China
‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’ is still a work in progress
October 19, 2017I confess to being puzzled by pundits who casually affirm, as though it were a given, that Beijing has abandoned Marxism and socialism.
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UN action, plus direct talks, the way to solve DPRK issue
September 19, 2017Chinese President Xi made it clear a nuclear-armed, saber-rattling North Korea is just as unacceptable as a war.
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China rising: Outlines for the 21st century
June 27, 2017Trump has sent mixed signals as to what kind of relationship he wants with China, but the East Asian giant's growing influence won't be deterred by the new U.S. president.
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Korean nuclear crisis deepens as Trump sends warships
April 10, 2017Responding to N. Korean missile tests, Trump orders fleet to the region and considers placing U.S. nuclear weapons in S. Korea, assassinating Kim, and/or CIA covert ops.
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Chinese Communist leader defends globalization while U.S. talks isolationism
February 22, 2017In a bizarre twist, it falls to China's Communist leader Xi Jinping to defend globalization as Trump talks of closing borders and halting trade.
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