Most of China moving to Southern European levels by 2030. Southern Asia (India, Indonesia) reaching South American levels in per capita income around 2030. ... Half of the population of South America is in Brazil. 210 million in Brazil and 430 million in South America. . ..…
It appears that North Korea wants to slowly open itself to the world, a prospect that has South Korean businessmen quietly ecstatic and China relieved. ... Despite the chimera of a 355-ship navy, America will not win or lose this fight in a Gotterdammerung in the South..…
Beijing rejects US demands to demilitarize artificial islands it built in the South China Sea done for defense, not offense, Washington operates.. ... In October, Xi Jinping ordered Chinese military commanders involved in monitoring Taiwan and the South China Sea to..…
United States will meet with whomever United States wants to meet with, when asked whether China was warning against such meeting. ◆ South China Sea. On the issue of South China Sea, United States should stop sending ships and planes near islands that China..…
An incremental program of land reclamation and island-building in the South China Sea sought to create the (newly minted) ground that would extend Chinese military and economic power and de facto sovereignty into international waters shared by an array of nations.17 Iran, capitalizing on the..…