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Submarine Sanctuary: Why China Is Determined to Establish Dominance Over South China Sea

September 29, 2016
China is expanding reefs and rocks in the South China Sea and installing military equipment. “Establishing dominance of the semi-closed South China Sea is but the first essential step in achieving China’s blue water ambitions, which Washington is unlikely to support,” explains Nayan Chanda,...

Go Back to RCEP: Times of India

November 18, 2019
As strong emerging economies, India and China understand smaller Asian markets. For example, India manufactures more than 90 percent of the three-wheel auto rickshaws sold in 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Despite such success and high expectations for the Modi government, India resists...

Chinese Language Newspapers in Australia

July 13, 2016
China controls the Chinese-language media in Australia – and also in other nations – in subtle and explicit ways. Editors that don’t comply with guidelines from the Chinese government and Communist Party can expect pulled advertising or reporters blocked from public events. Chinese firms purchase...

China-India Border Standoff: CBS

May 29, 2020
China and India move troops to a disputed border, and the US president offered to mediate. “Thousands of Chinese troops have reportedly moved into an area along the eastern Ladakh border, which India considers its territory,” reports CBS News. The two nations share a border that is about 3,400...

When Tragedy Trumps Borders

January 10, 2005
The United Nations, throughout its 60 years, has never seen a tragedy on par with the South Asian tsunami. This astonishing display of nature's furor rendered political borders insignificant, and the overwhelmingly sympathetic international response has revealed the strength of global...

CDC Begins Work on Vaccine for China Flu

April 8, 2013
US researchers are developing a vaccine to block H7N9 flu that’s killed six in China. China reports that “No cases of human-to-human transmission have been confirmed, even though China’s disease control agency has traced hundreds of people who had contact with the 14 known cases,” report Donald G...

Vanguard: Earth Loses a Statesman – Kofi Annan

August 21, 2018
The world is mourning the death of Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. “Annan was not the first person nor the only African to have headed the global body, but his ability to lead and inspire endeared him to the world,” writes Charles Kumolo for...

Chaos and US Standing: Times of India

February 11, 2019
Donald Trump blasted policies of his predecessors as foolish. Yet the president fuels uncertainty by abruptly changing longstanding policies and obsessing on quick fixes, ranging from support for a coal industry and rejection of climate change as a threat to blaming illegal immigration for crime...
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