The development of cooperation between China and Russia plays an important role for the economy of the entire Eurasian region. The first major oil pipeline the two countries built, signify the possibility of future economic…
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The latest economic report cards have shown improvements in both the US’ and China’s economies. The similarity ends there however, as these quantitative increases have very different qualitative implications for their respective countries. It comes…
A senior Egyptian source told the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat his government was holding talks with several countries to organize an international peace summit shortly, according to Haaretz. “The peace summit is meant to reaffirm…
Called “Obama’s Wars,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward’s new book on President Obama focuses on the Afghanistan war and the worldwide battle against terrorism, but not the top issue in the midterm elections — the…
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection…
Japan has expressed anger over Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to the Southern Kuril Islands. Japan considers the Kuril Islands to be its Northern territories. Medvedev is the first Russian or Soviet leader to ever…
Posted by Tom Engelhardt [Note for TomDispatch Readers: And I do mean readers! A TomDispatch “library” of four popular new books is taking shape for fall 2010. The first is The Girl with the Dragon…
Posted by Dilip Hiro This has been the week of American decline at TomDispatch. On Sunday, Michael Klare considered that decline in the context of the rise of China as an energy superpower. I gave…
By Anna Varfolomeeva BEIJING— (October 25 —M4relay) – The Arabic term of jihad, which is usually translated by the mass media as “the Holy war,” is commonly used today, especially in the context of war…
The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a report of the panel on Wednesday, supporting China over its complaint against measures taken by the United States which have affected imports of poultry from China, reported China…