Sino-U.S. Joint Statement frays nerves of India [ 19:23 November 24 2009]

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Indian side has all these days got perturbed waking or sleeping by the U.S. President Barack Obama's debut visit to China, and the joint statement he signed with the Chinese President Hu Jintao has especially driven Indians crazy. Some Indian media have already gone out of their way to decry the U.S. "missteps" for introducing China to South Asia to "tame India."

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How to respond to Russia's "Ambiguous Diplomacy"? [ 09:32 October 21 2009]

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Tightly pressed by the U.S.-led Western world since the end of the Cold War, and constantly beleaguered by the tit-for-tat measures devised by the West to counterbalance its military might---- just to name a few----NATO's eastward expansion, color revolution and deployment of missile defense system, Russia at times has to turn to China for a relatively sound security environment, but it has thus far remained a fair-weather friend to China, practicing "shadow-boxing" on its China policy.

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Who is gambling on Afghanistan? [ 14:28 October 15 2009]

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Robert D. Kaplan, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, published on Oct.7 a signed commentary entitled Beijing's Afghan Gamble in New York Times, in which he stated that "America is sacrificing its blood and treasure (in Afghanistan), the Chinese will reap the benefits."

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