Articles tagged with: China
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
The fight for Iraqi oil is a story smugly told. Countless observers have remarked on the irony of Western firms’ withdrawal from southern Iraqi oil fields and the flurry of new contracts between Baghdad and Beijing, in what International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol termed “the B–B axis.” Chinese producers from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), and the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) have snatche...
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Monday, 11 Mar, 2013
As the jewel in a rather unpleasant dictatorship’s crown, Almaty was perhaps a strange choice of venue for the latest round of nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran two weeks ago. Nonetheless, reaction coming out of the talks—the first time Iran had met with the P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) in eight months—is tentatively positive.
In terms of tangible results, there was nothing beyond an agreement between the two sides to meet again. Twice, in fact: once f...
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Thursday, 22 Nov, 2012
It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones film: a team of archaeologists battling against time and terrorist attacks to save an ancient site from imminent destruction. Yet unfo...
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Thursday, 8 Nov, 2012
He won—but he won ugly.
The same US president who first captured the White House in poetry and governed in competent—if lackluster—prose has been re-elected despite an...
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Wednesday, 10 Oct, 2012
Opening his speech on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute, Mitt Romney hailed George Marshall, the sage VMI alumnus who went on to become America’s chief military p...
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Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2012
It’s hard to feel sorry for China’s leadership, populated as it is by autocrats and oligarchs with little regard for the liberal yearnings of its people. And while China’s ec...
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On 2 August Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and the current UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, announced from Geneva that he would not renew his mand...
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Thursday, 19 Jul, 2012
Details are still sketchy today following yesterday’s news that an explosion in Syria’s national security headquarters in Damascus had killed or injured several high-ranking of...
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Friday, 29 Jun, 2012
The new peace initiative from the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, has already run into trouble, receiving criticism from both the Syrian government and the rebel...
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Monday, 11 Jun, 2012
Vladmir Putin arrived this past week in Beijing to discuss the crisis in Syria which has become a moment to score diplomatic points against the United States as much as it is to pr...
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