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America's strategic interests in Asia go hand in hand with democratic values. Not by accident, all of our formal security allies in Asia - Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand - are democracies. And events are trending further in this direction.
Ahmad Tourson spent eight years in Guantánamo as an innocent man. Then, in 2009, he was shipped off to the tiny island nation of Palau. His new situation, though, is untenable -- but the US government seems unwilling to do anything about it.
We scrape and squeal our way through the permafrosted outskirts of Urumqi. It is midwinter, half past nine at night. Nadira is putting the finishing touches to her plans for a getaway to China's southern shores.
As Chinese New Year approaches, the international community must stand ready to renew its pressure on Beijing, both to uphold the rights of its citizens but also to end the policies that are discriminating and marginalisaing Uyghurs throughout East Turkestan and China.
As the Chinese, as well as those that admire the history and traditions of the Chinese people, gear up to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Chinese government immediately went to work taking advantage of the holiday to issue its own propaganda.
I’ve been trading arguments with Alexandros Petersen and Raffaello Pantucci the last few months about whether or not China is really gaining influence in Central Asia
Calls for independent and international investigations into Chinese claims of Uyghur terrorism receive very short shrift from Beijing.