China :: Asia

Does Trump really what to do with China? Apparently the answer is yes to the Trump empire, but not to the rest rest of the world. Trump already got all the intellectual rights from China by calling Taiwan the first he enetered the Whitehouse, and then simply said he endorsed "one Chine Policy". As for the rest of the world, especially China's little neighbouring countries involved in the dispute of the South China Sea ... One will have a better chance of getting an answer by asking the mirror on the wall. How Trump can solve his Chinese puzzle Getting tough with China is a central part of President Donald Trump's plan to "make America great again". During the election campaign, he claimed that China was "raping" American industry. Since the election, he and senior aides have denounced Chinese policies over trade, North Korea and the South China Sea. These facts alone would make Mr Trump's summit meeting this week with China...

Reimagining China and Asia by Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Seventeen years ago, the turn of the 21st century marked a phase change in global geopolitics and economics. The age of Euro-American global dominance that began with Vasco da Gama and Columbus five centuries before is well on the way to ending, if it is not already over. China’s national resurgence is the most recent phase in a half-millennium-long contention between great powers for politico-military control of areas under historic Chinese and Indian influence as well as China and India themselves. Meanwhile, the two-century-old global infatuation with American aspirations for a more moral political order has faded. The Trump administration has replaced previously complacent American assumptions of global supremacy with a whining narrative of victimization by exploitative foreigners. U.S. dominance of the international state system is expiring– a process accelerated by the new administration’s determination to unilaterally d...

Opinion  By Rhondaki Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hit out at the European Union on Friday for hypocrisy and called the bloc "sons of bitches" after its lawmakers issued a resolution calling for restraint and a rethink in his bloody war on drugs. Duterte castigated the EU for urging him to focus his campaign on drugs rehabilitation and stood by his security-centered approach to a crackdown that has left thousands of people dead since he took office nine months ago. He turned angry during a speech to Chinese businessmen, where he praised China for its no-strings-attached loans and aid and said he did not need the EU, or "idiotic" rehabilitation programs that failed to stop addicts committing robbery, rape and murder. "So we're getting a relief now from our hardships because a lot of (Chinese) money is coming in. The EU, they communicated to us, and they want a health-based solution for the drugs. These sons of bitches," he said. The EU...

Asia's Critical News  Asia has become the focus point of the Trump administration. North Korea continues to advance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and China continues to militarize the South China Sea and bully its neighbors such as Taiwan and Japan. Asia is quickly becoming the most important area of the world that effects American interests. Japan is America’s closest military and economic ally, China is America’s largest military and economic rival, and North Korea has now become America’s biggest short-term concern. Below is a succinct summary of the current developing situations in Asia that you should know about. South Korea – President Park Geun-hye has officially been impeached and removed from office after being implicated in a corruption and extortion scandal. A new election will be held within 60 days to elect the new president of South Korea. North Korea – The communist country successfully launched four ballistic missiles, and now appears to be pr...