“The development marks the first time since the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 that it has sought to outlaw a political organisation.”
“The major culprits in Malaysia’s epic 1MDB financial scandal may already have destroyed much of the evidence against them but newly minted Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng is confident a global money trail will reveal the truth.”
“While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/26/why-no-outrage-over-u-s-killing-of-children/
“At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-trade-deals-are-a-futile-conceit/
“If the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it ‘denuclearizes,’ why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/20/cuba-denuclearized-in-1962-why-continue-the-embargo/
“The two Democrats want their amendment added to the Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets military policy for the next fiscal year.”
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senators-move-block-trump-removing-us-troops-south/story?id=55866351
“So, where are we? We are back to where we were before Trump initiated his series of angry outbursts, insults, and threats against North Korea. North Korea still has its nuclear weapons and is promising to get rid of them sometime into the future.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/15/the-big-obstacle-to-peace-in-korea/
“Unfortunately, a very strong faction in Washington doesn’t support any peace agreement and instead seeks to overthrow the DPRK government.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/Reese_Erlich/2018/06/12/a-deal-with-north-korea-dont-blow-it-this-time/
“Despite condemnations from China, the US continues to sell advanced weapons to the island under the Taiwan Relations Act for its self-defense against a much bigger Chinese military.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/asia/us-taiwan-de-facto-embassy-china-intl/index.html
“The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing.”