TAIPEI ­– Two sporting legends from opposite sides of the globe. The fiercest rivals in the world’s most demanding athletic event, the Decathlon – their duel at the Rome Games in 1960 still one of the iconic moments in Olympic history. And also – unknown to many – the closest of friends, training together under […]

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At the end of July, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as well as Chinese Politburo member Li Hongzhong, as he showed off his most powerful missiles during a huge military parade in Pyongyang. But while most international attention was focused on what the visit and military display meant […]

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The deterioration in Sino-American relations in recent years has led, among many other consequences, to a dramatic drop in the size of the American press corps based in China.  For reasons that include expulsions and visa denials, the number of American journalists on the ground in China is lower than at any time in decades. […]

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With his decision to leave the hospital for final hospice care at his Plains, Georgia, home, 98-year-old Jimmy Carter has ensured his living presence during a major chunk of his memorialization as the United States’ longest-living and, post-White House, highest-achieving former president. Asia Times’ contribution is this memory, shared with our readers by former longtime […]

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Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Former CNN Beijing bureau chief Chief Mike Chinoy’s new book, Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic, tells the story of how American journalists have covered China – from the civil war of the […]

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