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China Orders Troops and Tanks to North Korean Border China is reportedly beefing up its military presence on the North Korean border amid heightening tensions in the region. The troop mobilisation is said to be taking place along with deployment of dozens of tanks in the strategically important border region with North Korea, which is separated by the Yalu River. The Chinese military is on high alert over the ongoing tensions in the [...] from FT: There is a caricature of America’s “pivot” to Asia and it goes something like this: the Middle East and south Asia are the graveyard of US power and prestige and Washington must cut its losses to these ungrateful nations as quickly as possible and turn its full attention to the21st century that is playing out on more peaceful and profitable shores in the Asia-Pacific region. This concept of the [...] According to new numbers, youth unemployment rates across Europe just hit new highs. Unfortunately, the young and unemployed are not likely to see their situation improve anytime soon. According to a report by the International Labour Organization, the global youth unemployment rate will continue to edge higher beyond 2014, and will hit 12.9% by 2017, 0.2 percentage points up from 2012. From the ILO: “As the euro area crisis continues in its second year, the impacts are spreading [...]  Polar Vortex Collapse, Arctic Freeze Imminent A “renminbi bloc” has been formed in East Asia, as nations in the region abandon the US dollarand peg their currency to the Chinese yuan — a major signal of China’s successful bid tointernationalize its currency, a research report has said. The Peterson Institute for International Economics, or PIIE, said in its latest research that Chinahas moved closer to its long-term goal for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency. Since [...] About 140 million people, mainly in developing countries, are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water, researchers believe. Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) annual meeting in London, scientists said this will lead to higher rates of cancer in the future. South and East Asia account for more than half of the known cases globally. Eating large amounts of rice grown in affected areas could also be a health risk, scientists [...] A “renminbi bloc” has been formed in East Asia, as nations in the region abandon the US dollarand peg their currency to the Chinese yuan — a major signal of China’s successful bid tointernationalize its currency, a research report has said. The Peterson Institute for International Economics, or PIIE, said in its latest research that Chinahas moved closer to its long-term goal for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency. Since [...]
CONGRATULATIONS: Your Family Owes $10,700 To China! (CNSNews.com) – The debt that the U.S. government owes to foreign interests now equals approximately $47,495 for each household in the United States, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Treasury and the Census Bureau. The portion of the U.S. government’s foreign debt now owed to interests in Mainland China is about $10,090 per household. At the end of August, the latest period reported [...] Police in India’s north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh are looking for a gang of poachers who entered a high-security zoo in the capital, Itanagar, and hacked a tiger to death. Officials have ordered an investigation into the incident, which happened on Monday night. The arrival of security guards prevented the poachers from carrying away the mutilated animal. The poaching and smuggling of tiger body parts is common across India. The animals are prized [...] http://imgur.com/a/Y7oIp Tiny article on CNN…BBC and Al Jazeera have the details if you want it: The US defence secretary has warned territorial disputes in East Asia have the potential to become wider conflicts if provocations are not reduced. “A misjudgement on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict,” Leon Panetta said at the start of an Asian tour. His comments came as anti-Japanese protests continue to [...] Source: Post Gazette China is moving ahead with the development of a new and more capable generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles, increasing its existing ability to deliver nuclear warheads to the United States and to overwhelm missile defense systems, military analysts said this week. Overall, China’s steady strengthening of its military capabilities for conventional and nuclear warfare has long caused concern in Congress and among American allies in East Asia, [...] BEIJING—China’s corn output is forecast to fall below earlier expectations due to a pest infestation—another spur for global prices already soaring over drought in major producer countries. Some analysts now forecast up to four million metric tons of China’s coming corn harvest, the equivalent of about 2% of last year’s production, could be lost to pests. Market-supply problems caused by drought or below-normal rainfall in major producer nations like the U.S., [...] via HUFFPOST: BEIJING — Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will appear in the journal Science on Friday, add to recent efforts that have dated pottery piles in east Asia to more than 15,000 years ago, refuting conventional theories that the invention of pottery correlates to the period [...] EU leaders want Greece to remain in the eurozone but to “respect its commitments”, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said. He was speaking after a Brussels summit which exposed differences between France and Germany over measures to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. The EU is struggling to revive growth. The risk of a Greek exit from the euro loomed large, ahead of another Greek election on 17 June. Contingency plans [...] The Chinese government is increasingly lauching cyber attacks against the United States Defense Department (DOD) for intelligence purposes, according to a new government report on the Chinese military. “I think we have concerns about a number of computer network operations and activities that appear to originate from China that affect DOD networks,” David Helvey, acting assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia told reporters today. “China’s persistent cyber intrusions indicates the likelihood that [...] |
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