Asia & the Pacific

Negative Views of the US More Common Than Negative Views of China

While South Korea has launched a boot camp for internet addicts, don't expect any in the U.S. too soon.

Foreign Policy, Not Public Diplomacy, Mostly Determines How the World Views America

Westerners and Muslims Associate a Variety of Negative Traits With One Another

In my ongoing quest to visit as many internet cafes in China as possible, I was on the lookout last week during our visit to Urumqi (aka: Wulumuqi), a city of about 3 million along the Silk Road in the northwest corner of China.

Internet addiction in China has been described as a "severe social problem that could threaten the nation's future."

In China, the internet cafe has overtaken the workplace as the second most popular place after their own homes for internet users to go online. Most of the increase in internet café use is in rural areas.

Reports on monitoring and censorship of Chinese internet content, particularly news and blogs, are familiar to westerners. We are less familiar with editorials praising a Party official's meeting with a "netizen," wishing for a day when it was les...

And Negative Views of Musharraf Are on the Rise

Many things make living in China harder than living in the US -- breathing the air, drinking the water, driving the roads -- but here is one exception: taking a domestic air trip.