✪ China disappeared behind the “Bamboo Curtain” in 1949. Its people have endured almost seventy-five years of horror. Untold millions have died of famine or been tortured to death in prison camps...
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✪ The shift to a rotational model is being criticized as sending the wrong message to China…
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✪ The Biden administration is proceeding with talks to unfreeze the $7 billion in Afghanistan’s assets held by the U.S. Federal Reserve, Reuters reported on Monday, despite the Taliban failing to meet human rights commitments and harboring al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul...
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✪ A few weeks ago the Biden administration trumpeted the killing of a not particularly significant terrorist leader in Syria. This was obviously intended to convey the message that Joe takes threats to the homeland seriously.
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✪ According to a new report from the United Nations, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion by November 15th; and by 2023, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country…
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✪ The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara...
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✪ China on Friday launched its biggest and most modern aircraft carrier, marking a major military advance for the Asian superpower. The announcement comes at a time of heightened tensions between China and the United States over Beijing’s sabre rattling towards Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province to be seized by force if necessary…
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✪ China is not doing well, and Xi Jinping is largely to blame. Draconian efforts to curb coronavirus outbreaks throughout China and highly restrictive policies aimed at propping up the real estate sector have dealt visible damage to the national economy...
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✪ As the war in Ukraine drags on, the United States is making a direct military confrontation with Russia more likely with each passing week…
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✪ The latest index of world food prices was released by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on April 8th. The FAO’s Food Price Index climbed to 159.3 in March, which in real terms is roughly double its level in 2000, about 80% above its 2019 level, and the highest since records began in 1961...
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