Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
Deep within the vast expanse of China’s remote Taklamakan Desert, thousands of kilometres from the nearest coastline, a striking military landscape has been taking shape. According to an investigation by Telegraph UK
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Pressure is mounting on Israel over the treatment of Palestinian detainees held in its prison system following the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, as allegations of physical abuse, inadequate medical care,
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Kenyan politicians are increasingly hiring armed groups for as little as 500 Kenyan shillings, or about $4 a day, to disrupt political rivals, attack protesters and intimidate civil society organizations, according to
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China’s growing use of export controls on critical minerals has transformed a long-running supply chain issue into a strategic contest involving governments, manufacturers and defence industries, according to a Financial Times report
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The location of Iran’s 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 per cent has become one of the most significant unresolved issues in the ongoing dispute between the United States and Iran,
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The ship tracker in Kota Kinabalu, where I am — on the eastern edge of Malaysia — shows that 281 ships passed through the Malacca Strait on July 14, compared with 134
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A decade after an international tribunal rejected China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, the waters remain defined less by the 2016 legal ruling than by an expanding network of islands,
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France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long
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Summary: When people think of economic sanctions, they often imagine a mechanism targeting a specific government, specific assets, or a list of names. But the U.S. sanctions regime operates differently and in a
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My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete.
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