June 2016

The Philippine Foreign Relation under ‘Pivot’ and ‘Freedom of Navigation’
Paul Mcleary with Adam Ramsley publish a newsletter Situation Report for Foreign Policy. The report focuses mainly on Middle East and battles and wars therein as they occur. Lately, it is noticed that the newsletter has increased ‘situation contents about China and South China Sea’. The following two excerpts are examples appeared in their April 4, 2016 report: “Japan just made a port call [Defense...
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Why Does China Keep Increasing Her Defense Budget?
As the U.S. and China become the two largest economies in the world, the complexity of their relationship goes beyond trades, investments, cultural exchange, and education. In fact, in the area of technology (including space) and military, there seem to be more competition and concern casting uneasiness into the future of the US-China relationship. If you sensed that the U.S. had begun to sound off...
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Tibet and Tibetans We Come to Understand
To most people in the world, Tibet remains a mysterious land of snows having beautiful high mountains and being a pilgrimage holy place of religion. The Himalayan peaks kept most parts of Tibet difficult to reach and numerous world mountaineers dreaming to visit. To Chinese, Tibet is a part of the vast Western China, remote and unique in culture representing four principal minorities and Han immigrants...
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