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  • India: Teflon Modi Eyes FDI0

    Narendra Modi and his supporters took firm command over issues that dominated India’s 2019 election campaign, focusing on Pakistan as major challenge. Yet severe economic problems unaddressed before the election will dog the government. “The diversionary tactics may have been successful, but Modi’s resounding electoral victory now heightens expectations of economic success,” explains journalist Kunal

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  • China’s Challenge to a US-Led World Order0

    The United States and the Soviet Union, convinced that their ideologies were incompatible, engaged in a Cold War during the latter part of the 20th century. Some suggest similar hostility emerges between the United States and a fast-rising China. “Chinese leaders repeatedly stress that China remains a powerful supporter of the current order, taking action

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  • China and Saudi Arabia Converge on Pakistan0

    Pakistan received substantial US military and financial aid since 2001, and the Trump administration canceled those payments in 2018, with the president suggesting that the country doesn’t “do anything for us.” Pakistan still has support from China, an ally since 1962, and Saudi Arabia also steps forward to invest. The benefactors have two goals in

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  • US and China: From Co-Evolution to Decoupling0

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    • December 8, 2018

    Henry Kissinger secretly visited China in 1971 to restore US ties, and the Chinese have respected him since. With a trade war underway and US concerns about intellectual property theft, the relationship has soured and transformed: from co-evolution, described by Kissinger as pursuit of domestic imperatives and cooperating as possible to decoupling. “The parochial outlook

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  • Book review: China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth0

    Hugh Peyman World Scientific 2018 978-981-3231-99-3 A review by Humphrey Hawksley LONDON: Hugh Peyman makes a timely argument about how other countries could learn from the rise of China in his book China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth. To absorb the argument fully, however, readers must shelve one premise that has long been part of

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  • India’s Skillful Posturing With the US0

    • Blog
    • October 19, 2018

    Relations between the United States and India have gradually improved, but the world’s largest democracy has an independent streak as seen in two recent cases: First, India signed a multibillion deal to purchase a Russian air-defense missile system thereby risking sanctions approved by the US Congress in 2017. Second, the United States withdrew from the

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  • Pakistan’s Civil-Military Relations0

    • Blog
    • October 11, 2018

    Pakistan’s civilian government has little control over the country’s powerful army which stands out as a most trusted institution, with more than 80 percent public approval, compared to 36 percent approval for government. Weak institutions that fail to address Pakistan’s challenges have allowed the army to become more assertive, explains Riaz Hassan, research professor and

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  • China’s Crackdown on Muslims0

    • Blog
    • September 18, 2018

    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or East Turkestan as preferred by some residents, is China’s largest region. The region is home to 21 million people, most of whom are Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others who share the Muslim faith. The region accounts for less than 2 percent of China’s population, yet 21 percent of all arrests

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  • Rohingya Crisis Diminishes Aung San Suu Kyi0

    The world continues to shrug and take meaningless gestures on the highly visible Rohingya crisis a year after the Myanmar military burned villages and drove more than 700,000 minority people across the border into Bangladesh and beyond. Myanmar, insisting that the Rohingyas are not citizens, have redistributed their land and shown no genuine willingness to

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  • India: Intolerance’s Threat to Liberalism0

    Liberalism – and the values of liberty, equality, individual dignity, tolerance, and freedom from bigotry and extremism – are under siege around much of the world, including the world’s largest democracy. India inherited an appreciation for liberal values as a result of British colonialism, underscoring the paradox that a system aspiring for ideals cannot rest

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  • Trump, Kim and the China Factor0

    A summit with the US president boosted standing for North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. China, not part of the summit, advises Kim from the sidelines – China’s President Xi Jinping, in office since 2013, only agreed to meet Kim after Trump accepted the summit invitation in March. Kim has since met with Xi three times. Lowell

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  • Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea & the Strategy of Chinese Expansion0

    Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea & the Strategy of Chinese Expansion book by Humphrey Hawksley; review by Susan Froetschel 19/6/2018 China ranks 11th among countries with the most coastline, well after Indonesia, Russia, the Philippines and Japan. Supported by the US-led international security and trade rules, China has steadily risen to

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  • In Search of the Real Indo-Pacific; Global powers show renewed interest in the Indo-Pacific region0

    Global powers express renewed interest in the Indo-Pacific, and intentions are divided over strategies that could counter China or entice Chinese participation. The Indo-Pacific region dominated discussions at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, even more so than the summit between leaders of North Korea and the United States, explains Donald K. Emmerson, director of the

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  • Electoral Tsunami for Malaysia0

    Malaysians recover from the election shock, ending UMNO’s 60 years of power, and prepare for tougher job: ending corruption Philip Bowring Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Tsunami treasure: An electoral upset put the 92-year-old former Premier Mahathir Mohamad back in power; police haul away cartons of jewelry and other luxury items from defeated Prime Minister Najib

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