Afghanistan’s presidential election will take place next year on April 20 with results due by June, the electoral authority in the conflict-ridden country announced. The 12-day registration of presidential hopefuls will start next week, Gulajan Abdulbadi Sayad, head of the Independent Election Commission, told a news conference in the capital Kabul on Monday. “All necessary […]
Import Prices: Still No Signs of Tariffs Taxing Consumers…
The price of goods imported from China fell in the first month of the Trump administration’s expanded tariffs, government data showed Thursday. The Trump administration imposed tariffs on around $200 billion of goods imported from China at the end of September. Previously, the China tariffs had applied to $50 billion of goods, mostly technological imports. […]
Visualizing China’s Belt and Road Investment Map…
The fifth anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was recently marked in Beijing. This 900 billion U.S. dollar transcontinental development project was launched in the autumn of 2013 when president Xi Jinping proposed the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road – the two main segments […]
Rising Tensions with China: Jim Mattis Cancels Visit and U.S. Warship Has ‘Unsafe’ Encounter at Sea…
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has canceled a planned visit to China this month, a sign of the rising tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea. The word from the Pentagon comes one day after a U.S. warship had an “unsafe” encounter with a Chinese destroyer […]
Asia Day #10 Schedule – President Trump 31st ASEAN Summit…
Dennis Rodman Offers to ‘Straighten Things Out’ Between Trump & N. Korea’s Kim…
Trump: Kim Jong Un ‘Will Regret It Fast’ If He Attacks Guam, U.S. Allies…
President Trump said Friday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will “regret it fast” if he threatens or attacks any U.S. territory or ally, while acknowledging his team is considering military options “very carefully.” “If he does anything with respect to Guam or any place else that’s an American territory or an American ally, […]
Resolving North Korea Without “Fire and Fury” by Scott Ritter…
Communist Party: China Will Remain Neutral If N. Korea Strikes First. Not So If U.S. Does…
Lavrov: “The one who is stronger and wiser should be the first to step back from the brink”…
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