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SEOUL — South Korea on Thursday condemned as “historic distortion” an effort by Japan to register 19th century industrial facilities as U.N. World Heritage sites, urging full disclosure of Japan’s use of Korean forced labor. Japan’s move to list the 23 industrial sites, many of them coal mines...

Jinke Yindang and Jinke Yinduan hold painting of PM Narendra Modi and China's President Xi Jinping. (HT Photo) The long painting is titled “The Everlasting Sino-India Dharma Connection” in Chinese. It is made on specially handcrafted paper and on its lower part, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...

BEIJING: China has come up with a sweetheart deal to break through India's resistance to its attempt to access the Indian Ocean. It is offering India an opportunity to participate in joint seabed mining in the ocean, which has strong potential of yielding expensive minerals. "China and India...

THE celebrations in Moscow on May 9th to commemorate the capitulation of Nazi Germany 70 years ago will speak volumes about today’s geopolitics. While Western leaders are staying away in protest against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine (and the first annexation of sovereign territory in Europe...

Sino-German cooperation until 1941 Kung Hsiang-hsi（孔祥熙） and Adolf Hitler in Berlin.

BANGKOK, Thailand — Somewhere in Cambodia, the prime minister’s bookie is having a rough week. Hun Sen, the nation’s all-powerful strongman, is fuming over Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s loss to Floyd Mayweather over the weekend. He’s so irate that, in a public speech recorded by the...

BEIJING: China has sent armed police force for rescue operation in earthquake hit areas after Beijing received an "urgent request" from Nepal, State media said. This is the first time the country's armed police have ventured beyond its borders. The first batch of 160 "armed police officers"...

International analysts have been observing Pakistan closely to ascertain its internal security situation and assess the feasibility of the predicted implosion which could bring a catastrophic fallout in the subcontinent. In the urge to focus on this situation, many may have overlooked the...

BEIJING (AP) — "The purpose of the exercise is to strengthen the friendly exchanges between the two sides ... and to improve the capability of the two navies to deal with maritime threats," Geng said. He said the drills did not target any third parties and were not a response to fighting and...

Will Congress approve a trade deal and get behind Japan's plans to beef up its military? It depends in part on a generational shift. Throughout his speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cited continuities in the relationship between his country...

Indrani Bagchi,TNN | Apr 29, 2015, 04.11 AM IST NEW DELHI: India's mammoth presence on the ground in Nepal within hours after Saturday's earthquake wrought widespread devastation has dwarfed all other foreign aid pouring into the Himalayan country. Now, China, which overtook India as Nepal's...

Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times, Kathmandu Updated: Apr 29, 2015 08:46 IST As Indian and Chinese rescue teams work alongside in Gongabu — a neighbourhood in Kathmandu battered by the April 25 quake — comparisons are being drawn between the two Asian powerhouses, even as officials on both sides...

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by PEPE ESCOBAR Move over, Cold War 2.0. The real story, now and for the foreseeable future, in its myriad declinations, and of course, ruling out too many bumps in the road, is a new, integrated Eurasia forging ahead. China’s immensely ambitious New Silk Road project will keep intersecting...

By Samuel Oakford April 21, 2015 Long before the words "Silk Road" became synonymous with buying illicit drugs on the dark web, it was the name given to a network of lucrative trade routes that connected China to the Middle East and beyond. Now, with a mammoth $46 billion investment, China...

Chairman Mao says,"women hold up half the sky". I Love this picture, a revolutionary romance.:smitten: revolutionary optimism and brotherhood

Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon will visit China on Wednesday, and a Defence Ministry source said a planned submarine purchase is in line for discussions with Beijing. Defence Ministry spokesman Maj Gen Kongcheep Tuntrawanich said on Sunday the minister's trip will last from Wednesday to...

12 China-made Z-9 helicopters delivered to Cambodia

A Chinese military adviser puts rank on Cambodian Army graduates during a graduation ceremony at Army Institute in Cambodia's Kampong Speu province on March 12. by Aubrey Belford and Prak Chan Thul THLOK, TASEK CAMBODIA – When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at...

Mike McConnell, when he was still national director of intelligence at the tailend of the Bush administration. The Chinese government -- seeking to steal valuable secrets -- has hacked into the computers at every major American company, according to the nation's former spy director. Mike...