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How Deep are Chinas Pockets?

Gordon Chang and Bill Sharp discuss just how financially solvent China is as it continues to invest and loan billions around the world, often to support its one belt, one road. Attention will also be given to the upcoming 19th Party Congress. Finally, we hear about the crisis on the Korean peninsula ThinkTech Hawaii streams […]

Is the Abe Era Over?

Hawaii Pacific University Faculty Member, Defense Contractor, and retired US Navy Intelligence Officer, Captain Carl Schuster, appears on Asia in Review with Bill Sharp to discuss Japan’s Abe era. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check […]

Are you Chinese or Taiwanese

Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, visiting scholar, Professor Evan Dawley appears on Asia in review with Bill Sharp to discuss his forthcoming book Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnic Identity at the Border of China and Japan. Dawley gives particular focus to the building of ethnic identity as opposed to national identity in the coastal city of […]

Taiwans New Southbound Policy

Natalie Tso, RTI Program Host, joins Bill Sharp on Asia in Review to discuss pension reform and labor standard legislation in the Tsai administration. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any time for […]

Chinas Conscience Liu Xiaobo

Think Tech host and Asia expert, Ray Tsuchiyama and Asia in Review host Bill Sharp discuss the passing of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any time for great […]

Asia’s Front Door: The Pacific Islands

Join Bill Sharp and Fabrizio Bozzato on Asia in Review for An update on the strategically important Pacific Islands from an Italian perspective. Special attention will be given to ongoing developments in Melanesia, Papua New Guinea elections, the Solomon Island’s relations with both and MORE. Has the US again forgotten about the Pacific islands and […]

A More Assertive Japan

In the 1980s Japan was at the zenith of its power and influence. And then came the came the 1990s and a twenty plus year of revolving door prime ministers and a fall in pre-eminence. However, Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to play a more assertive, active role in Asia […]

Will Taiwan Fight Part 2

Wendell Minnick returns to Asia in Review to discuss Taiwan’s plan to build up its national defense industry especially its plan to build an indigenous submarine and jet trainers. Some advocate that Taiwan restore conscription? is it really a good idea? Why? Would it work? Espionage in the military demands our attention. And there’s more! […]

A Naval View of the Asia Pacific

Before his retirement in January 2015, US Navy Captain (Ret.) James Kimo Fanell, was the Chief of Intelligence for US Pacific Fleet. James joins Bill Sharp on Asia in Review to share with us his thirty plus years of experience in tracking events in Asia. His opinions are highly respected and have been the substance […]

Today’s Republic of China Armed Forces

Dr. Alexander C. Huang is the Chairman of the Council on Strategic and Wargaming Studies and Professor at Tamkang University. Dr. Huang is a well connected, highly informative authority on all matters related to the Taiwan military, In addition to consulting and teaching, he writes a weekly column for Taiwan’s United Daily News.  On Asia in […]

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- Jim Tankersley
Biden’s China Tariffs Are the End of an Era for Cheap Chinese Goods

The president’s move to protect strategic manufacturing sectors from low-cost competition aims to increase jobs, but consumers might not like the costs. [...]

- Bernhard Warner, Michael J. de la Merced and Sarah Kessler
How Companies Dodge Tariffs

Protectionist trade policies are popular on both the left and right. But some economists say they’re likely to backfire. [...]

- Maya King and Katie Glueck
In His Beloved Philadelphia, Biden Faces Wariness From Black Voters

Even in the president’s favorite political stomping ground, his standing has slipped with Democrats who will be vital to a repeat victory, interviews with nearly two dozen Black voters showed. [...]

- Rick Rojas and Maya King
Biden Flipped Georgia in 2020. This Year Could Be Different.

His narrow win there in 2020 was seen as a sign of Georgia’s emergence as a battleground state. But in 2024, President Biden faces a changed landscape there. [...]

- Roger Cohen
A Would-be Assassin Stirs Europe’s Violent Ghosts

Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past. [...]

Russia could increase Ukraine attacks, says Zelensky

Moscow continues to make military gains in the Kharkiv region as Ukraine struggles with resources. [...]

Boil water notice mostly lifted in Devon

South West Water says about 2,500 homes will have to keep boiling water due to a parasite. [...]

Attacked Navalny ally will 'never give up' fight

Leonid Volkov says his fight against Vladimir Putin will never end. [...]

Unpaid carers being forced to repay £250m to DWP

One claimant unknowingly overpaid Carer's Allowance said the debts she incurred have brought 'considerable financial strain'. [...]

Thunderstorm weather warning issued by Met Office

Forecasters have warned some areas could see up to 50mm (2in) of rain and flooding on Saturday. [...]

Cologne needed a minor miracle to survive going into the last game of the season, with no guarantee that a win would be enough to save them. Instead, they collapsed [...]

President Salome Zourabichvili had earlier told DW that she would reject the contentious legislation as a "symbol." The veto, however, can be overridden by another vote in parliament. [...]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged federal "solidarity" after the western state of Saarland was hit by flash flooding and landslides. He toured some of the affected areas with the [...]

Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank had been expected to provide guarantees for the construction of a gas-processing plant that was to be operated by Gazprom. [...]

Premier Robert Fico is in a stable but serious condition after a shooting attack, Slovakia's health minister says. The suspected shooter is reported by media to be a 71-year-old former [...]

- John Helton
Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft launch is delayed again

A helium leak pushed back a planned launch to May 25. Boeing's program that would shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station has been plagued with problems. [...]

- Ron Elving
Pete McCloskey's life reminds us how politics long in the past live on in the present

McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing [...]

- The Associated Press
Dabney Coleman, who starred in '9 to 5' and 'Tootsie', dies at 92

Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," has died. [...]

- Sarah Donaldson
Ohio reviewing race-based scholarships after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. [...]

- Michael Scaturro
Other countries have better sunscreens. Here's why we can't get them in the U.S.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and we need all the protection we can get. So why is it so hard to get newer, more effective [...]

- Victoria Bisset

Canadian police used DNA testing to link Gary Allen Srery, who died in 2011, to the killing of two girls and two women in the 1970s. They say there may [...]

- Siobhán O'Grady, David Stern, Isabelle Khurshudyan

Andriy Yermak, a former lawyer and film producer who runs Volodymyr Zelensky’s wartime presidential office, is arguably the most powerful chief of staff in Ukraine’s history. [...]

- Justine McDaniel

Parents had no idea their children were being given the sleep aid at a home day care in New Hampshire, police said. [...]

- Justine McDaniel

Parents had no idea their children were being given the sleep aid at a home day care in New Hampshire, police said. [...]

- CiarÁn Fahey | AP

League champion Bayer Leverkusen has become the first team to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten [...]

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