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But Blinken wasn’t the only senior U.S. national security official in Asia recently. While the Beijing talks grabbed all the headlines, national security adviser Jake Sullivan was in Tokyo, participating in high-level diplomatic meetings with America’s top regional partners.

A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea by Dongyoun Hwang. This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Following the movement after 1945, Hwang shows how anarchism in Korea was deradicalized and evolved into an idea for both social revolution and alternative national development, with emphasis on organizing and edu...

Who were the two sides of the civil war? Why was it fought in two phases? And who eventually came out on top? Emma Slattery Williams shares a quick guide on the 20th-century conflict that ripped a nation apart and led to the formation of the Republic of China...

The CPC initially imposed a reforming, interim stage before socialism, where private business would provide the engine to break imperial domination and industrialise — but soon Cold War realities forced them push ahead, explain CARLOS MARTINEZ

How the USSR helped the Communists seize power in China Public Domain; Russia Beyond The Bolsheviks were in at the beginning of the Communist movement in China. However, it wasn’t the followers of Mao Zedong who became the USSR’s main allies in the country. In 1949, the Communists won a decisive victory in the Chinese Civil War, defeating their implacable enemies, the Kuomintang national conservative party under Chiang Kai-shek. The Soviet Union provided no small help to th...