China’s officials discourage public debate about corruption, regarding it as criticism of Communist Party rule, yet some abuses of power can’t escape attention, notably those associated with Bo Xilai, the popular former party chief of Chongqing, who has received a life sentence for bribery. The...
Crime and punishment : China’s once rising star Bo Xilai given life sentence on charge of corruption (top); former Railway Minister Liu Zhijun was given a death sentence for corruption that was then suspended
NEW HAVEN: One cannot open a Chinese...
On August 7, more than a month before Ms. Benazir Bhutto announced the date of her return to Pakistan, she sat down with YaleGlobal Online editor Nayan Chanda to discuss the state of her country and why she was determined to return home. She did return as she had said she would, and on December 27...
Nayan Chanda: We are pleased to have in our studios Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, two time prime minister of Pakistan, and we are especially pleased to have her with us today at a time when Pakistan is facing a critical choice...
On September 20 – one day after committing to halt its nuclear weapons program and rejoin the Nonproliferation Treaty – the North Korean foreign ministry issued a statement essentially rescinding its position. By refusing to abandon its weapons program until it receives a civilian light-water...
Bait and switch? Despite the smiles and handshakes, North Korea withdraws its concession one day after the close of the Six-Party Talks
SEOUL: The ink had barely dried on the joint statement signed in Beijing...
Arab television coverage of the war on Iraq is not unlike many US stations: talk shows, press briefings, and video footage. The messages differ, however. On Arab TV, Americans are portrayed as aggressive and barbaric, while Arabs are heroic. Networks like Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV did not exist...
THE recent airing of gruesome pictures of American casualties and prisoners of war (POWs) has again set the American media talking about the unbridled nature of Arab television, particularly the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera...
Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq relied on mass murder, torture and chemical warfare against its own citizens. He was also the last of several Iraqi rulers who elevated the Sunni minority at the expense of the Shiite majority. During the years of repression, the Shiite sect in Iraq sought...
Fancy meeting you here! On his first official visit to Tehran, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is greeted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
LONDON: Unnoticed by most Americans, while US President George W....
India's change in status for Jammu and Kashmir, a lockdown and dividing the state into two union territories suggest a strategy toward China, argues Samanvya Hooda for the Diplomat. “Undivided Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) consists of the erstwhile Indian state of J&K, Pakistan-administered...
For international and domestic affairs, China firmly holds to the principles of national sovereignty and territorial integrity. China’s insistence that Tibet and Taiwan are part of China parallels Georgian insistence that South Ossetia and Abkhazia belong to Georgia. But the Chinese government has...
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The US Congress has inserted a provision in an appropriations act that requires greater “protection for the environment or for human rights than the bank’s current safeguards,” reports Environment News Service. The United States is the largest contributor for World Bank operations, and the measure...
Environmental and social justice groups in the United States and around the world are applauding a provision of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Act, passed by the U.S. Congress just before the Christmas recess. The measure requires the U.S. Treasury...
