Category: South East Asia

Pourquoi la Chine ne suivra pas un «barbare brandissant des droits de douane»

Trois singes sages sont parfaitement conscients de ce qu’un pigeon se faisant passer pour un aigle est réellement en train de faire. La frénésie tarifaire de Trump (TTT), digne d’une crise de colère infantile, désormais accélérée à 145% – et à suivre – est un nouveau coup de poker tonitruant d’un pigeon défonçant l’échiquier. Cela ne marchera pas. Trump a […]

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Trump ends protected status for thousands of Afghans, Cameroonians

The Trump administration has terminated temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in the U.S., a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said on Friday, building on Trump’s far-reaching immigration crackdown. An estimated 14,600 Afghans eligible for Temporary Protected Status will now lose it in May. Some 7,900 Cameroonians had access to the status but will lose it […]

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No American military presence in Bagram: US defense official

A US defense official has said that reports of the United States taking over the Bagram Air Base and flying a transport plane to the town are “not true” and that “there is no US military presence in Bagram,” AFP reported. CIA Director of Public Affairs Liz Lyons also denied the claims that the agency’s deputy Michael Ellis has traveled […]

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No foreign body has right to interfere in our judicial system: Supreme Court Spokesman

The spokesperson for the Supreme Court, Abdul Rahim Rashid, on Saturday issued a statement in response to remarks by the United Nations Human Rights Office, stating that no foreign authority has the right to interfere in the Sharia, religion, or judicial system of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). The UN Human Rights Office had earlier described the implementation of […]

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Trump understands China is on its way to global domination and must be stopped

President Trump is launching a tariff blitz on the world for one reason: China. China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has been overproducing everything. It started with roads and rail lines, then moved to apartments and mansions, and now it’s cars, refrigerators and semiconductors. These goods are dumped […]

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Would Donald Trump Defend Taiwan?

China’s latest round of military drills around Taiwan has once again drawn attention to one of the most consequential unknowns in global security: if Beijing invades, would U.S. President Donald Trump try to stop it? China’s Warning Shots and Taiwan’s Place Last week, the Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command conducted two days of exercises around Taiwan, describing them as a […]

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Geopolitical Implications Of Yunus’s Visit To China – Analysis

Introduction: China sees South Asia as its immediate neighborhood and a zone of influence. The rise of China is altering the traditional international norms and systems. Bangladesh’s geopolitical location dictates her foreign policy makers to treat India as a significant player in the South Asia. However, South Asia on the eve of the 1971 Bangladesh Crisis was “an area of […]

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Underestimating China

Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might […]

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Chaos bosniaque

Dans le silence assourdissant de nos médias, la Bosnie plonge rapidement vers la guerre. Une guerre civile entre les trois groupes – Serbes orthodoxes, Croates catholiques et Bosniaques, soit des musulmans serbes – qui la composent. Ou plutôt, qui composent la fédération la plus improbable et la plus préoccupante pour son instabilité, de l’histoire récente. Les Bosniaques et les Croates […]

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Rupture au sein des BRICS?

Le conflit sino-indien révélé par l’accord de libre-échange entre l’Inde et la Nouvelle-Zélande Il n’est plus communément admis qu’il existe un abîme historique intense entre l’Inde et la Chine. Ce conflit entre deux vastes blocs de civilisation mondiale a été occulté depuis la création du groupe BRIC, comme il a été initialement appelé, lors d’un sommet intergouvernemental entre le Brésil, […]

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