China has urged the United States to stop expanding its military capabilities in outer space, warning that the deployment of weapons in orbit could contribute to a wider global arms race. The
In my book “The Storm Before the Calm,” I wrote that the United States is headed into institutional and socio-economic crises. The institutional crisis, in my view, would primarily concern the way
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In a fervent plea to the US government, the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) of Sri Lanka has strongly condemned the violent crackdown on university students advocating for a Free Palestine across
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Major new announcements this month indicate that the US is intent on escalating its military interference in the Asia-Pacific and the seas around China. The first announcement by the defence ministers of
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Last Wednesday, as part of the sweeping foreign-aid package that included much-needed funding for Ukraine’s defense, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill requiring that TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, sell the popular video-sharing app
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Over 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested in recent days according to U.S. media reports, as the anti-war demonstrations at over 20 American universities continued on Tuesday. Some schools including Columbia University,
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Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese foreign minister, held talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday in
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Once again, Washington has resorted to peddling baseless accusations of “genocide” and “forced labor” in Xinjiang to smear China. Despite its own chilling human rights records, the United States in the recent
More U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin his second China visit in less than a year. His first stop is Shanghai, where the historic Shanghai Communique was issued 52 years ago.
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From April 22-26 in Trincomalee, the United States Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Sri Lanka Navy will partner for the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Sri Lanka 2024 exercise. CARAT Sri Lanka will feature
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As the world witnesses a sharp deterioration of the Middle East’s security landscape, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would try to advance wartime aid for Israel. Johnson’s announcement came shortly
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America’s mounting debt bill is the country’s greatest national security crisis-in-waiting, U.S. magazine The National Interest has reported. Noting that the country registered a 1.6 trillion-U.S. dollar deficit this year and a
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By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include the master/slave, communal village, and lord/serf
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The salience of the phone call from the US President Joe Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday is their consensus that during the period since their summit meeting in Woodside,
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I’ll say it again and again: The 2024 presidential election will be a very close race. Head-to-head national polling averages currently have President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump – the two major parties’ presumptive nominees –
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A brutal conflict in Europe was fresh in people’s minds and the race for the White House turned ugly as talk of secret societies and corruption roiled the United States. It was 1800,
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