Elizabeth Economy, China expert and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, surprised many China hands, when she issued a call for reciprocity in U.S. relations with China (“China's New Revolution: the Reign of Xi Jinping,” Foreign Affairs, May/June, 2018): “China is..…
Supporters from many of those communities—in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia—joined thousands of Canadians who marched through the streets that cold day. . ..…
The rest of the votes were divided between the Labor party (2.3%), the New Right (3.2%), Sephardic Ultra-Orthodox party Shas (1.5%) — which can be attributed to the support it received from immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia — and the Zehut party that, with 4%, received more support..…
Of course, there’s an agenda there in Central Asia and then also now Turkey is a dialogue partner of the SCO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. ... So that again, both China and Russia now have an inroad into South Asia. ..…
United Nations organs that work on this issue, such as the Response for Venezuelans platform of the UNHCR and IOM, should work together with international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and Development Bank of Latin America, not only to increase the..…
United States dropped 6,727,084 tons of bombs on 60 to million people in southeast Asia, more than triple what it had dropped Asia and Europe combined World War II. ..…
We also look at stories highlighting the other side of the story, by showing trends Asia, Europe and Middle East that promise to undermine Anglo-American world order.. ..…
How often has the United States gone over its southern border or into the Caribbean or South East Asia? ..…
Musing that The Irrawaddy was publishing occasional vignettes of an earlier Burma, I considered rereading the work, which was published in 1958—the year I first went to Burma—to see how Burma figured in this earlier diatribe of the failures of US policy in Southeast Asia in the wake of the spread..…
The Afghan War is only one of an endless series of wars that the US has waged across the Middle East, in Central Asia, and the Balkans since 1991. ... This is, first and foremost, because of its strategic significance: Afghanistan lies at the heart of energy-rich Central Asia, borders both..…
Japan and South Korea are mired in a trade dispute that runs the danger of further damaging their already fraught relationship at a time when the political situation in North Asia demands closer cooperation in the face of threats from a pugnacious government in North Korea, backed by Russian and..…
who resigned on July 16 and will lead European Central Bank in the fall, there has been the usual noise from Asia about the imperative for candidate from the region. ... It perhaps works to Asia's advantage to complain about governance at IMF and World Bank rather than attempt to..…
Authoritarian regimes in East Asia, North Africa and the Middle East are so eager for the latest Google technology because Google was established with research grants from the U.S. ... The Chatham House report states, “[V]ulnerabilities in the strategic infrastructure could result in severe..…
Authoritarian regimes in East Asia, North Africa and the Middle East are so eager for the latest Google technology because Google was established with research grants from the U.S. ... The Chatham House report states, “[V]ulnerabilities in the strategic infrastructure could result in severe..…