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US and China face growing risk of military clashes as conflict intensifies

10/11/2018, 5:15:16 AM
Washington-Beijing ties threaten to get much worse before they can possibly be stabilized ✔ The debate within the walls of Zhongnanhai (the leadership compound) is not whether China should respond to Trump's pressure with hard or soft tactics, but how hard Chinese response should be ✔ Minxin Pei is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States


The new Venezuela? Brazil populist Bolsonaro's scare tactic gains traction

10/11/2018, 7:24:11 AM
The far-right candidate has sought, with little evidence, to link his Worker’s party opponent to Brazil’s neighbour’s troubles ✔ They want to transform our flag into a red flag – the flag of communism! declared Cleuzenir Barbosa, a member of Bolsonaro’s party in Minas Gerais state, warning that moral decay and severe communism lurked behind the PT’s beautiful and serene words ✔ The assertion drew scorn from political opponents and Latin America experts, with a Washington Post fact check noting drily: We are unaware of any Democratic leader that has pointed to Venezuela as an economic model


Currency war looms amid trade dispute

10/11/2018, 5:59:02 AM
undefined ✔ President Trump has openly criticized China, Germany, Japan and Korea for manipulating their currencies to rip off and cheat the U.S. The value of China's yuan has been falling near the psychological threshold of 7 yuan per U.S. dollar ✔ The government, however, said the agreement is nonbinding and not part of the bilateral trade deal, but only the extension of the G20 and IMF's solidarity against unfair currency devaluation


Pompeo says no more U.S. reconstruction aid to Syria if Iran stays

10/11/2018, 5:09:14 AM
The United States will refuse any additional reconstruction assistance to war-torn Syria so long as Iranian troops are present in the country, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. Speaking to a pro-Israel group, Pompeo vowed to press forward with President Donald Trump's push to isolate Iran, boasting of… ✔ The United States has some 2,000 troops in Syria, mainly training and advising rebels, after former President Barack Obama authorized the mission to defeat the Islamic State extremist group, or IS ✔ Trump in August already pulled out of Syria's immediate reconstruction, suspending $230 million after pledges by Gulf Arab allies


Analysis | Under Trump, U.S. enters a new ‘Cold War’ with China

10/11/2018, 5:22:08 AM
The White House is pushing harder on China, and Beijing seems more than willing to push back. ✔ We demand the U.S. stop such misguided actions, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a news conference, referring to Washington’s harsh words as well as to the trade tensions that have cast a shadow over relations ✔ Yet, one day, we will wake up and realize that Asia has irrevocably changed


Will the ‘Bulava’ Submarine-Launched Missile ‘Save Russia’?

10/11/2018, 6:35:39 AM
As the Salisbury saga continues and the world prepares for the drama and humanitarian calamity of the Idlib battle in Syria, leading journalists and scholars alike remain seemingly oblivious to the most concrete and ultimately dangerous manifestations of the new Cold War between the United States an ✔ In particular, the author maintains that Russia’s Project 667  Delta -class [Дельфин] SSBNs or so-called boomer submarines are now obsolete ✔ That machine also happens to consume vast sums of Americans’ national wealth that could be put to far more constructive uses


UAE violating Somalia arms embargo: Report

10/11/2018, 6:47:59 AM
Abu Dhabi also accused of building an army base in Somaliland, according to an unpublished UN report seen by Al Jazeera. ✔ In September 2017, maritime police in the Somali state of Puntland intercepted a ship heading from Yemen to Somalia and seized weapons found on board, the international team of experts said ✔ The Security Council imposed an arms embargo on Somalia in 1992 to cut a flow of arms to feuding armed groups, who ousted President Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged the country into war


Best Part of Russia's S-400 Sales Is How they Degrade US Relations With Other Powers

10/11/2018, 4:46:36 AM
On October 5, 2018, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Russian president Vladimir Putin signed off in New Delhi on a deal to transfer five advanced S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems in exchange for $5.43 billion—Delivery of the S-400s is to follow in two years. ✔ On October 5, 2018, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Russian president Vladimir Putin signed off in New Delhi on a deal to transfer five advanced S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems in exchange for $5.43 billion Delivery of the S-400s is to follow in two years ✔ When the United States imposed an arms embargo on India due to the 1965 Indo-Pakistani conflict, the Soviet Union stepped into the gap


Fate of Saudi journalist tests U.S.-Saudi relationship

10/11/2018, 5:17:35 AM
Under pressure from Congress, the Trump administration faces a dilemma: how to r... ✔ If they’re this brazen it shows contempt, contempt for everything we stand for, contempt for the relationship ✔ I don’t want to prejudge, but if it goes down the road that I’m worried about it going down, contempt will be met with contempt, he said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


US outcry grows over Khashoggi with lawmakers demanding action

10/11/2018, 5:22:13 AM
Analysts say Saudi journalist's suspected assassination likely to mark a turning point in US-Saudi relations. ✔ It's obvious this has reached beyond anything else, said Medea Benjamin, a leader and co-founder of the CodePink anti-war group, who has been challenging US officials on American military support for the Saudi campaign in Yemen ✔ Inside Story Is Khashoggi the latest victim of Saudi's crackdown on dissent


Erdogan says Turkey-U.S. deal on Syria's Manbij 'not dead': Hurriyet

10/11/2018, 6:17:25 AM
The deal between Turkey and the United States regarding the northern Syrian town... ✔ Washington’s support for the YPG militia in the fight against the Islamic State group has infuriated Ankara, which sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ✔ The PKK, considered a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union and Turkey, has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Climate change will make the next global crash the worst | Larry Elliott

10/11/2018, 5:10:23 AM
The storm clouds are gathering, but the world’s economies have far fewer shelters from disaster than they did in 1929, says Larry Elliott ✔ Late last month Indonesia was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left thousands of people dead and missing ✔ Ominously, next year is the 90th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash ✔ The Great Depression that followed that market meltdown led to new economic thinking


Why the US is engineering political change in East Africa

10/11/2018, 7:22:20 AM
The competition between great powers has triggered a string of major political developments in East Africa. ✔ Eritrea's President, Isaias Afwerki receives a key from Ethiopia's PM Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa on July 16, 2018 ✔ US' shifting policies The shift in US priorities in East Africa has also introduced a number of other major changes in the region


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