Tag: China
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Human Rights Tossed? UN elects Russia, China for Human Rights Council
This membership can be easily leveraged by the two nations to justify the impeachment of human rights in their own respective countries. What’s laughable is that Russia and China are both communist countries who see human rights as a threat to their existence. This decision obviously brings the UN Human Rights Council’s credibility at stake.
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One Belt One Road: The Chinese Expressway of Global Economic Dominance
In the 21st Century, China has seen itself as a leader of the Developing World. In the early years of Communist China its leader Mao Zedong presented the country as a champion for the developing world and provided like-minded regimes with both military and development assistance. In the 1970s, following Mao’s death, China focussed its…
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Redder than Red: The Rise of Xi Jinping
For a man who has accrued unlimited power and today sits as one of the most powerful leaders on the global table, transparency has been a weakness. Chinese Xi Jinping’s rise in the Chinese political framework has been debatable and mysterious, adding to the hysteria around the communist party and its leader Xi himself. Graphics…
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The Decade of a Financially Strong China and India’s Wait For The Turn
Coming out of pools of data, how China made its own mark in the world economy and how India is getting ready to beat it Its been a decade now since Lehman brothers, Investment banking company went bankrupt triggering the world economic crisis of 2008. 2008 crisis was as bad as the 1930s global economic…
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The Unspoken Agenda: What Would Xi say to Kim?
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping visits N.Korea before he meets Trump at G-20, a reunion of two leaders that are at different conflicts with the United States In my blog published on 18 June 2018 Trump-Kim Summit: What’s in it for stakeholders?, I mentioned that the loser out of the renewed relationship between Kim and…
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Yemen Endures: Saudi and Iran’s Proxy War in ‘The Happy Land’
A Rebel Group Backed By Iran, A Government Backed By Saudi Arabia, A President Struggling to Survive…. all this at the cost of human lives In Yemen. Before we talk about the ongoing Yemen civil war, in which 65,000 lives have been lost since 2015, it is imperative to understand the difference between a war…
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