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Days before Taiwan marks the 30th anniversary of its first popular vote for the presidency next Monday, President Lai Ching-te said the March 23, 1996,
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian presided over a regular press conference on March 23. A journalist asked: some Japanese netizens said that the Japanese
Trump postpones strikes on Iran power plants
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Counter-terror police investigating ‘Iran-backed firebombing’
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How US Marines could help Trump reopen the Strait of Hormuz
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Neither absent nor central, Canada moves quietly in the Pacific islands
Canada is quietly strengthening its presence in the Pacific. In a region where relationships are more important than military or economic strength, Canada possesses the latitude to
Stop the World: military force not enough to overcome nuclear ambitions
The US–Israeli military campaign against Iran is unlikely to extinguish the sparks of the regime’s nuclear program, one of the world’s top arms control experts
It’s time for Australia to step off the gas
If it wants stable gas supply and lower gas prices, the federal government needs to be adaptive and flexible in reserving domestic gas production for
China unveils 5 principles on Iran war that ‘shouldn’t have happened’
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday laid out five principles for dealing with the crisis in the Middle East, which he described as “a
Taiwan says delayed US F-16s to start arriving this year
Deliveries of delayed F-16V fighter jets for Taiwan will begin this year with production at “full capacity”, the island’s defence ministry said after senior defence