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By Karim Rahemtulla, Investment Director Oil & Energy Daily Back in March, we talked about Myanmar – and the massive investment opportunity taking shape there. I know it sounds like an obscure country with limited prospects, but I assure you, it’s not. And I’ll have even more information for you once I get back from the Myanmar 2013 Investment Summit in Hong Kong. But today, Read More …
By NESTOR MATA MALAYA ‘China’s new President Xi Jinping first coined the slogan after taking power late last year, and since then many China-watchers have wondered what exactly is his dream.’ AFTER China’s new President Xi Jinping took over power late last year, he coined the slogan “Chinese Dream.” He did it at an exhibition called “The Road to Renewal” at Beijing’s grandiose National Museum, Read More …
Food problems, environmental threats and negligence are challenging the credibility of China’s new leaders By Jonathan Fenby The Guardian Rat meat dressed up as lamb, adulterated milk and baby formula, substandard school textbooks – the Chinese have plenty to be concerned about right now apart from the perennial problems of pollution and growing concern about falling economic growth. The country’s new leader, Xi Jinping, has Read More …
China has opened another territorial dispute — Okinawa and the Ryuku islands. What’s next? — PERRY DIAZ Land grab threatens Asia’s island paradise By Mark Elliott Travel Daily Asia When you think of Asian islands, what immediately comes to mind? Tourists relaxing on white sandy beaches, dipping their toes in the clear blue waters? Or warships encircling rocky outcrops, ready to plant flags in the Read More …
By Alexis Romero The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – A Chinese fishing fleet composed of 30 vessels sailed on Monday from Hainan province to the disputed Spratly islands in the West Philippine Sea for a “40-day operation,” a report in the state-run China Daily said yesterday. “The 40-day operation is the second of its kind organized by local fishery associations after Sansha city was established Read More …
By Dean Cheng The Foundry Heritage.org Amidst all the regional concerns about North Korea, the Senkaku dispute between China and Japan has continued to fester. This past week, the situation has escalated, with the Chinese Foreign Ministry specifically stating that the Senkakus are a “core interest.” General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that the Chinese had used this term Read More …
Xi Jinping’s recent visit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders says as much about the United States as it does about China. By Matt Schiavenza The Atlantic Solving the Israel/Palestine crisis has long been the holy grail of American foreign policy — an elusive goal that each successive president has strived to achieve. Like moths to a flame, American presidents cannot resist the temptation to solve Read More …
Not content with her territorial disputes in South China Sea and the Senkaku Islands, China is now questioning Japan’s ownership of Okinawa and the rest of the Ryuku archipelago. I think China is pushing her territorial claims to the limit. Is China going to war with Japan over these islands? — PERRY DIAZ China questions Okinawa ownership Source: Japan Times Bloomberg Two scholars from an Read More …
By NESTOR MATA MALAYA ‘The emergent superpower has been intruding not only in territorial waters, islands and shoals of the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations, but also in India’s side of the Himalayan border.’ JUST like what China has been doing in the territorial waters, islands and shoals of the Philippines and other Southeast Asian neighbors which it claims to be parts of the Read More …
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc The Philippine Star Malaysia’s election results were being tallied as this column went to press yesterday. Malaysian and foreign reporters acknowledged it was too close to call. The 46-year ruling party of Prime Minister Najib Razak would be left either debilitated or facing its first-ever handover of power. If opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim wins the majority, Manila and the rest of Read More …