Will China’s 4 peace principles for tackling African conflicts work?
Beijing has a formula for tackling African conflicts and hot-button issues, and during a meeting this month with Togolese leader Faure Gnassingbe, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined it in four principles linking peace to development. The principles entail focusing on African-led security free from outside intervention; upholding sovereignty and UN Charter principles; rejecting force and sanctions and favouring ceasefires through dialogue; and focusing on both immediate security concerns and...
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Fandom vs flag: why young Chinese embrace Japanese pop culture but reject war-era symbols
Young Chinese people enjoy Japanese pop culture such as anime and music, but many draw a firm line at symbols of Japanese militarism. That line was tested recently at Moscow State University, where Chinese students confronted a classmate wearing Japan’s rising sun flag in class and called for his repatriation, state-run newspaper Global Times reported on Sunday. Many countries, including China, view the flag as a symbol of Japanese militarism and aggression. Japan’s Self-Defence Forces still use...
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Big W has spent more than a decade in Kmart’s shadow. Can it pull off a comeback?
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Meghan Markle's father Thomas makes a stark confession: 'I paid for sex in Far East, but I'm no child abuser' - as Met admits it sat on abuse claims for SEVEN years
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Fury as Green Party activist given 'free rein by BBC' to lambast Jewish woman
Ashok Kumar, a professor at Birkbeck, had been invited to appear on Politics Live to discuss the controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion adopted at the Greens' conference this month.
