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Byline: Robert Marquand Some 25 years after I first met him, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands convicted on 10 genocide and war crimes charges for his role in [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Andrei Lankov is a Russian-born specialist and writer on North Korea who lives and teaches in Seoul. He was at Harvard University this week where The Monitor [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand In the wake of North Korea's satellite launch on Sunday, the United States is - once again - steadily pressuring China to force Pyongyang to end its [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Days after authorities plunked China's most prominent Protestant leader, Joseph Gu, into an isolated 'black jail,' police in the same eastern coastal province of Zhejiang have detained [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand East Asia seems likely to continue as an economic dynamo in 2016, analysts say, but North Korea and Taiwan present a new set of challenges in the [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand In the 'The Rebel of Rangoon,' Delphine Schrank seeks to broaden awareness of the burgeoning civil society forces in Myanmar (Burma) by painting a vivid picture of [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Emotional protests in Taiwan over new history textbooks that students claim will 'brainwash' them with 'China-centric' views are actually more about the future than the past, analysts [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand The sweeping arrest in recent days of more than 100 human rights lawyers across China and the state's depiction in public of them as 'troublemakers' represents a [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Aung San Suu Kyi's arrival in Beijing for high-level talks appears to mark her transformation from opposition icon and Nobel laureate, to pragmatic Asian politician and stateswoman. [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand A group of Protestant churches in China's Zhejiang Province are staging an unusual tryst with local authorities who have knocked down the cross from atop their churches: [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Amid claims and counterclaims between North Korea and the Pentagon about whether the regime can miniaturize nuclear weapons to fit atop a missile, North Korea has scotched [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand President Park Geon-hye is a living witness to Korea's dramatic modern history. Her father presided as dictator of the country for 18 years. She was born during [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Henry Paulson's ties to China date back 25 years and span more than 100 visits. As chairman of Goldman Sachs and as US Treasury Secretary during the [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand 'About 20 percent of girls are good ... housekeeping and housework are for girls.' The quote from a BBC documentary on a notorious 2012 New Delhi gang [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Prospective Communist Party members in the region of China where Christianity is growing the fastest must now renounce religious belief, while current party members must write letters [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Beijing's leaders continue to build defenses against the spread of Western ideas in ways that partly echo China's self-imposed isolation of the 1960s, while also pushing a [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Chinese officials in Guangdong were called out in state media today for illegally consuming a giant endangered salamander in a lavish banquet costing more than $1,000 in [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand For an international media unfamiliar with Europe's recent history of publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, the furor that Charlie Hebdo and other outlets have stirred up [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand As Charlie Hebdo prepares its first post-massacre edition to run Wednesday - with an image of the prophet saying 'Je suis Charlie' on the cover - the [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Bob Fu grew up poor, the son of beggars. But he was bright and became a model communist boy - a good student and a good speaker [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand There's nothing secret about Chongyi Church, one of the largest in China. Its lighted steeple and giant cross penetrate the night sky of Hangzhou, the capital of [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand The release by the North Korean regime of US citizen Jeffrey Fowle appears to be at least a minimal move toward some kind of engagement by young [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Hong Kong's chief executive CY Leung broke a long silence today, saying he is happy to talk with student protest leaders next week, but that they may [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand With a speed and toughness not imagined when he took China's top job as head of the Communist Party, President Xi Jinping has not only consolidated power [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille had hoped to meet the Dalai Lama along with other Nobel laureates at a special summit in her city. Cape Town, [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Hong Kong protest leaders rallied their forces Sunday night ahead of an expected civil disobedience to block downtown traffic - after China's leaders officially said that Asia's [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand With Beijing signaling it is unlikely to allow the direct democracy in Hong Kong that many here say is overdue, protesters may 'occupy' and block parts of [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand The closing of an independent film festival on the outskirts of Beijing before it ever opened adds to an intensified campaign in China against activity not considered [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Washington's protest over a Chinese fighter jet that confronted a US jet by making three close passes was dismissed flatly this weekend by a Chinese defense official [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand For filmmaker Hu Jie, telling the truth about China's Great Famine is a sacred duty, however much it flies in the face of government censorship and public [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Japan's atrocities in Asia from 1933 to 1945 as it unleashed modern warfare and a racist colonial aggression were horrific and well documented. The Japanese killed a [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand European political expression on matters Israel-Palestine is vastly different in scope and content than here in the US, certainly compared to what one hears when listening to [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand A little noticed official directive in New Delhi by the new Modi government compels that Hindi language be used more prominently than English on You Tube, Twitter, [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Some 15 senior Nigerian military officers, including 10 generals, are under arrest for allegedly aiding and abetting Boko Haram extremists who have spread chaos and fear in [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand A day after US President Barack Obama singled out the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram in his keystone West Point speech, the president of Nigeria vowed to [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Boko Haram is one of Africa's most brutal insurgent groups. Its bloody rampages even earn negative ratings from some wings of Al Qaeda and from radical militants [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand If Julius Malema's rise as a national political figure is marked by a single event, it is one that happened Aug. 16, 2012, in a bleak mining [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand For 20 years, South Africa has been ruled by the ANC, Nelson Mandela's party of liberation. Yet ahead of a May 7 election, the ANC is awash [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Mr. Schell is director of the Asia Society's US-China program. His engagement with the Middle Kingdom spans a lifetime and 10 books. The most recent is 'Wealth [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand For most of the Ukrainian crisis, Germany, the country with perhaps the most strategic depth in Russia in terms of diplomatic and commercial capital, has been silent. [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand When it comes to African statistics - handle with care. They aren't reliable, says Canadian economist Morten Jerven. His 2013 book, 'Poor Numbers,' has hit the edifice [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Fears of a genocide in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been voiced increasingly since a coup last spring by Seleka, a loose coalition of mostly Muslim [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand A roundup of global reports With sporadic fighting still reported in South Sudan despite a ceasefire, rebel leader Riek Machar today called for the release of the [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand After 35 years as a judge in Australia, Michael Kirby had heard so many wrenching cases that he found his heart hardening. Yet as head of the [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Since taking control of the world's most secretive state in 2011, North Korea's Kim Jong-un has yet to meet any world leaders. Eric Schmidt of Google made [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand Nelson Mandela's role in ending a deeply rooted system of forced segregation without violence or civil war made him one of few living figures with the moral [...]