Jonathan Mirsky

How Tibet Is Being Crushed—While the Dalai Lama Survives

China’s Missing Children: An Exchange

China: The Benefits of Persecution?

The Bloodthirsty Deng We Didn’t Know

Fighting False Words and Worlds

The Pope’s China Problem

The Dalai Lama has a long history of meeting with the head of the Catholic Church. Why has Pope Francis snubbed him?

Okinawa: A New View

Would the Japanese have surrendered without Hiroshima? For decades the question has lingered, as historians have challenged one of the most important American rationales for dropping the bomb.

Taking Aim at Hong Kong

As in the nights leading up to the killings in Tiananmen Square in 1989, we are watching heavily armed police in Hong Kong trying to disperse peaceful democracy protesters.

Tibet Resists

Wrong About Tiananmen

I may have been inadvertently right in May 1989 when I said China would “never be the same again” after the Tiananmen protests.

The Truth About Tiananmen

What’s New About the Empress?

China: Five Pounds of Facts

In China, Endymion Wilkinson informs us in his unparalleled collection of Chinese facts and analysis, 90 million people have the surname Wang.

The Surprising Empress

Our Hacking Government

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Money?

Western governments used to go to great lengths to say they were standing up for human rights in China. Now, trade ties with Beijing are so lucrative that Western leaders no longer need to lie: China is what it is.

Burma: Despots and Laughter

It’s hard to get a handle on Burma. In Golden Parasol, her memoir of Burma during the years in which the country went from a British colony to a military dictatorship, Wendy Law-Yone suggests why the country’s ruling class may be so difficult to understand.

An American Century in Asia

One Hour & Four Minutes with Mrs. Thatcher

Lady Thatcher and Me

Why was I invited to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral? I had never been a parliamentary journalist. But I did have a little history with Mrs. Thatcher, including four personal encounters. Here’s how they happened.