In addition to regional security issues, the TPP might be a precedent-setting attempt of the U.S. to encircle China with tough intellectual property rights regimes.

Josh Gartner and I had a fun discussion the other day, which is now available at the China Policy Pod site. It's a rather informal, and hopefully entertaining, talk about U.S.-China issues, including some recent Op/Eds that caused a stir in the blogosphere as well as the anti-China rhetoric coming out of the uninformed mouths […]

Customs officers have arrested a 52-year-old woman at the airport for trafficking 2.7kg of heroin worth $2.13 million.

Fifty-eight people were killed in traffic accidents in first 10 months of the year, with 71% of them aged 60 or above, up 5% on the same period last year.