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On Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watch, China has more than doubled its trade surplus with India and the PLA has continued to encroach on disputed territories.

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India’s appeasement policy toward China unravels

by Brahma Chellaney

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “not in a good mood,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently declared, as he offered to mediate India’s resurgent border conflict with China. After years of bending over backward to appease China, Modi has received yet another Chinese encroachment on Indian te...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 17 pays a two-minute silence tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives the day before in a border brawl with Chinese troops.

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Modi’s resolute China policy

by Sujan R. Chinoy

Recently a commentary in The Japan Times titled “India’s appeasement policy toward China unravels” questioned India’s policy toward China. India and China have many outstanding issues including border disputes, the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and China’s close security ties with Pakistan against...

Hua Chunying, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, responded on May 30 to a U.S. State Department criticism of Beijing's Hong Kong policy by tweeting "I can't breathe."

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With support for Black Lives Matter, China crosses a thin line

by Jo Kim

While it is questionable whether the Chinese government genuinely cares about universal human rights and racial equality, its propaganda apparatus has seemingly become an active “supporter” of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement — mostly in the form of lambasting the U.S. government and ...

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Biden obviously has dementia and should withdraw from the race

by Ted Rall

The Democrats ought to be ashamed of themselves. They spent the last four years criticizing Donald Trump in no small part for his mental state, and rightly so. The founding fathers included an impeachment provision in the Constitution in large part as a contingency to remove a president exactly l...

People commute in Tokyo on June 5. Researchers have found that death rates were lower in countries like Japan that have a combination of high government efficiency and high cultural “tightness” — strong norms and a pressure for conformance.

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Is Japan’s low COVID-19 death rate due to a ‘higher cultural level’?

by Rochelle Kopp

I was sent scrambling for my dictionary on June 4 when Finance Minister Taro Aso declared that the different "mindo" between Japan and other countries was the reason behind Japan’s low COVID-19 death rate. A quintessentially nebulous Japanese word, mindo denotes the standard of living and cult...