The North Korea non-starter
Today’s North Korea is not Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The latter was inspected by the UN on multiple occasions with the full knowledge of the regime that no doomsday weapons would be uncovered. The...
Category: Asia
How Donald can solve the North Korea Crisis
Are you worried about North Korea nuking you in your sleep? Is Weird Al Yankovic’s “Christmas at Ground Zero” playing on a loop in your head these days? Never fear! The sentient...
Diplomacy, not tweets, will solve the North Korea crisis
The rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea appears to signal we are on the march to a regional conflict. North Korea says it is ready to “teach the U.S. a severe lesson” and that...
Hong Kong Isn’t China: After 20 Years Hong Kong is Ready for Democracy
When I moved back to Hong Kong, I was taken aback by how many people asked, “What is it like to live in China?” Well-meaning friends and acquaintances would send me articles about life in...
I saw the end of a populist leader’s reign. It was exactly what you’d expect.
India in festival season is always riotous, but it’s a carefree sort of riotousness — firecrackers in the streets, people dancing in their best clothes, street parades, giant effigies of...
#StopSessions or run the risk of ending up like China
On December 25, 2009 Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment in China. His crime? “Inciting subversion to state power”. A human rights activist devoted to non-violence – his weapons...
India must remember its history of communal violence
The anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots that engulfed Delhi and many other cities in India after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards fell a few months...
For the last time, no, I am not going to eat your dog
Some people have asked me in earnest. “Have you ever…you know…eaten one?” Some people think they’re the first special snowflake to ever make the joke. “DON’T EAT MY DOG! I see you...
#ThisIs2016 and anti-Asian racism is still everywhere
When I was in college, white guys liked to bow at me in bars. I don’t know why the bowings mainly happened in the early 2000s in St. Louis, I have yet to experience so many white guys bowing at me...
Confronting my Western privilege in Siem Reap
I saw a dog get run over in Cambodia. In the back of a tuk tuk (think “motorcycle rickshaw”), my husband worried aloud that he could see a little black puppy trying to cross the busy street up...