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Tag: Western Sanctions

Posted inOpinion

Can the yuan be a key world reserve currency?

by Ken Moak March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

The yuan, or renminbi, China’s currency unit, has been touted as a contender to become a key world reserve currency on par with the greenback and surpassing the euro, yen and British pound. But is this feasible? Given that China is the biggest trading nation, with around 125 countries counting it as their biggest trade […]

Posted inOpinion

Ukraine war sending Russia-China ties in new directions

by John P Ruehl March 19, 2022March 19, 2022
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Terrible fate faces the Afghan people

by Vijay Prashad February 14, 2022February 14, 2022
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China to cushion Taliban from Western sanctions

by MK Bhadrakumar August 26, 2021August 30, 2021
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Photo: Sana / Handout via Reuters
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Failed economics: Syria ‘restructures’ its subsidy system

by Haid Haid June 1, 2021June 1, 2021
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Myanmar coup infused with geopolitical intrigue

by MK Bhadrakumar February 9, 2021February 12, 2021
US President Donald Trump shows the document reinstating sanctions against Iran. Photo:  AFP / Saul Loeb
Posted inOpinion

Economic sanctions are savage. Period

by Kourosh Ziabari December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Palestine, Qatar, Turkey

Mahathir touts worrying agenda at KL summit

by Albert Wilkins December 24, 2019February 18, 2020
Protestors against the China-backed Letpadaung copper mine unfurl a banner in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Facebook
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar

China seizes opportunity in Suu Kyi’s isolation

by Bertil Lintner December 5, 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
Posted inAT 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
The funeral procession for Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the Donetsk People's Republic. Photo: Valeriy Melnikov / Sputnik/ AFP
Posted inRussia, World

In breakaway Ukraine, those who live by the sword are dying by it

by Giovanni Pigni September 25, 2018February 18, 2020
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar Commander In-Chief (L) and National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) shake hands after their meeting in Naypyidaw in a file photo. Photo: AFP/ Phyo Hein Kyaw
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, India, Israel, Middle East, Myanmar, Russia, South Asia, World

Myanmar: where ‘genocide’ doesn’t really matter

by Bertil Lintner August 30, 2018February 18, 2020
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (C) casts his vote during the general elections as his wife Bun Rany (centre L) looks on in Phnom Penh on July 29, 2018. Photo: AFP/Manan Vatsyayana
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Cambodia, China, European Union, Japan, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, Singapore, World

Cambodia is now officially a one-party state

by David Hutt August 16, 2018February 18, 2020

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