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China’s latest South China Sea shocks reopen old wounds

The epicenter of the latest South China Sea tensions is near the Philippines, but the shock waves have reverberated across several countries. The new bump in tensions results from two developments in late May and early June. First, the Philippine government announced the

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Trump’s Cuba strategy is economic genocide

Cuba has been under a US trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a comprehensive embargo on all trade with Cuba. And while every subsequent administration has tried since to cause pain and suffering to the

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The case against enhanced US intelligence sharing with Israel

Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to

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The lost West Bank

With heavyweight Middle East wars going on in Lebanon and Iran, the low-intensity continual takeover of the West Bank by Israel hardly makes a ripple on the world geopolitical scene. The Israeli government has unleashed multiple weapons to subdue the West Bank, a territory long

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South Korean ballot controversy sparks a new youth movement

A week after South Korea’s local elections, the country’s political conversation is shifting in an unexpected direction. On June 10, a public opinion survey showed support for the conservative People Power Party at 41.6%, slightly ahead of the Democratic Party’s 40.4%, despite

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