As a longtime Hawaii resident, I have always wondered how the former President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was so ineffective when it came to foreign policy matters. His efforts to right the wrong ...
The Background Xinjiang, a province of northwestern China, accounts for 640,000 square miles, equal to two-thirds the size of continental Europe. It is China’s largest region, but mostly desert, and produces a fifth of the ...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6 percent more than the $704 billion enacted under Trump’s administration. ...
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“Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and Road, connecting not only westward to West Asia, Europe, the Red Sea, and Africa, but also southward to the Indian ...
For a president who promised a new era of American diplomacy, this has been a dreadful start. President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few ...
On March 22, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the ...
On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President Joe Biden, met for a virtual meeting ...
Both pro- and anti-war voices have stated that the U.S. is on the cusp of entering a second Cold War, and a new Gallup poll suggests that the groundwork for such a conflict has already ...
NATO’s failure to seriously examine its own role in what it euphemistically calls “uncertain times” should therefore be more alarming to Americans and Europeans than its one-sided criticisms of Russia and China, whose contributions to ...
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) ...
Modern capitalism began in England in the 17th century and spread eventually throughout the world. Its particular evolution produced a global economy organized around centers and a periphery (colonized economically and often politically as well). ...
Instead of opening doors for American big business or supporting America’s diplomatic position in the world, the U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize ...
Much will certainly change in the world of U.S. foreign policy when Joe Biden enters the White House. There will be a more measured tone, and less reliance upon Twitter to announce U.S. policy. Trump ...
In mid-January 2020, 800 people gathered at Mexico’s Ministry of Economy to celebrate “China Day” with a seminar on Chinese-Mexican relations. Mexico’s Minister of Economy Graciela Márquez Colín, who has a PhD in economic history from Harvard ...
Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled “To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy” and “If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The ...
“The Democrats are trying to make this a referendum on Donald Trump, not his policies, not the issues, but on Donald Trump himself.” As a celebrity, President Donald Trump has been forced to endure critics ...
“The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable.” (Caitlin Johnstone) “The aim of ...
The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet. Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election ...
“The order to close the consulate, one of six China operates in the US in addition to its Washington embassy, came directly from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.” In the latest escalation of tensions with ...
Pompeo’s assertion that Hong Kong no longer deserves special treatment could have wide-ranging economic effects for both states, depending on how Trump decides to proceed. Since the British government divested itself of Hong Kong in ...
On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson—the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command—told the U.S. Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that runs from California to Japan and down ...
The U.S. President Donald Trump has tied himself and onlookers in knots by his alternating encomiums for and diatribes against China over COVID-19 in the recent weeks. Only he can cut the Gordian knot, and ...
Reuters was informed on Monday of an internal report circulated within the upper echelons of Beijing that describes the geopolitical repercussions China may face from the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters was informed on Monday of an ...
“These things are happening daily — it’s getting a lot more dangerous,” Eddie Song told NBC News after he and his wife were told by a man that Asians caused coronavirus. With the competition out ...
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread. On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to ...
As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both worlds” predicament: daily life and much of the U.S. economy is ...
In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Dr. Tedros ...
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. On March 25, the foreign ministers of the G7 states failed to release a ...
“One has to wonder how long China would have kept up their false narratives if not for whistle-blowing medical professionals and personal accounts of citizens on the ground in Wuhan.” Americans are often quick to ...
The Education Department called American universities “multi-billion dollar, multinational enterprises using opaque foundations, foreign campuses, and other sophisticated legal structures to generate revenue.” The US Department of Education launched investigations into Harvard and Yale over ...
SARS, Ebola, Avian Influenza, Dengue Fever, and Rabies are some of the world’s most deadly viruses. The New Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was allegedly first identified in a seafood market that also sells other animals such as ...
The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may ...
“We learned a bitter lesson in 2003, and we do not want that to happen again.“ A new illness is making its rounds in China and while it has caused no known deaths, memories of ...
Less than two weeks prior to the U.S.’ controversial killing of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani, Iran joined Russia and China for four days of joint naval exercises. In the wake of the assassination of Iranian ...
The United States’ heavy-handed approach toward sanctions may have consequences far more severe than the US is prepared for. As Iran is inching ever closer to renege on the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal ...
When Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism took power in 2006, the government immediately sought to undo decades of theft by transnational mining firms. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup ...
The NBA is being accused of prioritizing profit over human rights issues after a tweet by NBA general manager Daryl Morey angered Chinese government officials. The NBA is facing criticism for apologizing to China for ...
With impeachment hearings swirling around U.S. President Trump, youth environmentalists scolding adults for failing to address climate change and a multitude of clashes between nations, the 74th UNGA offered plenty of highlights. On September 30, ...
“Russia has traditionally considered Central Asia, including Tajikistan, as its sphere of political-military influence.” Despite being engaged in an ongoing struggle for influence in Central Asia, Russia joined China and a handful of other Asian ...
Around 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslims were determined “untrustworthy” by Chinese officials and scheduled for detention and reeducation in a massive internment camp system. (By Darren Byler, The Conversation) The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ...
While the full withdrawal of the extradition bill that sparked record-breaking protests across Hong Kong is highly significant, many activists still condemn it as “too little, too late.” “Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has said ...
Amid a trade war with China, the U.S. has conducted its first joint military exercise with ASEAN nations in the coveted South China Sea. On Monday, Sept. 2, the U.S. and 10 ASEAN member countries ...
An update to Telegram, planned for release over the next few days, will allow protesters to prevent mainland Chinese and Hong Kong authorities from discovering their identities in the app’s large group chats. “Telegram, a ...
“It’s difficult at this stage to see how there can be a deal or at least a good deal.” New tariffs on more than $110 billion in Chinese imports took effect Sunday, a sharp escalation ...
Since January, Idlib has been administered by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance, which is led by extremists from Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate. The Chinese envoy to the conflict in Syria, Xie Xiaoyan voiced on Tuesday ...
“There isn’t neutral, reliable media that can build a bridge between the two sides and win the trust of both.” As Hong Kong protests against a controversial extradition bill have entered the twelfth week, misleading ...
“The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.” President Donald Trump privately expressed interest in buying Greenland, the world’s largest island, to White House aides and advisers, as the ...
“The yield curves are all crying timber that a recession is almost a reality, and investors are tripping over themselves to get out of the way.” The U.S. stock market plunged to its worst day ...
As each day passes, Kashmir resembles the West Bank. On August 5, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Indian Parliament. The bill divides the Indian State into ...
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