Wednesday, May 28, 2025

America Needs a New Asian Alliance to Counter China, says one of Biden's Assistant Secretaries of Defense

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The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact, by Ely Ratner Foreign Affairs, May 27, 2025. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/case-pacific-defense-...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Professor Po Hu expressed optimism that while a full resolution of the dispute with the Philippines was unlikely “in our lifetime,” he remained “confident that we can peacefully manage these disputes” moving forward

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Chinese scholars suggest peaceful path with Philippines in South China Sea dispute Experts emphasise compromise and reject ‘megaphone diplom...
Monday, April 21, 2025

An-lin Yen on Taiwan: It is likely to take another five to 10 years to achieve full reunification + We acknowledge that, at present, the US is stronger than us, which is the main reason reunification has not yet been achieved

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Open Questions | Beijing adviser Yan Anlin on why a timetable for Taiwan reunification has disadvantages | South China Morning Post   ‘We ar...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Dennis Wilder on US-China ties, Taiwan, internal reforms in the US, the Quad, India, technological prowess and economic might

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SCMP Exclusive | Dennis Wilder, national security specialist and former CIA official, on US-China ties Sylvie Zhuangin, Beijing. Apr 7, http...
Friday, November 1, 2024

How the establishment thinks in the UK about energy and the citizen's quality of life

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How the establishment thinks in the UK about energy and the citizen's quality of life Co-authored by the Royal Academy of Engineering...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Dockworkers strike: Only about half of the union’s members are obliged to show up to work each day; the rest sit at home collecting “container royalties” negotiated in previous ILA contracts

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On the Waterfront, the Sequel. By The WSJ Editorial Board The dockworkers strike is an education in monopoly union power. https://www.wsj.co...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Time ago it was desertification, 'turning the Earth barren,' and 'leaving entire countries facing famine'; now the worry is that in the receding drylands 'vegetation may soak up scarce water supplies'

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Although by then it was well-known that it was a better theory that the deserts were receding and the earth was greening, than the opposite...