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The Iraqi protestors against Americans are increasing day by day, and the U.S. enemies seem to be multiplying in Iraq. The Iraqis are not ready to accept the leadership of the U.S. government in Iraq but the United States is making every effort to rule in Iraq.

Iraq's capital city of Baghdad now has little law or order, with looters taking whatever they can from government buildings. Residents of the Baghdad slum called Saddam City are largely Shiites, who have been oppressed by Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated government for the past 30 years. Reprisal killings, perhaps even by Iranians or other outsiders, could be widespread.

Political protests in China between 1989 and 1999 have changed from those in Tiananmen Square in support of westernized democracy to those outside of the US embassy protesting the NATO bombing of a Chinese embassy during the Kosovo conflict. The chilled relations between the US and China affect economic negotiations and have infused the Chinese idealism of the 1980s with cynicism.

The Indonesian military was a major force in the events that forced Suharto to resign. Suharto finally gave in when he lost all political support. The new government headed by Suharto crony B.J. Habibie may be as unstable and ineffective at solving economic problems as the old one. Economic reforms will be the real test of Habibie's government.

U.S. intelligence seeks to correct its monitoring procedures after India's tested nuclear devices with three simultaneous 30-kiloton explosions which occurred without CIA knowledge. Economic pressure had been applied by the U.S. government, but Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee defied warnings.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan left Baghdad on Feb 22, 1998 with an agreement with Saddam Hussein that Iraq will give UNSCOM, the UN weapons-inspection team, access to all sensitive sites. The UN officials and member countries greeted Annan with cheers and applause, but some in Congress argue that President Clinton and his administration have undermined US foreign policy. The possibility of force still remains high since Saddam has a habit of breaking deals.

The behind-the-scenes story of how Kofi Annan and the Americans shaped the accord that averted a war over Baghdad. Now, can the pact hold? Kofi Annan had heard stories about [...]

Ever since Operation Desert Storm, standoffs with Saddam Hussein have played out with a kind of unthreatening predictability. He huffs and puffs; the United States lobs a few cruise missiles [...]

At a windswept grave outside Shanghai, villagers still gossip about the day D.H. Tung came home. In 1990, more than four decades after the future leader of Hong Kong sailed [...]

IF THERE WAS A SINGLE moment when Madeleine Albright took her place in the Old Boys' Club, it came in March 1998. She was throwing a party for the new [...]

A LIGTHOUSE KEEPER ON A LONELY coastal headland may have been the only civilian witness to the event. Shortly after midnight, at his post on Taiwan's northeastern tip, Su Teh-tsun [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Pastor Bob Fu knows about life on the run. Back in 1996, when he and his wife lived in Beijing, they spent two months behind bars because [...]

According to an internal survey by China's Communist Party, corrupt officials and their spouses are second on the list of citizens' grievances, after abusive police officers. The relatives of top leaders--frequently referred to as 'princelings'--can accumulate vast wealth from the privatization of state assets and poorly regulated financial markets.

This article examines China's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Relevant points include Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's warning the US that China seeks good relations but will not tolerate the separation of Taiwan.

Ten years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, Chinese protestors have taken to the streets with the same slogans, but this time 'Blood for Blood' is directed toward US-led NATO forces who claim to have accidentally dropped a bomb on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The Chinese government provided buses and permits for the protesters and President Jiang Zemin praised the anti-American demonstrations.

A 700-page report given to the US Congress by Congressman Christopher Cox details a 20-year-long spying campaign by the Chinese to steal US information on making nuclear warheads and satellites. The report advises US conduct surprise inspections to investigate whether China has been diverting computers from civilians for military purposes. Protection of sensitive technology has already led to the rejection of several trade deals between the US and China.

Chinese officials are concerned about the many couples who hope to have a child just after midnight on Jan 1, 2000. Promoters have been advertising gifts for the infants who are born first in the new millennium. Officials fear a surge in births will strain medical services, eventually crowd schools, and aggravate China's population problem. China's population increases annually by 13 mil.

Each day in Iraq, bodyguards knock on the front doors of more than a half-dozen homes. Then they announce: 'You'll have a guest tonight.' They allow the startled residents a [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A top diplomat on a tough assignment. Wang Yi is urbane, multilingual, pragmatic, and, when needed, a wily negotiator. In short: he is everything a top diplomat [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Car ownership is out of control. So is pollution. 'Killer smog' has overtaken the Chinese capital. Authorities blamed the shockingly high pollution levels--the worst since records began [...]

