I felt compelled to do something, so I painted him.

Monasteries and temples are exploited as tourist attractions, while government agents try to ensure that the monks stay in line.

He shares a drawing of an Arab giving a Syrian child a pamphlet on how to protect herself from chemical weapons.

I don't want to sound pretentious saying that, but this is my drawing made on a digital pad a couple of years ago well into the 21st century, 500 years later.

The nine dotted line that China has drawn over the South China Sea may prove to be nothing but a big geopolitical millstone around China s neck.

The core territorial issue currently revolves around China s stated interest imprecisely demarcated on its 2009 nine dashed line map in almost the entire Sea.

Then he meets the yeti crab, the famous vampire squid elusive, hard to find and the Dumbo octopus, which looks so much like a cartoon in real life that really didn't have to change a thing when I drew it.

That can be achieved only with collective international will to give impetus to the resumption of direct peace negotiations on the basis of international law, including Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, and in accordance with the practical approach set out in the road map.

What makes the Himalayan incursion a powerful symbol of China s aggressive new stance in Asia is that its intruding troops have set up camp in an area that extends beyond the line of actual control (LAC) that China itself unilaterally drew when it defeated India in the 1962 Chinese initiated border war.

That open ended statement, without any clear means to achieve the goal that it announced, has done much to fuel military escalation and the rising death toll in Syria, while pushing the US repeatedly to defend its credibility against a line in the sand that it should not have drawn.