For our final group project my group decided to create a website about China. The website was done in a blog post or article style where we had the homepage with different posts about various topics relating to China. Different topics we included were: music and television, fashion, traditions, philosophies, food, and history. We thought …
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ICR Reflection
This semester I had the opportunity to participate in the ICR component for GHS 208. After having found interest in Chinese culture during the beginning of the semester I decided to volunteer for the Indianapolis Association of Chinese Americans (IACA). While the experience was short in time I gained a lot of knowledge and experience …
China Reportedly Bans Foreign Technology in Government and Public Offices
China is reported on the verge of banning the use of all foreign software and computers in government offices and public institutions. This could be a move which positions China to hurt US tech companies sales. Occurring at a critical moment in the ongoing US-China trade war. A report by the Financial Times indicated that …
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US Spent $6.4 Trillion on Wars in Middle East and Asia since 2001
According to a new report released by Brown University the US has spent over $6.4 trillion through fiscal year 2020 in budgetary costs related to and caused by the post 9/11 wars. This breaks down into an estimated $5.4 trillion in appropriations in current dollars and an additional minimum of $1 trillion for total US …
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The Chinese Blacklist that pays Companies $2500 an Hour to Avoid
The China Railway Construction Corp (CRCC) recently completed a coal carrying railroad line from inner Mongolia to the Jiangxi Province. For scale this railroad is about the same length as NYC to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL and cost about $28 billion. The CRCC and Chinese state media lauded the project as an exemplar …
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Iraq in Search for New Prime Minister
Iraq is in search for a new prime minister after Adel Abdul Mahdi’s resignation became official on December 1. Although it seems that nobody wants to fill his vacant position. Moqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc, stated that he does not want to nominate a candidate. The establishment figures which were mused …
China Offers to Waive Tariff Hikes on US Soybeans and Pork
China’s ministry of finance announced on December 6 that they were waiving tariffs on US soybeans and pork. The announcement was made in an effort to help tariff negotiations improve, giving a little bit of leverage to President Trump. Beijing had originally promised to lift the tariffs in September, although that lift did not come …
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Where Middle East Countries Get Their Names From
There is a common theory that almost every country gets its name from one of four things: a feature of the local landscape, the native people, an important person/leader, or a directional description of the country. While this holds true more or less on a global scale, it’s a different story in the Middle East. …
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Managing China is NATO’s Biggest Problem Yet
China has now emerged as the biggest challenge to ever face NATO. In the news this past week (although under reported) NATO, for the first time defined China as a strategic challenge. NATO allies have been trying to figure out whether Beijing is more of an economic opportunity than fundamental problem. A statement to come …
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US Considers Sending Thousands More Troops to Middle East
As I talked about in a previous article, Iran has been moving short range ballistic missiles into Iraq. This has created heightened sense of urgency within the US to mobilize more troops into the Middle East. Some estimates are up to 14,000 additional troops, albeit a more realistic number would be somewhere in the 4,000 …
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