China has been strengthening its soft power through a strategy of promoting patriotic films, giving importance to domestic voices rather than international opinion, writes Dongyao Nie.

Statues of comfort women—monuments to Korean women who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army in World War II—continue to be a controversial topic between the Korean and Japanese communities, writes Mikayla Bean.

China constitutes, for Mexico, an example and a challenge, a problem and a solution, all at the same time, writes Luis Rubio.

While there are many reasons to distrust China, there are even more reasons to avoid blaming China because the root cause of America’s current economic anxiety has less to do with any decision made in Beijing, and much more to do with those made or not made in Washington, writes Benjamin Shobert.