Search results for: Winston Set Aung
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China’s Presidential Election: The Role of the NPC
...chairman. With its mandate set to expire, the 12th NPC held its last plenary session in March of 2017, and is in the process of handing over the reins to...
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Ticking Clocks: Erdoğan and Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum
...Western conspiracy and portrayed the protestors themselves as a treacherous fifth column. The result was to set Turkish society at war with itself and trigger the first of the now...
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China’s March West: Pitfalls and Challenges in Greater Central Asia
...Belt and Road Initiative (previously known as One Belt, One Road) launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013 is set to further deepen China’s relations with GCA. Central Asia occupies...
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Kazakhstan 2041: the Next Twenty-Five Years
...“brand Kazakhstan” on the international arena. Looking to the next twenty-five years and beyond, Kazakh authorities have set forth an ambitious vision for turning the country into one of the...
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Myanmar’s Evolving Relations: The NLD in Government
...of power, the first five months in office of the NLD government were an opportunity for Myanmar’s democratically elected administration to reinforce its legitimacy and set a foundation for long-term...
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Is Turkey Becoming a Banana Republic?
...warring factions and sects are fighting for power, not unlike the dogfight under a carpet to which Winston Churchill allegedly likened Russian politics. Turkish politics in the past five years...
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Understanding China’s Position on the South China Sea Disputes
...was circulated by China as a set of notes verbale to the United Nations in 2009 (see appendix, map 1).[4] Although the exact number and distribution of dashes has varied,...
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Environmental Challenges and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
...is need to: establish binding conventions and regimes that set reduction targets, especially in tackling transboundary air and marine pollution; expand cooperation in emerging areas such as greenhouse gas reduction...
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If the opposition beats Erdogan, Sweden’s NATO problem is over.
...late and the authorities paved the way for the devastation to be so extensive by allowing developers to set aside safety standards. If Kilicdaroglu is elected, Sweden’s NATO worries should...
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Taiwan: Tokyo’s New Ally?
...on the wall for some time, 2021 with the US-Japan joint statement in April and the defence white paper in July truly set in motion Japan’s intent to include the...