Syria diplomacy helps shuffle global order

By George Gao NEW YORK - When US President Barack Obama tried to drum up momentum for airstrikes in Syria to punish and deter the use of chemical weapons, he failed to gain much of a following. At this month's Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg -...

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A Tale of Two Volunteer Programs: China and Taiwan    By: Kevin McCauley Recent developments have shown the volunteer recruitment systems in Taiwan and China moving on decidedly different trajectories. The Taiwan military’s attempt to implement a volunteer transition fully by the end of 2015, which already faced...

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China and Kazakhstan: Inevitability of Beijing’s Growing Influence   For centuries, China was a major source of wealth for the nomadic peoples of Central Asia: the relationship between the steppe and one of the most developed settled civilizations had been full of both bloody confrontations and prosperous trade....

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CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup   Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The event's reverberations have haunted its orchestrators over the years, contributing...

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