Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com As soon as large-scale street protests erupted in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in late September, Beijing has imposed a news blackout on the so-called “Umbrella Revolution” that is still unfolding on the territorial’s busy streets. Mainland-Chinese media has carried no reports on the SAR’s Occupy Central movement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines 777 confronts the world with a crisis that’s never going to end. The loss of 239 people is tragic enough, but the implications for air travel are still more frightening. The point, which nobody had believed was possible, is that a plane can […]
Sol W. Sanders A new era of increasing instability is opening in East Asia. The death of North Korean leader Kim Il-Jong is only adding another, if explosive, element to an already volatile equation: China enters a period of substantially slower economic growth, if not a crash, on the eve next autumn of a takeover […]