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Taiwanese president Lai’s Pacific tour is more important than it looks
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s visit last week to three independent Pacific island states was more important than it ...
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Just look at the lights: Assad’s territory was growing poorer as opposition’s economy advanced
Explanation is in illumination. To understand why the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell so suddenly in Syria in the past week, ...
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Instability in Pacific politics? Yes, but it’s stable instability
Political instability in the Pacific isn’t significantly increasing. It just feels like it—with the recent dissolution of ...