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…the earth.” Schmitt was contemplating history: The great Mediterranean empires and the long, millennial power trails of Asian chieftains. But his insight touches every age, our own included. To make a nation, to build an empire, is to draw lines, to push at borders, to smash at g...

…And it also has no problem investing in Rawabi. According to Kamran Bokhari, vice president of Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs for Stratfor, Qatari support for Hamas is part of the sheikhdom's larger, post-Arab Spring strategy of siding with HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028721

…nign friends. Japan has deep cultural and emotional ties with China, through history, language, and art, and a sense of Asian fraternity forged by their struggles to keep intrusive, overbearing Western powers at bay. Many in Japan also carry an enduring sense of remorse for their...

…ey has much more to do with a broken education system, particularly for poorer kids, than the modest number of skilled Asian immigrants who get work visas. The most likely result of limiting these visas is that talented immigrants will simply HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030876

…s, undermine China's carefully nurtured and reasonably successful "charm offensive" toward the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and play right into the U.S. strategy of convincing ASEAN nations that they need its protection from a bullying China? In China, has the...

…k a downturn. The proximate cause was Singapore becoming country coordinator for China for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This post is held by ASEAN member states by rotation for a three-year term. China seemed to have convinced itself that the role entailed...

…tensify into year-end. Across regions we favor EM Asia and Europe vs. the US. While the US is facing fiscal cliffrisks, Asian equities are benefiting from concrete signs that economic activity is rebounding in China. European equities are benefiting from greater improvement in fi...

…ese- language media in the United States. SinoVision, Qiaobao, and the Sino American Times (= 3HET#R) all belong to the Asian Culture and Media Group (2 B= WIL SB). Sources in these firms say that the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of PRC (FEHB BiB iH 4) set...

…ants into the labor force as shown in CHART 1. South Korea is the oldest emerging market with a median age of 41. East Asian economies, including Japan, have grown over the years due to migration from villages to urban centers, resulting in productivity gains that have fueled ec...

…icle 5. Foreign Policy Barack Obama's Foreign Policy November 16, 2011 Article 6. Project Syndicate America in the Asian Century Dominique Moisi HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031941

…ng the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, once implemented will contribute to three UN goals: peace and security of the West Asian/North African region as the new state HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029945

…s accession to “great power” status need not be threatening to either the existing global order or the interests of its Asian neighbors. However, since Party general secretary Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the situation has changed. Under his leadership, China has significant...

…role played by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT). Senator Mansfield was widely consulted in Washington as an Asian affairs expert, meaning his observations arguably had more influence than those of other members. He visited China three times during this period, publish...

…nterviewed six members of the Mira staff, all of whom asked me not to identify them. Te-Ping Chen, a journalist for the Asian edition of The Wall Street Journal, received similar replies when she interviewed Mira hotel employees the day Snowden left the Mira. Chen and Brown, “Sno...

…t Bill was accompanied by the 727's owner, billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, when he landed in the tiny South-East Asian country on May 25, 2002. His entourage also included two women who allegedly worked as "madams" for Epstein, luring teenaged girls into sex trysts with th...