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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 [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) In the countryside outside Beijing, what looks like a luxury guesthouse is rising amid fruit orchards, replete with a fitness center and [...]

***** CORRECTION: In 'Bound to the Tracks' (July 17) we incorrectly said Golmud was the capital of China's Qinghai Province. It is Xining. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Melinda [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Eve Conant in Washington) Not so long ago, you would have been courting death by trying to drive from Colombo to Kilinochchi. Now aid convoys are [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Craig Simons in Beijing, Lorien Holland in Kuala Lumpur and Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi) From the Taj Mahal to the Great Wall, the Asian landscape [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu, With Tim Culpan in Taipei The Taiwan Strait has long been at the center of a war of words. Beijing and Taipei frequently exchange statements full of [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu, John Barry and Michael Hirsh, With Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad, Mark Hosenball and Tamara Lipper in Washington and T. Trent Gegax in New York The inaugural mission [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu One of my last visits with Amal Murad Ali, almost exactly a year ago, was cut short by an explosion. She and I were huddled in the [...]

Byline: Dan Ephron, Allan Sloan, Jen Jin-Liu and Melinda Liu, Clint Witchalls, Adam Bryant, Tara Pepper, Lorraine Ali, Jeff Giles Middle East The Rise of Nasrallah Israel sometimes has a [...]

The architectural hodgepodge that is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, is testament to the country's dazzling cultural diversity. In the city center, not far from the Islamic Sharia court, is the [...]

Not long ago Hua Huiqi lived quietly with his family in a Beijing courtyard house, minding his own business. That changed when authorities forcibly evicted him and his elderly parents [...]

The Dalai Lama landed in America to the usual swirl of praise and protest. After receiving an honorary degree from UC San Francisco last Friday, he is scheduled to meet [...]

Staring at the rubble of his neighbors' row houses, Chen Guo-fang says he won't budge. Like more than a hundred residents who protested outside Shanghai's city hall last week, Chen [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu At first glance, the scene inside the presidential suite of Baghdad's Ishtar Sheraton hotel seems almost, er, presidential. Armed bodyguards, tribal leaders and hangers-on mill about as [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Hu Jintao has a trait that's rarer than his photographic memory: the more power he has, the more enigmatic he becomes. Even longtime colleagues in the Politburo [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China last week had its first orderly transfer of power since 1949--perhaps a bit too orderly. Communist Party boss Jiang Zemin, still a sprightly 76, stepped aside [...]

Becoming the leader of the People's Republic of China is all about survival. In the 53-year history of the regime, China's two pre-eminent leaders--Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping--collectively anointed no [...]

Indonesia has been viewed through a red lens lately--the red and white of its flag, hoisted proudly over a resurgent democracy; the red of the blood spilled in anger on [...]

To fully understand why Hu Jintao flees the limelight, look no farther than his clan village in Jixi, Anhui province. Slated to become the next president of China, Hu is [...]

His slicked-back hair is still ink-black, and his glasses are still as big as saucers. But insiders say Chinese President Jiang Zemin, 73, may be a changed man. Not long [...]

Last week Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri added her voice to the chorus of leaders supporting America's war against terrorism, pledging the solidarity of the world's largest Muslim country 'in this [...]

Deep in Nepal's mountainous countryside, kilometers from the nearest dirt road, locals in the village of Lung are gearing up for the next proletarian revolution. Two weeks ago thousands of [...]

The CIA did it, with help from Indian spies and other outsiders. That was the message spread last week by Nepal's Maoist insurgents to explain the massacre of the country's [...]

The massacre was the stuff of tabloid headlines: SON SLAUGHTERS FAMILY IN SPAT OVER GIRLFRIEND. Except in this case, it was nearly impossible to exaggerate the grisly crime. The setting [...]

Until recently Thomas Pury, 45, grew nutmeg and cloves on his four-acre farm on a remote island in the Moluccas, once called the Spice Islands. Like their parents before them, [...]

Indonesia's president Abdurrahman Wahid, who is nearly blind, moves among shadows. But in his mind, Wahid likes to think of high noon, when the sun shines white-hot, and it's easier [...]

The bombs were well made, and terrifyingly efficient. On the evening of Dec. 24, just as many Christians were attending church services, nearly two dozen explosions rocked 11 churches scattered [...]

Robert Gelbard is living proof that diplomacy doesn't always mean tact. Ever since he landed in Jakarta as U.S. ambassador a year ago, his outspoken style has tried the tempers [...]

China's rulers refuse to give up. They may have abandoned Mao's unworkable daydreams of pure socialism and a classless society, but they are defending to the death his central dogma: [...]

Sambuu Yondon, a retired Mongolian truck-driver, is something of an expert on disasters. Now 77, Sambuu spent 38 years trucking relief supplies to remote herders hard hit by summer drought [...]

It wasn't entirely a warm welcome. As U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen kicked off his China trip last week, a headline in the state-run China Daily screamed, U.S. a [...]

The back alleys of Kashgar are a medieval warren straight out of the tales of Tamerlane. In the tree-shaded courtyards of the desert oasis in Xinjiang province, some 200 kilometers [...]

At times last week, 'One China' almost seemed like reality in the tiny mainland village of Meizhou on China's coast. Every day thousands of religious believers jammed into an incense-choked [...]

At the Gyuto Monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas, a love both familiar and exotic was in the air. Some 60 Tibetan schoolgirls had come to be in the [...]

From here to the north, in the east of the land of snow, Is a country where divine thunder spontaneously blazes In a beautiful nomad's place with the sign of [...]

President Jiang Zemin was infuriated by news from his discipline commission. After busting smuggling rings up and down the east coast, Jiang's war on corruption had stalled on the turf [...]

From the propaganda, you might have thought Li Hongzhi was an ax murderer, or at least an incendiary figure. Over and over, Beijing's government-controlled television ran an Orwellian tape recounting [...]

Protesters plan to give Jiang a dose of America's rambunctious democracy THE EDITORIAL IN THE HARVARD Crimson begins, 'He is an evil man, leading a truly evil empire.' And that [...]

In the wake of Donorgate, Clinton is cracking down on 'dual use' exporters IF SOARING EXPORTS WERE THE HOLY grail of Bill Clinton's first-term trade strategy, then Ed McCracken fit [...]

'It's been a pretty dull week,' said a senior White House aide last Thursday. Makes you wonder, what would it take to excite those guys? It was a week when [...]

The bombs fell in belgrade, but the fallout spread all the way to Beijing. In the Chinese capital, thousands of protesters turned out Saturday, chanting 'Down with American imperialists' and [...]

NATO was having a bad day. Friday morning a stray cluster bomb hit a hospital and market in the southern Yugoslav city of Nis. Serb officials said 15 civilians had [...]

Suharto's very rich clan will still live well SUHARTO LOVES HIS COUNTRY, BUT HE LOVES HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS EVEN more. During his 32-year rule, his kids and cronies enriched [...]

By manipulating Indonesia's student protesters, the military ousted Suharto. But this revolution hasn't ended yet. HE TRIED TO INSTALL A NEW cabinet, but no one would join it. He enlisted [...]

With no break in the crash of TWA 800 and the Saudi bombings, Clinton's team plays defense THE NAME IS OPAQUE: THE COORDInator Sub Group. Its meetings are equally impenetrable, [...]

SISTER DIANNA ORTIZ, AN American nun, remembers her ordeal with such harrowing clarity that she still cannot bear the smell of cigarette smoke. In late 1989, three uniformed Guatemalan men [...]