China’s President Xi Jinping in Moscow for talks on his first visit to that country as China’s new president. Source: Kremlin Press Office The only system that can be described as similar to…
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The US has been increasing air and sea reconnaissance in waters near China, a situation that Beijing regards as dangerous and harmful to the building of trust between the two nations, a senior Chinese military…
U.S. film director Oliver Stone speaks before press in Tokyo on August 12. Film director Oliver Stone, who is no stranger to controversy, turned from his sharp attacks on the U.S. for the…
US Reopens 18 Missions: The Fake “War on Terror” Finds Justification to Attack Everybody Everywhere?
Eighteen of the 19 United States embassies and consulates that were closed in the Middle East and Africa because of a terrorist threat will reopen today, the State Department said. State Department spokeswoman…
Red flag: China unnerved by Japan’s bid to reclaim imperial past Less than a year after Japan nationalized the disputed Diaoyutai (Diaoyu or Senkaku) islands in the East China Sea, the country’s leadership…
Following a major victory for his party in Japan’s legislative elections, most American pundits and the Obama administration would like Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to concentrate on fixing the economy and stay away from raising…
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki blasted the government’s push to revise the Constitution, saying that politicians without any understanding of history “shouldn’t be messing” with the foundation of the country. In a magazine published last week…
The Obama administration’s «Asia Pivot» is playing out in earnest in joint U.S.-Indian-Israeli intelligence operations in the Himalayan region. The actions by the three cooperative nations’ intelligence agencies are aimed at limiting Chinese influence here….
The right-wing government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a further step towards rearmament and the revival of Japanese militarism with the release of a Defence Ministry report last week that for the first time proposed that Japan acquire offensive strike capabilities. Since winning office last December, Abe has moved rapidly to implement his platform of building “a strong Japan” with “a strong military”. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government has expanded defence spending for the first time in a decade and has continued to fuel tensions with China over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islets in the East China Sea. A defence white paper released last month for the first time focussed on China, rather than North Korea, as the main “threat”.
The Federal Reserve has implemented new standards called “Base III accord” which is being sold to the public as a means to cushion the banks against expected “severe economic downturns”. This is part of stricter capital regulations…