Pope Francis gave his first-ever interview on China and the Chinese people on January 28, 2016, to then-Asia Times columnist and China Renmin University senior researcher Francesco Sisci. The Pope urged the world not to fear China’s fast rise in a historic one-hour interview at the Vatican. He said the Chinese people are in a […]
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Great Game On: Shining light on the contest for Central Asia
The Founding Fathers advised Americans to steer clear of entangling alliances if they wished to preserve their newly acquired Republic. This may be news to some of our politicos but not to President Donald Trump. No US president has been leerier of the interventionist foreign policy bequeathed to us by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt […]
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Why can’t US build a homegrown tech workforce?
A heated debate has recently erupted between two groups of supporters of President Donald Trump. The dispute concerns the H-1B visa system, the program that allows US employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations – mostly in the tech industry. On the one hand, there are people like Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve […]
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Apparent Trump vision: Divvy up the world into demarcated empires
Theoretically, America – whether led by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump – should be trying to remain the world’s pre-eminent strategic power. In international relations theory, the realist outlook maintains that the international system of states compels individual states to seek as much power over other states as possible. This is the only way […]
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Reasons for hope Trump won’t sink world’s critical minerals supply
There’s a chance Donald Trump’s second term as US president could have a long-term negative impact on the demand for and supply of what are known as critical minerals. These include copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and the “rare earth elements,” such as lanthanum and yttrium. They are vital for the green energy transition, being used […]