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May 3, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Zambian Vice President Says “the South Africans Are Very Backward”

South Africa is much larger and more developed than its neighbors in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Economically, it dominates the entire region. Apartheid South Africa regularly …

Zambia President Michael Chilufya Sata (3rd L) touches the African Nations Cup trophy with founding President Kenneth Kaunda (2nd R), Vice President Guy Scott (R) as members of the Zambia soccer team (back) and former President Rupiah Band (L) look on, during a ceremony at the State House in Lusaka February 14, 2012
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 5, 2024

United States
Election 2024: China’s Efforts to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: China is following Russia’s lead in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

November 19, 2010

China
What China Says about the United States

Our media are filled with pieces about China—China’s currency, Chinese human rights, "China goes green", and on and on. Soon they will be even more clogged with predictive pieces about President Hu J…

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) reacts while reading a local English newspaper before conducting a Web chat with Chinese internet users at the U.S. embassy in Beijing February 22, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily
Blog Post by Elizabeth C. Economy Asia Unbound

November 21, 2017

United States
TWE Remembers: General Westmoreland Says the “End Begins to Come Into View” in Vietnam

Never overpromise and under deliver. General William Westmoreland should have followed that advice when he addressed the National Press Club fifty years ago today. Instead, the commanding general of …

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 20, 2018

Southeast Asia
What Maneuvering Around the 2019 Elections Says About Indonesian Democracy

The past two weeks, both major contenders for the 2019 Indonesian presidential election took steps in advance of the contest next April, which almost surely will pit incumbent President Joko Widodo o…

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Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound