US dominance of international affairs is becoming increasingly archaic, asserts Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rather than a multipolar model of states balancing power, Haass sees the 21st century segueing into a nonpolar international system, where the United States...
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Since the advent of the commercial internet more than a decade ago, the US has overseen the administration of that global resource. Now, however, alternatives to the internet are emerging in other nations—a development that is in part a reaction to US control. As other nations push for a greater...
More than a decade after the Internet became available for commercial use, other countries and organizations are erecting rivals to it -- raising fears that global interconnectivity will be diminished.
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Growing tensions in East Asia over aggressive postures from China may stem from a lack of coordination among government factions rather than concerted policy. But that is hardly reassuring, argues Terry McCarthy. The country lacks strong leadership that can control factions competing to be most...
LOS ANGELES: The growing tension in East Asia over China’s aggressive claims to the region’s oil-rich waters – now delineated on maps in Chinese passports – may suggest a meticulously calculated plan by Beijing to propel the country to superpower...
Values are a uniting force around the globe, slowly replacing an era of industry and economics, and soft power is more enticing than hard power for a global audience. National leaders may try to set new conditions for universal standards of justice, known as the moral high ground, but they can...
Many voices, one world: California Governor Jerry Brown meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in solidarity for the Paris agreement on climate change, and disparate voices in Britain oppose Brexit
SINGAPORE: The world is moving into the era of...
The world has more than 70,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19. All but a few hundred are in China. The emergence and rapid spread of the new coronavirus, in the same family as the common cold, has alarmed public health officials. Authorities apply a range of controls: Quarantines separate those...
The number of NGOs continues to multiply worldwide, and competition for funding is intense. US-based foundations that contribute to international endeavors tend to promote human rights and democracy. But recipient programs in China are tightly monitored and controlled by the government, explains...
Top-down help: Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu (left) shakes hands with Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while signing an agreement on tuberculosis prevention and treatment
HONG KONG: Since the end of the Cold War...
Political turmoil in Cambodia – with the opposition challenging 2013 election results and demanding that Prime Minister Hun Sen step down – is having an effect on the country’s foreign relations. “The truth is, even if his party manages to win the next elections, Hun Sen will have to continue to...
Shifting alliance? Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, left), is welcomed to Hanoi by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (top); Hun Sen warming to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
WASHINGTON: Cambodia’s foreign relations map has undergone...
India's Muslims represent 15 percent of the nation's population, the world's third largest group in any nation after Indonesia and Pakistan. Extremist groups like the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the Haqqani network increasingly view India as a target, notes author and...
India’s terror threat growing: Al-Qaeda chief Ayaman al Zawahiri appointed head of a new outfit to attack India (top); Mumbai’s iconic Taj Palace hotel after Pakistan-based Lashkar-e- Taiba’s attack on November 26, 2008
NEW DELHI: On October 2,...
