Search results for: Mark S. Cogan
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Are China and the U.S. Heading for Open Confrontation?
...prompted the U.S. scholar Mark Valencia to argue that these two countries are in a new “cold war”, and if not controlled well, the “cold war” might escalate into “hot...
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Amending Japan’s Pacifist Constitution
...as to mark a new era for the country. In recent years, support for altering the constitution has steadily risen, and some polls have estimated that the Japanese populace is...
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China’s Role in UN Peacekeeping
...office as Chinese leader from the late 1970s to the end of the 1980s did mark a softening in China’s position on peacekeeping and its broader engagement with the outside...
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Breaking the Mould: Trump’s China Policy
...trustworthy partners. For the most part, this premise turned out to be false.” Passages like this mark a clear departure from the Obama administration, making reference to China as a...
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Dreams and Nightmares: Turkey’s Unspoken Drift towards Civil War
...The sustained clashes in urban areas that have wracked southeast Turkey in recent months mark a new stage in the decades-old insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and...
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It’s Time for the European Union to Talk to North Korea
...Brussels has an ostensible policy of “critical engagement” towards North Korea. This approach combines sanctions, humanitarian aid and dialogue. But since 2016 there have been many sanctions and no...
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Compatible Interests? The EU and China’s Belt and Road Initiative
...down several sectors of China’s economy by allowing the development of new opportunities for Chinese enterprises confronted with a saturated domestic market. It is also connected to China’s transition to...
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Snapshot of the U.S.-China Trade War
...from China’s use of protectionist trade policies, such as export duties and quotas, state subsidies, restrictions on market access, and deliberate intellectual property rights (IPR) theft. Beijing, on the other...
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Rehabilitating North Korea’s Forests: The Struggle to Balance Conservation with Livelihoods
...and heating in rural areas. Despite the use of private kitchen gardens and food markets to alleviate the deficiencies of the public food distribution system, more than 10 million people...
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Turkey’s Russia Affair
...dependencies, and Turkey represents a lucrative market. This strategy has worked well. Turkey has become the black sheep within NATO. It is very likely that the deepening of relations between...