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[ Reuters ] China Will Always Support Myanmar in Choosing Its Own Path, Says Senior Diplomat
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will always support Myanmar in choosing its own developmental path, Chinese senior diplomat Wang yi told his Myanmar counterpart on Tuesday. Wang assured Myanmar foreign minister Wunna Maung Lwin that China’s friendly policy towards Myanmar was not affected by changes to Myanmar’s domestic and external situation, according to a statement by…
Federal State of New China?
Disclaimer: Defense Politics Asia is in no way endorsing or supporting this movement, or acknowledging the legitimacy of such a proclamation. However, given the gravity of the people involved that are giving a face to this grouping/declaration – and the lack of reporting in any English language media – we deem it necessary to report…
6 Feb 2020: Speculation of the Actual 2019-nCoV Numbers in China
I personally dont think anyone knows the actual number of death, with exception of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) leadership and the point people who are consolidating reports from all over China. Usually in this kindda “China-numbers” cases, I will just x10 whatever “bad-news” number was officially reported by China, as a mental conditioning. Being…
Wuhan Coronavirus is definitely more viral & dangerous than SARS
SARS1 Nov 2002 To: 1 Apr 2003 (6 months) China alone.Infected: 806Dead: 34 https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_04_01/en/ One Month later: accumulated numbers became… 1 Nov 2002 To: 01 May 2003 China alone.Infected: 3638Dead: 170 https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_05_01/en/ And despite this massive increase, its “merely” 450% increase over 30 days.- — Today. Wuhan Coronavirus1 Dec 2019 To: 27 Jan 2020 (2…
Jerusalem Post: Iran lacks good options – analysis
First, it is worth recalling the sequence of events. The killing on Thursday of IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani outside Baghdad International Airport by a US MQ9 Reaper Drone firing a Hellfire missile, was the latest escalation in a process that began with the killing of an American contractor by the Iran-supported Kataib Hezbollah…
Soleimani: Another miscalculation on Trump’s resolve – Episode Iran
Iran had been systematically raising the stakes across the region after Trump cancelled Obama’s marquee “Iran Nuclear Deal” and imposed comprehensive sanctions on Iran. Since then Iran had ramped up its actions abroad, with the most significant events being the seizures of foreign oil tankers in the Gulf and the “drone attack” on Saudi Arabia’s…
USA is backing out of Syria for a reason – but it’s not what you think it is.
Written by Rune Scott, Edited by Wyatt Mingji Lim.Cover Photo taken from The Hill (Getty) Most Kurds aren’t actually trying to form a nation of Kurdistan. Turkish Kurds, and to some extent Iranian Kurds, are the two most interested in this, because they understandably want out of nations whose governments are fundamentally hostile and oppressive…
South Park had officially launched “the China issue” into the mainstream American consciousness
The latest episode of South Park jumped on the NBA-China saga at an unbelievable speed and weight. This is also the grimmest and most violent South Park episode I have ever seen (and South Park had not been shy of showing extreme violence on their show…) But in my opinion, the NBA-China saga and this…
Ending the Arab-Israeli conflict: An exercise in futility?
With Israel seemingly embroiled in constant conflict with its neighbors, one might come to conclude that a permanent peace is implausible in that corner of the Middle East anytime soon. But could an elusive peace be just over the horizon? The Camp David Accords, that resulted in a treaty of peace between Israel and Egypt…
To South Korea, Is Japan Actually A Military Threat?
Having a deep interest in all things related to the military (from history, equipment, tactics, doctrine, organization and so on) since elementary school, as a child I sometimes wondered how a modern total war between South Korea and Japan would look like. Growing up in the Korean community, hearing comparisons – and at times derogatory…
Unravelling the water dispute mystery between Singapore and Malaysia
THE MATHS 1000 gallon = 4.54609 m3 malaysia sell raw water at 3 sen per 1000 gallonmalaysia buy treated water at 50 sen per 1000 gallonsingapore spend 2.40 ringgit to treat per 1000 gallonsingapore lost 1.90 ringgit per 1000 gallon Malaysian water tariff is currently at:80 sens per cubic meter /3.60 ringgit per 1000 gallon(0-20…
2018 “A Year of What the Heck” Review
2019 is upon us, looking back, the past year has been full of surprise in term of geopolitics and defense policy. As an inside note, I often joke that 2018 is the ‘year of what the heck’ where world leaders take for the strangest turn possible. So before we step forward into the rest of…
ChannelNewsAsia: Canada arrests Huawei CFO, to extradite her to US
Canada arrests Huawei CFO, to extradite her to US (Updated: ) Share this content WASHINGTON: Canada has arrested Chinese telecoms giant Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver, where she is facing extradition to the United States, Canada’s Department of Justice said on Wednesday (Dec 5). The arrest is related to violations of US sanctions,…
Haaretz: Palestinians Seek Emergency Arab League Session Over Israel’s Warming Ties With Arab States
Palestinians seek emergency Arab League session over Israel’s warming ties with Arab states Palestinian Authority officials are seeking emergency sessions of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation over Israel’s increasingly close ties with some Arab countries and what is seen as the normalization of relations with Israel. The Palestinian delusion about their…
Hindustan Times: Why Amnesty was wrong to strip Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi of top honour
Why Amnesty was wrong to strip Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi of top honour The vilification of Aung San Suu Kyi continues unabated. Whether it is Amnesty International or United States vice-president, Mike Pence, no one, it seems, can wait to signal their virtue by throwing an egg at her face. The author is exactly…
Iran’s Enemies Strike Back
Bilahari Kausikan shared this awesome article on his facebook, so we decided that it would be a good read for DPA readers. Log into Facebook Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. Sept. 26, 2018 By George Friedman Iran’s Enemies Strike Back The government in Tehran…
The Telegraph: Japan and North Korea held secret meeting
Japan and North Korea held secret meeting as Shinzo Abe ‘loses trust’ in Donald Trump As Mr Abe prepares to seek his third term as prime minister, the decades-old abduction issue remains a major stumbling block in normalising diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea. Tokyo officials, who refused to comment on reports of the…
Washington Post: Facebook blocks accounts of Myanmar’s top general, other military leaders
Facebook blocks accounts of Myanmar’s top general, other military leaders SINGAPORE – When Facebook officials heard that a damning U.N. report would again make a link between hate speech on the social media site and atrocities in Myanmar, they knew they had to act, a person familiar with their thinking said. Without consulting the Myanmar…
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