China can still salvage 'one country, two systems' in Hong Kong – here's how
Jan 07, 2020 15:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Authorities in Hong Kong may have hoped to start 2020 by putting a turbulent period of sustained, often violent protests behind them. Instead hundreds of thousands of protesters ushered in the new year by taking to the...
In Iran showdown, conflict could explode quickly – and disastrously
Jan 07, 2020 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Despite the claims of optimists, the odds that an international conflict will snowball into a bloody war havent gone down significantly since the end of World War II. Trump administration officials confidence that the...
Jan 07, 2020 15:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
US President Donald Trump has not held back on threatening Iran after the targeted killing of General Qassem Soleimani, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and a key player in expanding Irans links with armed...
Qassem Suleimani air strike: why this is a dangerous escalation of US assassination policy
Jan 06, 2020 17:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The US government has killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the elite wing of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards, in an air strike that took place in the early hours of January...
Jan 06, 2020 16:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views
President Donald Trumps policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The presidents approach has the support neither of Americas allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy made even more confrontational...
US-China trade deal: 3 fundamental issues remain unresolved
Dec 14, 2019 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
The U.S. and China have reportedly reached a so-called phase one deal in their ongoing trade war. While few details have been disclosed, the agreement principally seems to involve the U.S. calling off a new round of...
How the China-US trade war will affect your holiday shopping
Dec 11, 2019 04:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
With more tariffs on Chinese imports set to take effect this month, holiday shoppers in the U.S. face a dilemma: buy the Apple iPhone 11 or Hasbro toy action figures now or risk facing higher prices later. On Dec. 15,...
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