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بلدة جيبوتي الأفريقية صعدت ك"كازابلانكا" معاصرة تضج بالمؤلمرلت الجيوبوليتيكية. صورة أرشيفية لهمفري بوجارت في الفيلم الكلاسيكي الذي صدر في 1942. صورة: YouTube

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Djibouti: the Casablanca of a new Cold War

by Bertil Lintner November 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli (R) reviews a military honor guard with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 21, 2018. Photo: AFP/Greg Baker

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, Bhutan, China, India, Middle East, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tianjin, World

China reaching deeper and deeper into Nepal

by Bertil Lintner November 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Bangladeshis now have to sort through fake news websites. Photo: AFP/Munir uz Zaman

Bangladesh, India, South Asia

Fake news websites spring up in Bangladesh before election

by Bertil Lintner November 21, 2018February 18, 2020

A Burmese vendor sells a large python skin at a traditional medicine shop at the sprawling grounds of Golden Rock pagoda in Mon State. Photo: AFP/Romeo Gacad

AT Finance, China, Myanmar, World

Myanmar’s wildlife gets a new champion

by Bertil Lintner November 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe. Both are key players in the Quad grouping. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, Australia, China, India, Japan, Maldives, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Singapore, South Asia, Sri Lanka

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meets in Singapore

by Bertil Lintner November 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Then presidential candidate Mohamed Solih addresses the media at his campaign headquarters in Male, the capital of the Maldives, in September. Photo: AFP

China, European Union, India, Maldives, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Modi heads to Maldives to firm up ties

by Bertil Lintner November 17, 2018February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees perform prayers as they attend a ceremony organized to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2018. Photo: AFP / Dibyangshu Sarkar

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Singapore, South Asia

Rohingya refugees flee camps to avoid repatriation

by Bertil Lintner November 13, 2018February 18, 2020

ULFA leader Paresh Baruah is alive and well, the insurgent group says. Photo: YouTube

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, South Asia

Assamese insurgent leader ‘safe and sound,’ group claims

by Bertil Lintner November 10, 2018February 18, 2020

The port facility at Hambantota on February 10, 2015. Sri Lanka's government is mulling the future of a string of white elephants. Photo: AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, India, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Concern grows in India over Sri Lankan constitutional crisis

by Bertil Lintner November 7, 2018February 18, 2020

A truck passing a sign on a road leading to a deep sea port project in Mayingyi, part of the Dawei Special Economic Zone in Myanmar. Photo: AFP/Soe Than Win

AT Finance, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand

Road linking Myanmar and Thailand to be upgraded

by Bertil Lintner November 5, 2018February 18, 2020

A site of landslide at a camp for Rohingya in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh, on August 15, 2018. The exodus from Myanmar is continuing despite efforts to repatriate some. Photo: AFP/The Yomiuri Shimbun

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Many questions remain over Rohingya repatriation

by Bertil Lintner November 5, 2018February 18, 2020

The Indian frigate Tarkash in an international exercise with the French navy on May 11, 2017. India has ordered more ships to boost its naval presence in the Indian Ocean. Photo: AFP/Fred Tanneau

AT Finance, China, India, Philippines, Russia, South Asia, Vietnam, World

New Indian navy ships to monitor China in Indian Ocean

by Bertil Lintner November 2, 2018February 18, 2020

印度總理莫迪（右）在新德里舉行的印度 - 東盟紀念峰會上與緬甸政府領袖昂山素姬握手。相片：Handout via AFP

AT Finance, India, Myanmar, South Asia

印度看待緬甸的獨特視角

by Bertil Lintner November 2, 2018February 18, 2020

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shaking hands with Myanmar's Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during the India-ASEAN commemorative summit in New Delhi. Photo: Handout via AFP

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Japan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Why India looks the other way on Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner October 31, 2018February 18, 2020

Changing of the Guard ceremony at National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine in Taipei, Taiwan. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, Taiwan

China will ‘take military action’ if Taiwan declares independence

by Bertil Lintner October 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Japan's Kaga helicopter carrier enters Osaka Port in Osaka on May 19, 2018. Japanese ships will soon be able to dock at Indian ports. Photo: AFP/The Yomiuri Shimbun

