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China Is Blowing Its Chance In The Asia-Pacific
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/12/china-asia-pacific-blowing-chance/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=18717&utm_term=Editor#39;s%20Picks%20OC <https://foreignpolicy.com/category/analysis/argument/> ARGUMENT<https://foreignpolicy.com/category/analysis/argument/> China Is Blowing Its Chance in the Asia-Pacific Beijing needs a better strategy to ease the United States out. BY ANDREI LUNGU<https://foreignpolicy.com/author/andrei-lungu/> | DECEMBER 12, 2019, 10:50 AM [Chinese soldiers sit atop tanks as they drive in a parade to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of […]
How I Was Tricked Into Killing Kim’s Brother: Mother Found In Village
How I was tricked into killing Kim’s brother: Mother found in village Daily Mail · by Simon Parry In Indonesia For The Mail On Sunday · September 28, 2019 They were words Siti Aisyah had long dreamed of hearing, spoken by the filmmaker who had plucked this naive farmer’s daughter from obscurity in order to make her a […]
The Islamic State Meets Southeast Asia
Excerpt: In many ways, the Philippines has emerged as ISIS’ greatest hope for a revival of its caliphate. In May 2017, ISIS militants seized control of Marawi [8], a city of 200,000 on the island of Mindanao, in the restive southern Philippines. For five months the fighters held off the U.S.-trained Philippine military, before being routed through […]
A Thucydides Fallacy: The New Model Of Power Relations For Southeast Asia, the U.S. And China
Excerpts: In response, Bonnie Glaser — an American scholar and Asia observer — warned the region to “not draw a false equivalence between U.S. and Chinese actions.” Glaser suggested “the choice that Southeast Asia must make is not between the U.S. and China,” but “between a future in which there are shared rules and norms […]
U.S. Will Unveil New Indo-Pacific Strategy Next Month
U.S. Will Unveil New Indo-Pacific Strategy Next Month – USNI News news.usni.org · by Dzirhan Mahadzir · April 30, 2019 USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), left, and the Japanese helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181), right, sail in formation with 16 other ships from the U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) during Keen Sword 19 on Nov. […]
How North Korea Got Away With The Assassination Of Kim Jong-nam
Excerpts: The apparent decision by North Korea to recruit and groom two innocent women to carry out the killing appeared to be an attempt by Kim Jong-un to avoid a repeat of the Rangoon bombing incident in Burma in 1983, when two North Korean officers who attempted to publicly assassinate the South Korean president, Chun […]
How We Lost The Great Pacific War | U.S. Naval Institute
How We Lost the Great Pacific War | U.S. Naval Institute by Captain Dale Rielage usni.org The memorial services had finally run their course. Neither of the carriers lost had been homeported at Pearl, but the toll among the destroyers had been more than enough to cast a pall across the island. Having exhausted all the […]
Echoes Of Saddam At Kim Jong Nam Assassination Trial
Echoes of Saddam at Kim Jong Nam assassination trial by Rod Barton lowyinstitute.org 27 November 2017 06:28 27 November 2017 06:28 AEDT The trial of the two young women accused of murdering North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia is now in its first month. Already it has provided some glimpses into how […]
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