In the tumble of events that followed, we watched the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capital in Columbia, a ceremony that felt like the final surrender of the U.S. Civil War. Barack Obama sang “Amazing Grace” at the funeral of shooting victim Clementa Pinckney, […]
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How France Can Avoid Being Reduced to a Symbolic Power
But things have changed in the Pacific. The French-Australian submarine agreement was concluded in 2016 during the presidency of François Hollande. At the time, France and Australia both wanted enthusiastic engagement with China, in order to exploit the growing Chinese market. In the last two years, however, Australia’s position has […]
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Taliban getting back support from Pakistan
Taliban is getting back support from Pakistan. The country has recently launched a global campaign in order to ask the world to support Taliban. The gist of Pakistan’s message is that failure to engage with the Taliban will doom Afghanistan to humanitarian disaster and other destabilizing outcomes. In his speech […]
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After debt China is amid an Electricity Crisis
China is facing issue of electricity which is affecting the country’s economy as it is already dealing with the growing property and debt crisis issues. The problems have been brewing for months, but in the last week, 20 out of 31 mainland provinces and regions have intermittently cut power, resulting […]
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Inside the Seedy, Cutthroat Underbelly of China’s Wealthy Elite
Shum was born into a common strand of the Chinese elite; a once-rich family reduced by Maoism who recovered their wealth through connections, diaspora relatives, and hard graft in the 1990s. He emigrated to Hong Kong with his parents as a child, where they lived in straitened circumstances before becoming […]
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Iran Seeks to Fill a Middle East Power Vacuum
This dire outcome comes after U.S. President Joe Biden’s hurried pullout from Afghanistan and the ensuing Taliban takeover, which signaled to U.S. adversaries and allies alike Biden’s eagerness to withdraw from the region to focus on the China threat. Some call it the “Afghanistan effect,” and it seriously damaged U.S. […]