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Outside View: State of the Union and crafting a winning GOP strategy
Jan 27, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. President Barack Obama, dogged by the bungled rollout of the Affordable Care Act and a slow economic recovery, is declaring war on inequality. An age-old p...
China to modernise before boosting global role: official
Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)
China's new leadership will focus on modernising the country before it increases Beijing's role in international affairs, a top official told the Davos forum on...
U.S. comments on Cameron-EU bother Britons
Jan 25, 2013 (UPI)
Britons are increasingly worried that U.S. concerns over British Prime Minister David Cameron's quarrel with the European Union may lead to major differences wi...
Japan PM's letter appeal to China leader
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
Japanese premier Shinzo Abe made a direct appeal to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping for the two countries to improve relations amid their bitter row o...
China's Xi given Japan PM's letter amid islands row
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
An envoy from Tokyo handed Chinese leader Xi Jinping a personal letter from new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday, in a meeting aimed at smoothing re...
Former Chinese leader takes step back: reports
Jan 24, 2013 (AFP)
Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin has requested a lower rank in the Communist Party protocol, according to state media, with experts saying Thursday he bowed to...
Taiwan boat returns after Japan water cannon duel
Jan 24, 2013 (AFP)
A boat with Taiwanese activists who had intended to land on disputed Japanese-controlled islands returned home Thursday after coastguard vessels from the two si...
Kerry vows to strengthen 'critical' China ties
Jan 24, 2013 (AFP)
Senator John Kerry, on track to be America's next secretary of state, told US lawmakers on Thursday that he would work to boost ties with China, but warned of a...
Outside View: NATO RIP
Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)
A recent half-day conference at a major Washington think tank on "the budget and U.S. defense strategy" was most telling for what was dramatically omitted from ...
Outside View: Bob Gates' 'Duty'
Jan 22, 2013 (UPI)
Last week's release of Bob Gates' "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War" was preceded by his publisher's brilliant public relations campaign hyping the book with...
Japanese PM holds out olive branch to China
Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)
Hawkish Japanese premier Shinzo Abe held out an olive branch to China on Tuesday, sending a letter to Beijing's leader-in-waiting to be hand-delivered by a coal...
Russia ready for seeking a compromise with NATO on air defense
Jan 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russia is ready to discuss the prospects of further cooperation in air defense with NATO, the head of the Russian army's General Staff General Valery Gerasimov ...
Outside View: What Obama can learn
Jan 22, 2013 (UPI)
Having met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington to work out the post-2014 mission for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama could ...
China media urge Obama to ease distrust
Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese state media said on Monday they were "cautiously optimistic" that in his second term US President Barack Obama would improve ties strained by distrust a...
Obama issues inaugural call for unity, equality
Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)
President Barack Obama inaugurated his second term Monday with an ardent call for unity, but warned his foes their "absolutism" must not thwart action on climat...
Three Chinese ships in disputed island waters: Japan
Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)
Three Chinese government ships entered waters around islands at the centre of a dispute with Tokyo on Monday, the day after China rebuked the United States for ...
Relocation of Marine's Okinawa base will go ahead
Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)
The Japanese government said the relocation of U.S. Marine base Futenma on Okinawa island to Nago city will go ahead despite opposition by the re-elected mayor ...
US position on Japan island dispute a 'betrayal': China
Jan 19, 2013 (AFP)
Veiled US warnings to Beijing not to challenge Japan's control of disputed islands encouraged Tokyo's "dangerously right-leaning" government and "betrayed" Wash...
China media seize on Japan ex-PM's memorial visit
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
China's state-run media on Friday seized on an apology by former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama during a visit to a wartime atrocity memorial, amid tens...
Clinton stands by Japan on China island row
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a veiled warning Friday to China not to challenge Japan's control of disputed islands as Tokyo's new government vow...
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