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From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via Asia Media: In keeping with its economic expansion, China has deepened its strategic influence in the region, especially with India’s immediate neighbors – Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Beijing has long kept a close strategic partnership with Islamabad, but its overtures to the remaining countries were hobbled […]
Read MoreFrom Indiantelevision.com: With China set to become the world’s largest economy by mid-century, and with its international influence on the rise, CNN dedicates extensive resources to Eye On China. This will be a week of live and special feature programming from Beijing. From 14 to 22 May 2005, Eye On China will give CNN audiences […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: One hundred and sixty years of hauling landfill from mountainsides and construction dumps and shoveling it into the water has left Hong Kong with a harbor that, between the Central business district and Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side, is now just about 1 km wide”shorter than the span of New […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The question that has arisen out of the big Shanghai demonstration – and those leading up to it over the past few weeks in Chengdu, Shenzhen and Beijing, among others – concerns whether it is on the Chinese government’s agenda to allow anti-Japan protesters to voice their opinion publicly. But the bigger […]
Read MoreFrom the JoongAng Daily, via IHT: The fundamental issue is which alliance will prevail in East Asia, the autocratic coalition led by China that seeks to drive the United States from the region or the democratic grouping led by the United States that seeks a stable balance of political and military power in which trade […]
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