Collin Spears

The history of the Han Chinese - Uighur relationship will be surveyed to deduce what motivated the Guantanamo Uighurs to journey to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Further, the implications to U.S. foreign policy will be examined.

If the United States and its allies want to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, and not just temporarily allay tensions, they must call Kim Jong-Il's bluff by escalating the situation.

Out of the nine to ten million Uighurs worldwide, it is arguable that 22 of them have brought more media attention to the plight of their 8 million brothers in China by being unfortunate enough to get swept up in the American War on Terror.

While the United States is generally supportive of ASEAN, it is not in the strategic interest of the U.S. for it to be outside of an Asian economic bloc, especially one that will aid in cementing a strong Chinese leadership position in Southeast Asia.

China has been characterized as a "strategic competitor" to the U.S. This may be an accurate depiction, at least as it applies to certain aspects of the multifarious relationship, but. financially China and the U.S. have long been symbiotic.

An analysis exploring the pros and cons of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Deal.

The Sino-Russian relationship, based on mutual resentment of global Western dominance and a shared interest in Central Asian security, has had unintended consequences for Russia.

The consensus of mainstream China analysts is that the CCP is a unified entity that is destined to guide China into a new golden age where it will enjoy global superpower status. This narrative is maybe challenged with the recession.

A look at how Taiwan's identity politics has and will continue to affect, not only its internal politics during the current economic crisis, but also Cross-Straits relations.

In 1990, the controversial right-wing Governor of Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro, published "The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals". Nearly 20 years later, many Japanese are still pondering if or when Japan can "say no" to the U.S.

A befitting question for the coming decade is, "Can Sub-Saharan Africans think?" For many Westerners it would seem the answer is, "No", at least as far as Africa's relationship with China.