By John Tkacik The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, held in Shanghai on October 20-21, was a glittering press spectacle with Shanghai's broad skyline a blazing neon rainbow and twenty Asia-Pacific leaders bedecked in silk brocade tunics. It was sweetness and light for economics... MORE

By Richard D. Fisher, Jr. Newspaper reports from December 3 noted that in one of its few acts of intimidation before the December 1 Taiwan elections, the People's Liberation Army Airforce (PLAAF) sent its new Sukhoi Su-30MKK fighter jets out to the midline Taiwan Strait... MORE

On December 1, voters went to the polls in Taiwan to select a new legislature, county magistrates and five mayors. It was the first national election following the opposition Democratic Progressive Party's upset victory in March 2000, which put Chen Shui-bian in the presidency and... MORE

The results of the December 1 election for Taiwan's parliament, the Legislative Yuan, undoubtedly shook Beijing almost as severely as it did that election's major loser, the once proud Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT). Ever since Chen Shui-bian's narrow victory in the March 2000 presidential... MORE

By Willy Wo-Lap Lam Jovial appearances and upbeat media reports to the contrary, President Jiang Zemin is hardly a happy man. And socioeconomic problems--particularly the adverse impact of accession to the World Trade Organization--are only the superficial reason for Jiang's disquiet. This is despite the... MORE

Ying Ma's Question & Duzhe Mei's Answer THE QUESTION I think that Mei Duzhe's "How China's Government Is Attempting to Control Chinese Media in America" in your November 21 issue overestimates the influence of the Chinese government and underestimates the willingness of Chinese to be... MORE

The U.S. Census 2000 data reveal dramatic growth over the past ten years in the Chinese American population. In these years the Chinese-American community has increased by 48 percent to over 2.4 million, making it the largest Asian ethnic group in the country. Notably, surveys... MORE

A Chinese saying best describes the risk of showing one's clear political or ideological leanings: "The bird that sticks its head out gets shot." Hu Jintao, the man who is widely expected to succeed Jiang Zemin as head of the Communist Party in 2002 and... MORE

By Wen Yu Since the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, China has suffered gravely from succession politics. During the Maoist era that ended in 1976, convulsive political tensions and struggles surrounding the succession issue had greatly damaged the relationships among the ruling elite... MORE

By Willy Wo-Lap Lam As with Taiwan elections for the past several years, President Jiang Zemin has set up a special task force of civilian and military aides to monitor developments in the run-up to the December 1 parliamentary polls on the island. Jiang, who... MORE