KinMing Liu contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2006, writing about East Asian affairs with a focus on China and Taiwan. His pieces covered topics including Chinese media, cross-strait politics, and cultural subjects.
READING THE PRESS IN China, one would never know that the Communist state has diplomatic relations with Israel. A sampling of the coverage from China's tightly-controlled newspapers on Israel's recent war against Hezbollah can lead to only one conclusion: Beijing is no friend of the Jewish state.
NOW THAT JUNICHIRO Koizumi has committed the ultimate offense of visiting the Yasukuni Shrine on August 15th--the 61st anniversary of the end of World War II--what is "big" China going to do with an increasingly disobedient "little" Japan? Probably not much, except repeating the same old empty…
IF AN ALIEN from Mars were to read only Chinese newspapers during a visit to planet Earth, he could be forgiven for believing that Japan was this planet's evil empire and Junichiro Koizumi its most evil man. Beijing has repeatedly blamed Koizumi for damaging relations between the two Asian powers…
Members of the "Taiwan Haters Club" must be truly dismayed. When Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian formally announced the scrapping of the National Unification Council (NUC) on Monday, these supreme panda huggers were, with good reason, expecting the Taiwanese "troublemakers" to be lambasted by the…