China
What Could Taiwan’s Application to Join the CPTPP Mean?
Once again we have an excuse to use the phrase “the NEO did not have time...”. This time in connection with the official appeal to the regional association Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP, which was made on September 17 this year by the leadership of the PRC. Just one week later...
China is Joining the CPTTP: What this Means for the Situation in the Indo-Pacific Region
On 17th September 2021, Xinhua News Agency of the People’s Republic of China reported that on the previous day the country’s Minister of Commerce, Wang Wentao, had sent a formal request to join the regional alliance of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement...
De-Listed Anti-China Terror Group “Rises from the Dead”
Suspicions were raised when in late 2020 the US de-listed as a terrorist organization the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM, sometimes referred to as the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP. This was because the US had claimed as its rationale that the ETIM/TIP had not been active for over a decade despite the US itself admitting to striking ETIM/TIP...
