Experts say the campaign is a way for the Chinese leader to keep the country's total power close to his chest
RED TIDE China purges NINE top generals as Xi Jinping continues ‘Stalin-like’ crackdown with hundreds of officials ‘erased’
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The newly elected far-right President of Argentina, Javier Milei decided not to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, saying that the timing for Argentina’s membership in the bloc is not opportune.…
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After a stellar pre-Christmas week, crypto stocks lost their luster in the last week of the year, with three of the five weakest financial names being bitcoin miners.
For the last five sessions of the week, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEARC…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has directed the Coast Guard to enhance its operations to assert sovereignty over the East China islets, currently under Tokyo’s control but also claimed by Beijing, as reported by Japan’s Kyodo news agency on Saturday.&#82…

Open this photo in gallery: Taiwan President and Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate William Lai, from left, Taiwan's Nationalist Party presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih and Taiwan's Taiwan People's Party (TPP) presiden…

A primary factor contributing to the fentanyl epidemic in the United States may be the smuggling of the drug through legal trade flows, according to a report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).…
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A parade of US officials have descended upon Israel and Arab countries in recent weeks to meet local leaders and determine an end-game to the Israel-Hamas war.
They followed President Biden, who sat in on Israel’s War Cabinet back in October.…
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China has undertaken a significant reshuffle in its military parliament, expelling nine officials including four generals from the army’s strategic missile unit, following the appointment of a new defence minister.
The changes include the removal of fi…

2024 will be a landmark year: dozens of elections across the world, unresolved conflicts in Ukraine and Israel-Gaza to address, and further milestones expected in everything from global temperatures to space exploration and artificial intelligence.&#82…

Taking to social media platform X Friday evening, CM Sarma posted that the signing of the ULFA peace accord was a “historic day” and brought down curtains on the “oldest armed resistance” in the state.…
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Although it was somewhat long in the offing, the over a decade-long peace dialogue with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) [Pro-Talk] finally reached a logical conclusion on December 29, 2023, with representatives of the Government of India led…

According to Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Japanese authorities are preparing a “Digital Antitrust Law”. This new law will require Apple, Google and other companies to open “application sideloading” and “third-party payment” in the Japanese market.”……

(Bloomberg) — Shipping costs are rising as hundreds of container ships that typically transit the key maritime artery of the Red Sea and Suez Canal are rerouting after a multitude of attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militants.…
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(Bloomberg) — Shipping costs are rising as hundreds of container ships that typically transit the key maritime artery of the Red Sea and Suez Canal are rerouting after a multitude of attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militants.…
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Three years after steep Chinese tariffs halted imports of Australian barley as tensions between the two countries ratcheted higher, the grain is once again flowing freely.
Key points: Australian barley prices dropped when China announced an 80.5 per ce…

Despite this apparent advantage, Vajpayee’s gentle nature and aversion to small talk kept Bush from fully leveraging their rapport, as Sibal observed. “Bush knew his background. He kept calling him ‘sir’, behaving like a little boy,” Sibal said.……

On my WhatsApp chat with myself, the phrase “for me 2023 was” was auto-completed with “unhinged and I was just trying to be funny”. While my attempts at humour are questionable, I do see the world being quite “unhinged”.…
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Taiwan’s election on 13 January is the first of more than 40 national elections to be held around the world in 2024. It will determine the presidency and legislature governing 23.5 million people on an island that is similar in size to Belgium.…
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Fiona Hill: As she sees it, middle powers or swing states in the major world regions – such as India, Indonesia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria or Turkey – seek to cut the United States down to size, assert their own interests and values in their neighb…

China named former Navy chief Dong Jun as its new defence minister on Friday replacing Li Shangfu who was sacked earlier this year during a series of unexplained dismissals of military and political leaders.…
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The world is moving ahead at breakneck speed. In 2023 we have had one more war that is roiling geopolitics and upending the global order as we knew it. We have the Israel-Hamas war, which may have started as a limited operation to teach the Palestinian…