Peter Beck, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, published an op-ed analyzing the unfortunate recent suicide of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun.  The article, "Confronting the 'republic of suicides,'" appeared in the Korea Herald.

There is an all-too-common practice in Washington punditry of attributing strategic intentions to other countries without any apparent evidence.  A recent example is the column by Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, “What to Do About North Korea.”  

An encounter between the  USNS Victorious and Chinese trawlers in the Yellow Sea marks the fifth such incident within two months, China Post reports.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman asserted that "a couple of Chinese fishing vessels maneuvered close to the Victorious in what was an unsafe manner.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu countered, "The fact is that the USNS Victorious conducted activities in China's exclusive economic zone in the Yellow Sea without China's permission. China has expressed concern over this issue. We demand that the United States take effective measures to prevent similar acts from happening."

In an open letter to the China Daily while on a trip to China last February, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari described the Sino-Pakistan relationship thusly: 

Perhaps no relationship between two sovereign states is as unique and durable as that between Pakistan and China.

The round of political protests in Bangkok following the violent shut-down of the ASEAN-Plus-Three meeting have abated after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva issued an emergency decree, which is still in effect.

I have been teaching a class called “The Global Marketplace” this semester, but often I begin class by stating, “Welcome back to `The Global Meltdown’ class.”  Instead of studying about rising trade and investment and economic integration, we discuss deglobalization and the prospects for a global depression. 

"Max" Yu Tsung-chi, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, published an editorial entitled "China Can Use Strategic Reassurance" in the Taipei Times.

Kim Jong-un, the 25-year-old youngest son of dictator Kim Jong-il, is the likely heir to North Korea's police state, according to reports emerging from the Korean peninsula.

"Max" Yu Tsung-chi, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has published an editorial entitled "The Shift in China’s Taiwan Policy" in today's Taipei Times.

The Atlantic Council is pleased to release its Final Report of its three-year project on U.S. policy toward North Korea. This report makes clear that unless President Obama adopts a new strategy of seeking a comprehensive settlement in Korea, the U.S. is unlikely to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear program.