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12 September 2017

*** Negotiating a Path to Dialogue With North Korea

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By Rodger Baker Source Link The path toward dialogue with North Korea looks fainter by the day. Washington is calling for increased ...

*** What Were China's Objectives in the Doklam Dispute?

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Source Link by Jonah Blank At 14,000 feet above sea level and with a perpetually harsh climate, the Doklam Plateau is an enormo...

India's rail counter to China's border game is likely to be ready in a few years' time

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Source Link LEH: At Upshi , 50 km south of Leh, a tiny hillock poses a big challenge to a team of railway survey men. A 16-member squa...

UK media’s anti India bias all too evident

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Source Link By Nitin Mehta London: Ever since India got independence, the British media have painted a negative picture of the country...

Sino-Indian border truce

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Source Link S Nihal Singh The BRICS Summit and the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi J...

US scientists 'hack' India electronic voting machines

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Source Link By Julian Siddle Image captionIndia's voting machines are considered to be among the most tamperproof Scientists...

Sri Lanka: Sovereignty Compromised

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Source Link By Ana Pararajasingham Addressing the Indian Ocean Conference in Colombo on August 31 this year, Sri Lankan Prime Minist...

When the U.S. Government Tried to Fight Communism With Buddhism

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Source Link By JOE FREEMAN  As Buddhist Myanmar is once again in the news for a brutal crackdown on its Rohingya Muslim minority, it...

China’s other Muslims

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Source Link THE faithful are returning from the haj. Waiting for prayers outside the Great Mosque in Tongxin, a remote town in the wes...

Indonesia, Long on Sidelines, Starts to Confront China’s Territorial Claims

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Source Link By JOE COCHRANE JAKARTA, Indonesia — When Indonesia recently — and quite publicly — renamed the northernmost waters of...

Shutting down of old Silk Road exposes China's OBOR hypocrisy

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Source Link CLAUDE ARPI When Beijing today speaks of One Belt One Road, it omits to say there was once a flourishing commerce which ...

Ethnicity factors strongly in PLA promotions

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Source Link By  ZI YANG As China’s 19th Communist Party Congress approaches, the armed forces are preparing for a wide-reaching ...

Israel's Bombing of a Weapons Factory in Syria: What Comes Next?

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Source Link by Elliott Abrams This week Israel bombed a site in Syria, from Lebanese air space. This was the so-called Scientific St...

Saudi embassy may have funded 9/11 'dry run': report

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Source Link New evidence in a 9/11 lawsuit against the government of Saudi Arabia alleges the kingdom's embassy in Washington, D...

Israel's Bombing of a Weapons Factory in Syria: What Comes Next?

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Source Link By Elliott Abrams This week Israel bombed a site in Syria, from Lebanese air space. This was the so-called Scientific St...

Give North Korea a Safe Way to Back Down

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Source Link Patrick M. Cronin Pyongyang needs a face-saving way to walk back provocations. A cardinal principle of strategy ho...

Return of the city-state

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Source Link Jamie Bartlett If you’d been born 1,500 years ago in southern Europe, you’d have been convinced that the Roman empire wo...

The Biggest Myth about North Korea

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Source Link Van Jackson,  Hannah Suh Hint: It has to do with nukes and escalation. A million lives and a trillion dollars. Exper...

Global power is shifting to Asia – and Europe must adapt to that

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Source Link Natalie Nougayrède   In 2012, McKinsey analysts, using data from the University of Groningen, released a striking map sh...

The Ultimate Nightmare: North Korea Could Sell Saudi Arabia Nuclear Weapons

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Source Link Zachary Keck Pakistan won't sell Saudi Arabia a nuclear bomb, but North Korea might. One of the gravest concer...

ELON MUSK WARNS BATTLE FOR AI SUPREMACY WILL SPARK THIRD WORLD WAR

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Source Link LEONID BERSHIDSKY Elon Musk is worried about governments, specifically the Russian one, competing for artificial inte...

Fighting in Three Realms: Democratic, Autocratic, and Ideological

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Source Link By Stanley J. Wiechnik “The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgement that the statesmen and commander ...

This is how your world could end

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Source Link Peter Brannen Many of us share some dim apprehension that the world is flying out of control, that the centre cannot hol...

Nato chief: world is at its most dangerous point in a generation

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Source Link Daniel Boffey Exclusive: Jens Stoltenberg warns of converging threats as Russia mobilises estimated 100,000 troops on EU...

How the CIA is Using Artificial Intelligence to Collect Social Media Data

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Source Link The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) requires large quantities of data, collected from a variety of sources...

New malware steals users’ money through mobile phones: Kaspersky

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Source Link New Delhi: A new malware Xafecopy Trojan has been detected in India which steals money through victims’ mobile phones, cyb...

New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph

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Source Link Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according ...

Cambridge University could allow laptops and iPads for exams amid fear young people are losing ability to write

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Source Link Luke Mintz Cambridge University is considering axing compulsory written exams and allowing students to use laptops or iP...

EU runs its first-ever cyber war game exercise

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Source Link European Union defence ministers have staged a cyber attack simulation in a bid to work out exactly how good - or otherw...
11 September 2017

U.S open final

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As expected Rafa has won the US Open his 16th Grand Slam in straight sets 3,3 and 4. Nadal was supreme. Did not give a sniff of a chan...

*** Why North Korea Won't Stop

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Source Link North Korea has indeed conducted its sixth nuclear test . The U.S. Geological Service and the China Earthquake Administrat...

*** Former State Dept. Cyber Coordinator Says It Was a Mistake to Close His Office

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Source Link BY JOSEPH MARKS When Chris Painter became the State Department’s first cyber coordinator in 2011, he had no internationa...