After nearly eight years of relative tranquility in the Taiwan Strait, voters on January 16th elected the country’s first female president, giving the pro-Taiwan DPP control of parliament for the first time ever.
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Visaka Dharmadasa, Founder and Chair of the Association of War Affected Women, speaks about Sri Lanka’s political transition and the role of women in building peace in the country.
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The poll is also important in furthering the process of national reconciliation between the government and the many armed groups in the country. Though some of these groups signed a ceasefire agreement with the government of President Thein Sein in October, the majority wanted to wait and see how the next government would handle the peace process.
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The new Taliban front in the north is a disaster for the “national unity government” in Kabul, which reached its first year anniversary the week that Kunduz fell.
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The most significant outcome of the summit is the emergence of unity among armed groups on the general principle that a nationwide ceasefire cannot happen if some groups are left out to defend themselves.
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Abe has already forced a number of security bills through the lower house of the Diet, which has so far caused considerable anger in China, where state-run media called it a “nightmare scenario.”
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Former US State Department China official Thomas J. Christensen outlines a vision of cooperation and mutual growth for Beijing and Washington.
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In the ever-escalating compendium of cyber incidents and intrusions, an enormous US government breach–perhaps the largest ever–came to light earlier this month with news of a federal hack affecting “nearly every government agency.”This incident, which exploited a zero-day vulnerability (a previously unknown flaw in software), exposed and put at risk the personal information of four million […]
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The first task for Sirisina’s new administration has been to provide political stability, given that his government does not have a majority in parliament.
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The EU was criticized for the considerable time it took to find the collective will and resources to respond to its refugee crisis, with thousands perishing in the Mediterranean in the interim. ASEAN now faces a similar test of its credibility as a regional organization.
