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Chinese warships sail near Japan island: Tokyo
Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese naval flotilla including destroyers sailed through waters near Japanese islands on Tuesday, in what one commentator said was a sign of things to come ...
Japanese, US troops mull drill to take island: reports
Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)
Japan and the United States are mulling a joint military drill to simulate retaking a remote island from foreign forces, reports said, amid a festering row betw...
Nobel for EU praised in European, not British, press
Oct 13, 2012 (AFP)
European newspapers on Saturday praised the decision to award this year's Nobel Peace prize to the EU, with the notable exception of the British press, most of ...
Chinese political system could 'blow up', says US academic
Oct 13, 2012 (AFP)
China's top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to "blow up at some point," US ...
Crisis-torn EU wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 12, 2012 (AFP)
The Nobel Peace Prize was Friday awarded to the European Union, an institution wracked by the euro crisis but credited with bringing more than half a century of...
EU Nobel prize earns praise and ridicule
Oct 12, 2012 (AFP)
Europe's leaders hailed Friday's award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the EU in recognition of 60 years without war even as critics attacked it as a misplaced...
Nobel peace prize a respite as EU faces testing times
Oct 12, 2012 (AFP)
Friday's Nobel peace prize comes at a testing time for the European Union, praised for entrenching peace and democracy on the continent as it struggles to weath...
Commentary: Home cost of wars
Oct 12, 2012 (UPI)
The American Society of Civil Engineers issued a cry of alarm five years ago in the form of three separate report cards on the state of the nation's infrastruct...
Japan sees US as deterrent in islands dispute
Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)
Japan said Thursday that its alliance with the United States has served as a deterrent in a territorial dispute between Tokyo and a rising China as it called fo...
Mo Yan: Chronicler of a turbulent Chinese century
Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)
Mo Yan has focused an unflinching eye on what he calls the darkness and ugliness of 20th-century Chinese society in a prolific writing career that on Thursday l...
Japan calls for more Myanmar support
Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)
Japan vowed Thursday to resume loans to a reforming Myanmar and called on global creditors of the one-time pariah state to chip in more, chiding China for skipp...
China Voice: U.S. should walk the talk
Oct 11, 2012 (XNA)
In late September, the United States Congressional Research Service amended and republished a report titled "The Senkaku Islands Dispute: U.S. Treaty Obligation...
China 'gaining fast' on US, warns Romney
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
Mitt Romney on Wednesday warned that China was "gaining fast" on the United States and could become the world's top economy, but insisted American manufacturers...
NATO names Allen to succeed Stavridis as supreme commander
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
US General John Allen will take over as NATO supreme commander and be replaced as head of alliance forces in Afghanistan by Joseph Dunford, currently US Marine ...
Chinese nationalists covet Japan's Okinawa
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
In a glass case at Beijing's Imperial College, an 18th century book with a yellowed title page in bold, black characters is evidence -- some Chinese say -- that...
China banks to skip World Bank, IMF talks in Japan
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
Major Chinese banks will skip World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings this week in Japan, China's state media said, in apparent protest over a terri...
The Cuban missile crisis: when the world held its breath
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
Fifty years ago, the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba set off the most acute crisis of the Cold War, and possibly the most dangerous moment in human...
Obama slams Romney on Iraq
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama hit out at his Republican foe Mitt Romney on Iraq Tuesday, warning that America did not need a another president who started wars with...
Walker's World: The regions are restive
Oct 08, 2012 (UPI)
The complexity of the way the euro has been coming apart at the seams is matched by the even more highly charged way that the states of Europe seem to be follow...
Huawei calls US Congress report 'China-bashing'
Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday called a congressional report warning of security risks from its telecom equipment "an exercise in China-bashing" as US lawm...
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