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This month, the President also approved the sale of $6 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory. That provoked further anger from Beijing. Three senior Chinese military officers were quoted in an official newspaper suggesting that the government should sell some U.S. Treasury bonds...
Though half of the Rohingya who make their way to Bangladesh are taken in by local families until they find their feet, it's been a fragile relationship. Many are competing for jobs with the Rohingya, who are often willing to work for less than Bangladeshis. Others worry that armed...
In recent weeks, China's government made it clear that any meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama threatened to further damage already tense Sino-U.S. relations. But after the President held an hour-long talk on Thursday at the White House with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader...
China's holdings of U.S. government bonds did drop by 4% to $755 billion, the U.S. Treasury Department reported this week, but those numbers are from December, before the recent downturn in ties. China's vast holdings of U.S. debt give it only limited leverage, because any partial sell-off...
So why the new insecurity in the region? Two reasons are terrorists and drug smugglers, who have been attracted to West Africa by its weak governments and whose presence has weakened them further. First, the region has become a staging ground for operations by militant Islamists calling themselves al-Qaeda...