Many Asian countries are responding to current territorial disputes by adopting robust national-defense strategies aimed at fending off current challenges and precluding future threats. But there are few rules governing how these shifts – particularly by China, Japan, and India – take place.

Economic policies are set at the national level, where officials seek to benefit the domestic economy. But these policies are increasingly affecting other economies and the global system, giving rise to what might be called “policy externalities” – consequences that extend outside policymakers’ target environment.

South Korea's Samsung will reportedly invest USD500 million to build a new assembly and testing plant in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. According to reports in Chinese local media, the new plant is expected to start construction in January 2014, and it will be completed by the end of 2014. In 2012, Samsung invested USD7 billion in […]

The country’s cyberspace has become a riotous Wild West of discussion, mockery, information-sharing and whistleblowing

Wahaha’s Zong Qinghou is attacked by a disgruntled, knife-wielding unemployed man after refusing to offer him a job