There are certain obstacles that hinder China, Japan, and Korea from acquiring the vision in which the three countries can enjoy bright future. But what is the most critical one? In my opinion, that is the “history” [...]

This is a response by East Asian Student Conference of History Education (EASCHE) to a comment on a previous article entitled Grassroots Practice of Resolving Historical Issues [...]

In this article, I warn that the realist assumptions of unitary actors and state sovereignty should be applied to Malaysia only after examining her domestic political conditions. My analysis proceeds in the following order [...]

North Korea remains as one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. In recent years, thousands of North Koreans have risked their lives fleeing to nearby countries, most choosing to cross the loosely controlled border to China. Because of the political and ethnic loyalties present [...]

With the explosive growth of nations such as China on the world economic stage and the political instability in the Middle East, it is natural to closely attend to such regions, whose global import is unquestionable. It is imperative that the United States continue to [...]

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou won a landslide victory on March 22, 2008, defeating Democratic People’s Party (DPP) candidate Frank Hsieu and ending eight years of DPP rule over Taiwan. His victory has largely been attributed to [...]

In discussing the highly controversial issues regarding the WWII history of Japan and the rest of East Asia, one of the main arguments always brought up is that “Japanese kids don’t know the real history at all” [...]