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Full text: China’s Policies on Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation

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Source: Xinhua | 2017-01-11 16:29:58 | Editor: Lu Hui

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — China’s State Council Information Office on Wednesday issued a white paper on China’s policies on Asia-Pacific security cooperation.

Following is the full text:

China’s Policies on Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation

The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China January 2017

First Edition 2017

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White House warns China on trade, South China Sea

ChannelNewsAsia Posted 24 Jan 2017 04:49

A Chinese navy formation, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning (C), during military drills in the South China Sea on Jan 2, 2017. (AFP Photo)

WASHINGTON: The White House warned China on Monday (Jan 23) that the United States will defend “international interests” in the South China Sea and that trade must be a “two-way street.”

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China’s top judge calls judicial independence an ‘erroneous Western ideal’

JAPAN TIMES -AP, Jan 18, 2017

China’s top judge has drawn criticism from legal professionals after he dismissed the concept of judicial independence as an “erroneous Western ideal,” a statement seemingly aimed at emphasizing the ruling Communist Party’s ultimate control over all areas of public life.

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Trồng người – Số 40

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Số 40 – February 2016

 

AND HUMANS CREATE GODS

COMMENTARY
December 8, 2006
© Vu-Duc Vuong

In this season of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, who counts upward of two billion followers around the world today, it may be sobering to look at religions from a more humanist perspective: it is humans who create gods out of the necessity to believe in something higher, more lasting and more powerful than their short lifespan.

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In Bhutan, Happiness Index as Gauge for Social Ills

ASIA PACIFIC – JAN. 17, 2017

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Dasho Karma Ura, shown in Thimphu in September, has for more than two decades developed and fine-tuned Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness indicator. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times

THIMPHU, Bhutan — As a downpour settled into a thick fog outside, Dasho Karma Ura let his eyes flicker at the ceiling of a wood-paneled conference room and began expounding on the nature of happiness.

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Caution as Vietnam inches closer to pivotal gambling decision

caution-as-vietnam-inches-closer-to-pivotal-gambling-decision“Development” underway in Phu Quoc’s northwest. Photo by VnExpress/Calvin Godfrey

By Dien Luong   December 26, 2016 | 02:00 am GMT+7

Critics warn the casinos could prove a risky gambit.

e.vnexpress.net_Phu Quoc Island’s long pursuit of a casino may finally pay off.

Since at least 2007, shifting rumors about the casino’s location and investors cast a pall of uncertainty over whether and where the Mekong Delta’s most popular tourist destination would have a casino.

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Bomb database useful for past, present wars

Boston Globe – JULY 30, 2012

Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson’s project is aiding efforts to spot unexploded bombs that still endanger civilians.

Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson’s project is aiding efforts to spot unexploded bombs that still endanger civilians. MEG MCKINNEY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

By Bryan Bender GLOBE STAFF

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson, 45, a bespectacled Minnesota native with an outsized gee-whiz quality even by military standards, began a rather unusual hobby: documenting a century of US air power — bomb by bomb.

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