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The Ainu people

Tokyo’s annual political charade

On September 14 an international conference was held in Sapporo, the administrative center of the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, with the support of the Japanese government. Its subject was the development of tourism to support the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples – in particular, the minority Ainu people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. These indigenous people, who typically have pronounced European-like facial features, have for centuries had to defend themselves against the aggressive Yamato minzoku…

Бахтиар Урусов

China’s new standard maps ruffle feathers

At the end of August, a seemingly trivial and commonplace incident was immediately met with suspicion by a number of countries in the Indo-Pacific region, which is literally awash with problems of all kinds. The incident in question was the publication by the PRC’s State Cartographic Service of a set of “standard maps,” which showed both its own and other countries’ borders. It should be noted at once that these maps do not add in any way to the list of territories already claimed by the PRC, and whose possession has been the subject of disputes between Beijing…

Vladimir Terehov

Has Kim Tok-hun fallen out of favor?

On August 21, 2023 the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un publicly reprimanded the Prime MinisterKim Tok-hun for his irresponsibility in failing to prevent the harm caused to the country’s agricultural land by the recent Typhoon Khanun. Kim’s comments came as he directed flood recovery work at the Ansok salt marshes in South Pyongan Province. The Great Leader’s personal visit was a response to an emergency: a dam burst, causing a large area of poorly drained land, including rice paddies, to be flooded with seawater…

Konstantin Asmolov

How to Resolve the Complex Conflict in Yemen

Viktor Mikhin

China’s Burgeoning Influence in the Middle East

Abbas Hashemite

Pakistan’s Shambolic Democracy

Taut Bataut

Ethiopia: a new narrative on the balance of power

Ivan Kopytsev

On the anniversary of the Japanese empire’s defeat

Konstantin Asmolov

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