Search results for: S. Frederick Starr

…While China is actively seeking to diversify energy routes to reduce its dependence on the Straits of Malacca, the strategic waterway still remains a safer bet than other untested…

…Steps in the right direction When President Obama became the first American president to visit Hiroshima in May this year, some thought that the gesture should be reciprocated. Now,…

…Although many have cried foul over human rights abuses in North Korea, few took up the cause when its citizens suffered from a natural disaster earlier this year. After…

…Lars Vargö puts into context Japan’s succession issue after Emperor Akihito’s “abdication speech” last week. On August 9, in only his second ever televised address, the Japanese Emperor Akihito…

…McGibbon had a reluctant appointment to keep. Scheduled for 10pm in a North Belfast alleyway, he arrived to receive his punishment: three bullets fired into his legs, one of which…

…Maria Rosaria Coduti looks back at North Korea’s Party Congress last month and tries to distill what we learnt from it. The 7th Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Congress…