Last week's summit, dominated by the debate on human rights, demonstrates just how far apart Washington and Beijing remain on key issues IT BEGAN, AS POSTSUMMIT PRESS conferences are apt [...]

At next week's summit, the Chinese president is determined to make America love him JIANG ZEMIN IS CURSED BY HIS cue cards. Under their spell he sounds like the Soviet-trained [...]

The early line on Albright: a secretary with great style, less substance. Now the Mideast looms. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is known for meetings as long and [...]

BY THE TIME THE flight to Hong Kong had reached 30,000 feet, Jerry Stuchiner's right eye bad stopped its nervous twitching. The 45-year-old officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China's fabled Mogao Grottoes turn to digital tourism. Among China's greatest art treasures are the Buddhist caves near Dunhuang, a Gobi Desert oasis on the fabled Silk [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu And how holograms can help. among china's greatest art treasures are the Buddhist caves near Dunhuang, an oasis on the fabled Silk Road that once linked China [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A glamorous spouse shrinks from the limelight. For proof of how weird political culture can be in China when compared with the West, consider this: in the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A love affair culminates in the Galaxy SOHO. with the benefit of hindsight, Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid's story about her first visit to China sounds like a [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Political uncertainty roils the Chinese military. 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,' Mao Zedong once famously said. Though China's post-Mao leaders have struggled [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Mo Yan and the magical realism of Weibo. As China prepares for its once-in-a-decade political transition, propaganda just isn't what it used to be. In the bad [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Can Beijing's incoming leaders resolve Tibet's crisis and stop the spate of fiery suicides? Students of Buddhist history and literature know well the ancient fables about Buddha's [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Can a new president in China bring much-needed reforms? Within weeks Hu Jintao is expected to kick off a succession process that will end his tenure as [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China remains divided over reviving its ancient sage. In Tiananmen Square last year, when the stolid National Museum of China reopened its doors following a costly renovation, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A bribery probe casts a spotlight on an ancient Chinese term. A strange mix of glitz and sleaze, Macau is the only city in China where gambling [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu In China, crooked governance takes its toll. Nearly a decade ago, Liu Zhijun became China's railway minister with dreams of leapfrogging ahead of the world by building [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China sends a woman to the final frontier. Chinese Air Force Maj. Liu Yang, 33, made history June 16, when she became her country's first female astronaut [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Meet our man in Beijing--the calm in the China storm. The American ambassador Gary Locke was at an afternoon meeting in Beijing, away from his office at [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The true story of a dissident's life-and daring escape. As my longtime friend, the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, recounted his daring escape, I joked to him that [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Hong Kong's new headman. Is he or isn't he? Leung Chun-ying--the new chief executive-elect of Hong Kong--wooed crowds on the campaign trail with his charisma, his champion-of-the-poor [...]

Byline: Melinda LiuChina's communist party is about to undergo its biggest shakeup ever. Meet Xi Jinping, the go-getter who will lead Beijing's new political generation.When U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China's 'red restaurants' turn the Cultural Revolution into dinner theater. It's a typical Saturday night at the Red Scene restaurant, which is packed with well-to-do Chinese diners. [...]

You're Hired! When Lobsang Sangay was sworn in as the next prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile last week to take over the Dalai Lama's political duties, it marked a [...]

To those conditioned to think that a beautiful young woman married to a multibillionaire twice her age could be motivated only by money, Wendi Deng Murdoch--as the world now knows--has [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The City of Dali is a traveler's Dream: a taste of old China in an idyllic setting. But is it destined to be ruined by tourism? For [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The City of Dali is a traveler's Dream: a taste of old china in an idyllic setting. But is it destined to be ruined by tourism? For [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu And Isaac Stone Fish Artist Ai WeiWei is freed. But China continues its harshest crackdown on political dissidents in decades. It was his most closely watched performance, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Lisa Movius in Shanghai The Chinese repressed personal style during the Mao Years. Now they're ready to express themselves with elan. When Angelica Cheung was growing [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Jin Xing was once a man and a soldier. Then he had a sex-change operation, and became a mother and one of China's premier dancers. Jin Xing, [...]