Baru baru ini dunia dikejutkan dengan adanya perang dagang antara amerika dengan tiongkok. Presidin terpilih Amerika ke-47 yaitu Donald Trump mengumumkan bahwa akan menaikan tarif impor dari negara Tiongkok. Perang dagang diantara kedua negara adidaya ini mempunyai dampak sangat besar terhadap politik global, karena Amerika dan Tiongkok adalah kekuatan utama dunia terutama dalam faktor ekonomi. […]
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Block 3 / Central Asia / China / News / Russia / The Conversation / Uzbekistan / World
Russian clout fading, China reshaping Central Asia energy sector
China has been developing closer ties with countries in Central Asia over recent years. Trade between China and the Central Asia region grew to US$89 billion in 2023, an increase of 27% on the previous year. Chinese trade rose with every country there except Turkmenistan. In my paper from June 2024, which is part of […]
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As global players focus on the Arctic, US icebreakers are scarce
Nowhere on earth is global warming proceeding more rapidly than inside the Arctic Circle. Over the past two decades, the Arctic has grown five degrees Celsius warmer. And the trend is accelerating, with the Arctic warming nearly four times as rapidly as the rest of the planet. Climate scientists expect that Arctic median temperatures will […]
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Before the missiles: How disinformation could spark Asia’s next war
“The problem with fake news is not that people believe it. The problem is that they don’t believe anything anymore.”— Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century In February 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered the largest European conflict since World War II. But this war isn’t just being fought with tanks […]
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When Pope Francis spoke to Asia Times on China
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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IMF: Economic uncertainty is now higher than it was during Covid
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its World Economic Outlook, and it does not take an expert to deduce that, even among some of the world’s top economic minds, confident predictions are currently hard to come by. Every spring the IMF and World Bank hold their spring meetings in Washington, DC: a week […]
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Choosing the next Pope Francis
He was a beacon, a lighthouse for the common people, the downtrodden, the have-nots and those discriminated against in one way or another—those who wanted to live in harmony, peace and love with other people and nature. Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) was not simply the head of the Catholic Church; he was a voice for eight […]
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Australians hate Trump’s policies and distrust US: poll
Australians strongly disagree with key policies of US President Donald Trump, and have overwhelmingly lost trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world, according to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll. Despite this, 80% of people say the alliance is “very” or “fairly” important for Australia’s security, only fractionally down on last year’s […]
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Russia plays it cool on Estonia’s ‘shadow fleet’ ship seizure
Estonia seized one of Russia’s “shadow fleet” vessels on Friday (April 11), just two days after approving a new law that allows it to use force to sink such ships if they pose a national security threat. RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan condemned the first as “state-sponsored piracy”, while Russian President Vladmir Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev speculated that Britain might be behind the […]
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Pikachu, Studio Ghibli memes and the subversive power of cuteness
In Antalya, Turkey, in the early hours of March 27, 2025, Pikachu was spotted fleeing the police, making a getaway as fast as his short yellow legs could waddle. The person dressed as the popular Pokémon character had been objecting to the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, whose political party later posted on X, […]