military rule that imprisoned,disappeared,tortured or killed some 40,000 people,five former prisoners return to the scene of the crimes.
Russia is sinking deeper into the quagmire of Putinism,and there are few signs that the population is resisting the path the president is leading them down.