Month: September 2018

Opinion | Trump to China: ‘I Own You.’ Guess Again. – by Thomas Friedman – NYT

September 26, 2018 / China, Foreign Affairs and U.S.ForeignPolicy

Shopping in China “Early in the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” a Chinese-Singaporean father admonishes his young kids to finish their dinner, saying, “Think of all the starving children in America.” I’m sure that everyone of my generation in the theater laughed at that joke. After all, we’d all been raised on the line: “Finish your …

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Opinion | That Thing That India and Pakistan Do – The New York Times

September 26, 2018 / India and Sri Lanka

By Mohammed Hanif Mr. Hanif is a Pakistani novelist.    Sept. 26, 2018 ImageThe Pakistani military in Karachi this month commemorating its second war with India in 1965. Both sides claimed victory.CreditCreditAsif Hassan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “KARACHI, Pakistan — Four years ago when India elected the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) to power, Pakistan’s iconic …

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How to Stop Poaching and Protect Endangered Species? Forget the ‘Kingpins’ – by Rachel Nuwer – NYT

September 25, 2018 / The Sixth Extinction of Species

By Rachel Nuwer     Sept. 24, 2018 “In 2003, enterprising criminals in Southeast Asia realized that they could exploit a loophole in South Africa’s hunting laws to move rhino horns legally across international borders. Normally, North Americans and Europeans account for the bulk of South Africa’s rhino hunting permits. But that year, 10 Vietnamese “hunters” quietly …

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Editorial | Will Donald Trump Stand Up to China? – The New York Times

September 20, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China

“President Xi Jinping has imposed China’s most sweeping internment program since Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when more than one million people were killed and millions of others were imprisoned, tortured and humiliated. Citing credible reports, a United Nations panel last month said up to one million Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority, are being held in detention camps without benefit of …

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