(3 February 2012) — It may not be as historic as Rosa Parks – but for Asia, it could be a start. Parks sat at the front of the bus, defying Alabama segregation laws and helping launch the civil rights movement, but she always said that she was just tired from her housekeeping job and needed to sit down.

(20 January 2012) — Questions of political reform in Asia tend to be angled through the prism of China. And it is valid — democracy in China would be the story of the Asian century.

(16 December 2011) — An interesting political concept in China proposes that the overall power of a nation-state can be quantitatively measured using an index called the Comprehensive National Power (CNP).