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Sun Jianli emerged from a back room of his home clutching a small package containing five three-foot-long tresses of jet-black human hair, known in these parts as "people fur.''

China's imperial thinking in Xinjiang

Expected changes to the Chinese Constitution would remove the two-term limit on the presidency of Xi Jinping

In his eyes, the West remains a necessary opponent and without an America intent on overturning China’s one-party state, the Communist party loses its reason for being

The Japanese prime minister has matured and wisely avoided putting all his eggs in the American basket

As tensions rise in Asia, Tokyo is going to need to do more — both for itself and for its American friends

With a weakening of US influence, countries in Asia are compelled to hedge their bets against Beijing

A nuclear North Korea complicates US calculations more than it does in China