Australia, China, France, India, Israel, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, World

India, Japan joining forces to keep Indian Ocean calm

by Bertil Lintner October 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Construction projects in Sihanoukville mostly involve casinos and hotels for Chinese people. Photo: AFP/The Yomiuri Shimbun

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, Macau, Thailand, World

Cambodia’s Hun Sen says Chinese have not invaded

by Bertil Lintner October 25, 2018February 18, 2020

The railway station on the Mandalay-Lashio line in northern Myanmar. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, China, Myanmar

China and Myanmar railway talks back on track

by Bertil Lintner October 25, 2018February 18, 2020

日本首相安倍晉三（右）歡迎緬甸領導人昂山素姬抵達迎賓館赤坂離宮（Akasaka Palace），參加2018年10月9日在東京舉行的第10屆湄公 - 日本首腦會議。相片：AFP / Issei Kato

China, Japan, Northeast Asia

日本提供中國一帶一路的優質替代品

by Bertil Lintner October 22, 2018February 18, 2020

US and South Korean troops take part in joint military training exercises earlier this year. Photo: Seung-il Ryu / NurPhoto

AT Finance, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, World

US suspends third joint military exercise with South Korea

by Bertil Lintner October 21, 2018February 18, 2020

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister and acting president of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), speaks to reporters during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on May 14, 2018. Photo: AFP / Roslan Rahman

AT Finance, Malaysia

Malaysian political leader faces graft charges

by Bertil Lintner October 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Swedish defense contractor Saab is reportedly in pole position to secure a deal to sell its Gripen fighter aircraft to the Philippine Air Force. Photo: Oleg V Belyakov / AirTeamImages /
Wikimedia Commons

AT Finance, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, World

Philippine Air Force set to acquire Gripen fighters

by Bertil Lintner October 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is welcomed by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) upon arrival at the Akasaka Palace state guest house to attend the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo on October 9, 2018. Photo: AFP/Issei Kato

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Japan offers ‘quality’ alternative to China’s BRI

by Bertil Lintner October 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Police watch as Uighur Muslims leave the Id Kah Mosque after morning prayers in the old town of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Photo: AFP/Johannes Eisele

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar

China tightens its grip in Uighur-dominated region

by Bertil Lintner October 14, 2018February 18, 2020

US aircraft refuel during a friendship event at Iwakuni Air Base in Iwakuni City, Japan, on May 5, 2018. Photo: AFP/The Yomiuri Shimbun

Beijing, China, Russia, World

US seeks more tanker aircraft to counter China

by Bertil Lintner October 13, 2018February 18, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (right) meeting Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko (left), chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council, at the office building of the WPK Central Committee in Pyongyang on September 8, 2018. Photo: AFP/STR/KCNA Via KNS

China, Iran, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, World

Is the US the odd man out on the Korean Peninsula?

by Bertil Lintner October 12, 2018February 18, 2020

中國國家主席習近平（右）和北韓領袖金正恩（左）在大連市會面。相片：KCNA via AFP

China

中國對朝鮮半島態度不斷變化

by Bertil Lintner October 12, 2018February 18, 2020

China's President Xi Jinping (R) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) during a meeting in the Chinese city of Dalian. Photo by KCNA via AFP

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Malaysia, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, World

China’s shifting view on the Korean Peninsula

by Bertil Lintner October 10, 2018February 18, 2020

The flexible and fast S-400 missile system. Photo: Sergey Malgavko/Sputnik

Australia, China, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

US may permit India to buy Russian S-400 missile system

by Bertil Lintner October 5, 2018February 18, 2020

File pic of Mahabandoola Road in Yangon. A major high-rise project has been shut down by the military after contract breaches and public concern about the impact of buildings on a nearby reservoir. Photo: Ben Pipe/ Robert Harding via AFP

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar

Big high-rise project in Yangon shut down for ‘deal breaches’

by Bertil Lintner October 5, 2018February 18, 2020