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    China's Worst Nightmare: Is a U.S.- India Military Alliance Brewing?

    Kevin Knodell May 20, 2016 Washington and New Delhi are getting a lot more serious about military-to-military ties. As the United States and India become more wary of an increasingly assertive China, the two countries are gradually edging closer together. On May 16, American and Indian...
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    Halal food legislation violates Constitutional principle: expert

    By Li Ruohan Source:Global Times Published: 2016-3-7 1:28:01 A Chinese expert voiced opposition to proposed legislation on the production and management of halal food, saying that it could damage the principle of the separation of religion from politics. Xi Wuyi, an expert on Marxism at the...
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    Five Chinese Jews come home after thousands of years

    Five Chinese Kaifeng Jews making Aliyah Tuvia Gering, Shavei Israel’s emissary to Kaifeng In the first Aliyah from the ancient Chinese Jewish community of Kaifeng in the last seven years, five women from the community are scheduled to arrive in Israel next Monday, returning to the Jewish...
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    China Is Latest Destination for Brazilian Stars

    New players introduced by the Chinese soccer club Beijing Guoan last month included, from left, the Brazilians Renato Augusto, Ralf and Kléber. (Egor Krimets, right, is from Uzbekistan.) SÃO PAULO, Brazil — In this country’s top soccer league, the Brasileirão, team officials are used to the...
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    5 myths about China’s economy

    By Eswar S. Prasad January 7 When China’s stock market tumbles — as it did this past week — world markets can’t help but feel the effects. But how worried should we be about China’s economy? It may be the second largest in the world, yet it remains opaque and misunderstood. Here are five...
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    Is China Taking Its Nose off the Grindstone?

    By Steven Butler Work less. Play more. Spend more. That’s not how China managed to surpass Japan and become the world’s second-largest economy in just one generation of fast growth. It’s more like: nose to the grindstone, long hours, cheap wages, save and invest everything. So it may come as a...
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    Vietnam issues second warning to China over island flights

    True, our vietnamese friends are not sitting idle, they are busy building theirs day and night, though in a rather primitive way.
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    Vietnam issues second warning to China over island flights

    Vietnam has issued its second rebuke in a week to Beijing, accusing its northern neighbour of "threatening peace" after more Chinese aircraft landed on a contested reef in the South China Sea. Chinese state media on Wednesday said two civilian planes landed on one of the islands in the Fiery...
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    China-UK (Britain) Geopolitics and Economics: News & Discussions

    China and Britain issued a statement on Syria issue in Beijing Tuesday, agreeing to advance counter-terrorism and a political settlement in parallel. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Beijing of China, Jan. 5, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] The...
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    China Has Risen, and It is Time We Got Used to It

    By Shivshankar Menon on 01/01/2016 I often come across articles on China that use the word ‘dragon’ in its title – when rational people are no longer supposed to believe in the existence of dragons. As if the word’s association with fire, emotion and drama were not enough, speaking about the...
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    China Plans a New Silk Road, but Trade Partners Are Wary(Turkey)

    By KEITH BRADSHER December 25, 2015 ANKARA, Turkey — As tensions in the Mideast and Ukraine rose in recent years, Turkey moved to jointly manufacture a sophisticated missile defense system. The $3.4 billion plan would have given Turkey’s military more firepower and laid the foundation to start...
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    Chinese Stealth Fighter J-20 Starts Production

    By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer Posted December 28, 2015 2101 "2101" rolled out of the factory on December 26, 2015, still in its bright yellow factory primer. 2101 is structurally most similar to "2016" and "2017", the 7th and 8th J-20 prototypes. With the first LRIP squadron likely to be...
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    China hits India where it hurts

    By M.K. Bhadrakumar on December 28, 2015 China has moved for the first time to demonstratively erode India’s ‘influence’ over one of its small neighbors, Nepal. The disclosures following the weekend talks in Beijing by the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal Kamal Thapa during...
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    Vietnam leadership to be chosen at January meeting

    Vietnam’s new leadership will be chosen at a Communist Party Congress in January, an official statement said late Monday, as the country struggles with economic reform and strained relations with its biggest trade partner and neighbour China. The key meeting, held every five years, determines...
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    Japan’s population slide set to accelerate

    Japan's Minister for Administrative Reform Taro Kono TOKYO — Japan should craft an “integrated” immigration policy to cope with its shrinking population, or risk losing out to an aging China in competition for vital foreign workers, the cabinet minister for administrative reform said on...
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    China downplays Japan's construction of India's first bullet train project

    BEIJING: China today played down arch rival Japan winning the contract to build India's first bullet train project, as officials said the deal is confined to one sector, and claimed India is still open to Chinese investments on other high-speed routes depending on easy financing. India's move...
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    Chinese Land Buys, With Da Nang Residents' Help, Shock Vietnamese

    An official in Vietnam's central city of Da Nang has admitted that local residents dodged laws to help Chinese citizens acquire coastal land facing the South China Sea. Speaking to the city's main governing body last week, Dao Tan Bang, party chief of Ngu Hanh Son district, said 71 people were...
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    Abe's Upcoming India Visit: Breaking New Ground in Japan-India Relations

    Japan and india are natural allies in every imaginable repect, each having what other desperately wants. japan is well known for cutting edge high technologies while india boasts of an abundunce of young and well educated workforce. mere a close economic ,political and military relationship...
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    The Chinese man fighting Islamic State with the YPG

    When describing the global struggle against the so-called Islamic State (IS), few people would think of China and its citizens. But one Chinese national claims to have entered Syria to join the Kurdish militia group, the Popular Protection Units (YPG), one of the largest groups fighting against...
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    Japan poised to build India's first bullet train: report

    Japan is set to build India's first bullet train, with Tokyo financing the project through an $8 billion loan to New Delhi, a leading Japanese business daily reported on Tuesday. The Nikkei, which did not cite sources, said the bullet train will link the cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad and...
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