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Jun 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | John Keiger |Piers Morgan |Monica Porter |Rana Mitter
French and international media cannot break their fixation with the “extreme right.” They continue to target the Rassemblement National (RN) as the ultimate menace for the July 7 legislative elections. But as of Friday, a more potent threat to French political and financial stability has raised its head: the radical left-wing “New Popular Front” (Nouveau Front populaire or NFP).
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Monica Porter |Rana Mitter |Nick Macpherson |Marc Oestreich
You can’t miss the vast banner emblazoned on the high-rise building overlooking central Vilnius. It reads: PUTIN, THE HAGUE IS WAITING FOR YOU. Not ones to mince their words, the Lithuanians. And neither are the Latvians or Estonians. In the face of an increasingly menacing Kremlin, the Baltic states — on NATO’s front line against Russian aggression — display an in-your-face bravado, which nevertheless overlays a palpable unease about the future.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Rana Mitter |Nick Macpherson |Marc Oestreich |LifeJeremy Clarke
“There is only one China in the world,” Wang Wenbin, the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, declared at a press conference late last month. “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory.” The previous day, on May 23, Beijing carried out major military exercises around the island under the title “Joint-Sword 2024A.” The Chinese Communist Party said it wanted to practice how to “seize power” in Taiwan, and to “punish” its new leader, Lai Ching-te, and his supporters in the US.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rana Mitter
‘There is only one China in the world,’ Wang Wenbin, the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, declared at a press conference late last month.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Rana Mitter
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
ft.com | Rana Mitter
“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for...
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Rana Mitter |Elisabeth Braw |Zack Beauchamp
Quotes of the Day: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." – Theodore Roosevelt "It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor." – Eric Hoffer...
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
ft.com | Rana Mitter
On January 14 1967, the American poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, those icons of the Beat generation, took part in a “Great Human...
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Rana Mitter
The Cold War, in its classic sense, did not start or end in East Asia in 1989. There was an uprising against the Communist Party in China in the spring of that year, but it was suppressed at the cost of many deaths as the army was sent in to crack down on protesters in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989. We now know that the inner circles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were dismayed not only by the events of that year, but also two years later in 1991, at the fall of the USSR.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
ias.edu | Rana Mitter
Hui Wang, Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, has been included in Prospect Magazine's annual list of Top Thinkers, a group of 25 people "whose work informs us about issues of critical global importance."Wang, whose position at IAS is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was praised by Prospect for his "monumental four-volume history of the rise of modern Chinese thought," which was partially published in English translation earlier this year.
