With supreme leader Kim Jong Un looking on, the foreign minister smashed a bottle of champagne against the hull of North Korea’s latest nuclear submarine, prompting the crowd of sailors and factory workers to erupt in thunderous cheers and applause.
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For years, Chinese criminal organizations have been setting up shop across Southeast Asia, built on the proliferation of Chinese-dominated Special Economic Zones like Boten in Laos, Shwe Kokko in Myanmar, or the casinos in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville.&nbs…

In late July, a group of Chinese government officials and academics met in Urumqi to discuss how Xinjiang was implementing a national plan to “Sinicize” Islam. 
The officials did not bring up the religious sites China has demolished, or the Islami…

Chinese authorities have barred Tibetans from attending a key Buddhist event called the Kalachakra out of fear that the gathering of more than 100,000 people could pose a threat to the government, according to Tibetans in the region.

The move to contr…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met at a spaceport in Russia’s Far East in a summit seen as an effort by Pyongyang and Moscow to cement their ties in the face of economic sanctions and ostracism by the West. K…