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From the enigmatic Easter Island in the East to the dying Aral Sea in the West, Asia is a land of contrasts: two great civilizations – India and China – deserts, hugely populated areas and a great number of indigenous people struggling for their survival.
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New Silk Roads define brand China
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Belt and Road Initiative is a strategic axis embodying the organizing Chinese foreign policy concept for the next three decades
Shanghai and computer connectivity. Image: iStock
The New Silk Roads symbolize way more than high-speed rail lines ...
India: How Kerala fought the heaviest deluge in nearly a century
Tricontinental
During the summer of 2018, the Indian state of Kerala was hit by severe rains and floods – the heaviest in nearly a century – affecting 5.4 million people. What followed was one of the most successful rescue and relief efforts in India’ ...
S-400s don’t solve India’s geostrategic dilemma
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
But Modi emphasizes that Russia has always 'stood shoulder-to-shoulder with India in the energy sector and our goals'
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on October 4, 2018. Photo: ...
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Will there ever be Justice for Rohingya muslims?
- Arshad M. Khan
There is an image engraved in our minds of a stoic, reserved, elegant Aung San Suu Kyi unbending in ...
Greater Eurasia coming together in the Russian Far East
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok has become a crucial part of strategic integration between ...
No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims
- Ajit Singh अजीत सिंह ਅਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ - Ben Norton בן נורטון بن نورتن
Media outlets from Reuters to The Intercept falsely claimed the UN had condemned China for holding a ...
Cross-country strikes in China reveal pressure from below
- Zhàn Dòu Zhě 战斗者
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The story of Solapur, India, where housing cooperatives are building a workers’ city
- Tricontinental
Mass housing projects in Solapur, India, prove that the sheer strength of workers’ sustained movements, ...
Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits
- Julia Carrie Wong - Jon Letman
Attorneys for Facebook’s CEO have filed suits against hundreds of Hawaiians centered around his ...
Sexy metal: the missing element in the Korean puzzle
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo knows the importance of rare earth elements, and North Korea has ...
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