China, Japan up military ante on the Nansei Islands

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China has stepped up its naval and air drills around the Nansei/Ryukyu Islands, ratcheting tensions alongside a rapidly re-arming Japan. Japan News recently reported that a Chinese carrier battlegroup spearheaded by the Liaoning has been conducting naval drills simulating an attack on the Nansei/Ryukyu Islands since December 16, with the exercises set to end on […]Continue Reading

A Germany-China-Russia triangle on Ukraine

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken probably thought that in his self-appointed role as the world’s policeman, it was his prerogative to check out what is going on among Germany, China and Russia that he wasn’t privy to. However, Blinken’s call to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday (December 23) turned out to be […]Continue Reading

Asia’s longest-serving leader still not a statesman

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Just three days before Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen jetted off to Paris for one of his first visits to France in years, Cambodian researchers discovered the remains of a  Cambodia-France Friendship Statue that had been destroyed by the genocidal Khmer Rouge in 1977. The leader’s promise to repair the statue could so easily be […]Continue Reading

18 trapped in Xinjiang gold mine collapse

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BEIJING: Rescuers were working Sunday (Dec 25) to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, state media reported. A total of 40 people were working underground at the mine in Yining county, about 100km from the border with Kazakhstan, at theContinue Reading