The author is associate professor of the Institute of International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University. This year marks an eventful time in China-India relations. At the beginning of the year, India media collectively criticized the Chinese government, alleging China adopted double standards against terrorism. In June, India suffered a setback in its bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) after the group’s members, including China, opposed the bid but India has singled out…
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Relations between China and Myanmar took a positive turn this month during Aung San Suu Kyi’s five-day visit to China as Myanmar’s de facto leader. But both sides have yet to work out their differences over the deadlocked Myitsone dam project, which strained bilateral ties five years ago when it was suspended by the Myanmarese government, casting fresh uncertainty over efforts to put bilateral ties back on track. If they value their relationship so much,…
Children had to walk over a “mountain of waste” to get to their school in northern China on the first day of classes after the summer break, according to a news website. The refuse blocked a road used by many children to get to the campus in Zhengzhou in Henan province, Eastday.com. The refuse was mainly construction waste and covered an area 50 metres long and was two metres high, according to the article. Some…
The reviewer is a Staff Writer for Conservative Review, focusing on religion and culture. 2015 was the deadliest year for jihadist terror activity on American soil since the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. In the decade and a half since that tragic day in New York City, the world has been forced to come to grips with a widespread and insidious enemy that poses an existential threat not only to the…
The reviewer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. THE TERROR YEARS By Lawrence Wright Knopf, 366 pages, $28.95 No book about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has won as much acclaim, and deservedly so, as Lawrence Wright’s “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.” Its multi-talented author, a long time writer for the New Yorker, even staged a one-man play, “My Trip to Al-Qaeda,”…