One of Indonesia’s richest men says he is considering throwing his hat into the ring for the next presidential election. He believes his business sense and strategic friendships could do great things for the country’s biggest problems.
Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee for America’s next foreign policy chief, launched his bid for the job with explosive statements on the South China Sea that call for a block on China’s access to the disputed waters and islands.
Senior American lawmakers are calling for the withdrawal of large aid packages to the Philipines in the wake of Duterte’s increasingly provocative and bloodthirsty statements on the drugs war. But as the days of the Obama administration tick away, the Filipino president is happy to bluff and wait for fairer winds.
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailThe waters of the China-Singapore relationship have been muddied by a recent spat, but there is no reason to think that the nation’s decades-long balancing…
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Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailDonald Trump talked a lot about China on the campaign trail, making relations between the two likely to be a big issue as the President-elect’s…
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailThe American President-elect says he is ditching his country’s commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in favour of bilateral deals with individual nations. This is…
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Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Claire Heffron Initially, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was viewed in China as an entertaining reality television programme. He was ridiculed. His surname sounds like “Breaking…