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Asia Times looks at India’s widening trade deficit with China: On the surface then, there appears to be plenty of evidence for optimists who hold that Bangalore and Shanghai, rather than New Delhi and Beijing, are the new determinants of the topography of bilateral ties; ties that are increasingly characterized by commerce rather than conflict. […]
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Read MoreThe Independent reports on how dissidents are spending their days in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress: Li Heping, a prominent lawyer, was reportedly abducted at the weekend by plain-clothed security officers who put a hood over his head and drove him in an unmarked car to a basement. He he was stripped and […]
Read MoreFrom Pakistan’s Daily Times, an often over-looked aspect of the recently much discussed relationship between Burma and China: The Muslim Rohingya is one of seven ethnic minority states which were formed under the Myanmar constitution of 1974, but human rights groups including Amnesty International have documented a catalogue of abuses by the junta… Nick Cheesman, […]
Read MoreA bird’s eye view of a construction site in Tianjin, by juicystyle
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