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MELBOURNE (AFP) - Foreign ministers of the "Quad" - the United States, India, Australia and Japan - meet in Melbourne on Friday (Feb 11), cementing an alliance designed to counter China's forceful push across the Asia-Pacific region. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Unquestionably, ever more and more capable aerial Chinese refueling aircraft will strengthen Beijing’s reach beyond the first island chain.

Russia already has "hundreds" of mercenaries in Mali, but there was no sign they were using EU-trained Malian soldiers, an EU spokesperson has said.

“Sound China-US Relations Bring Great Benefits to Both Countries and Beyond” David Firestein: President and CEO, George H. W.

The Y-20's refueling capability is not nearly yet on par with that of the U.S. military, but Chinese engineers and pilots are leaning hard in that direction with a disturbing kind of urgency.

Kremlinology has always been a very difficult and inexact science. It is not easy to figure out the real aims, the real motivations, the real power balance, formerly in the Soviet Union, and now in Putin’s Russia. Moscow’s interest should be in fixing its economy and in having decent relations with the rest of the world, precisely for that purpose. But Putin is doing exactly the opposite. Does Russia need more territory? It already has more than it can control. Is Ukraine a threat for Russi...

Should PayPal be worried about your country’s central bank? Bloomberg April 7 | Updated on April 07, 2021 × Authorities in most countries may have no choice except to jump on the digital currencies bandwagon The world of money is about to leap into the great unknown of central bank digital currencies. Will it land in a utopia of universal financial inclusion or crash into a dystopia of instability? Perhaps the experiment will upend banking as we know it, or turn out to be one big damp squib,...

View: Central banks could issue digital currency, compete directly with PayPal SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 07, 2021, 07:49 AM IST Share Synopsis Technology is enabling monetary authorities to give ordinary people access to a kind of electronic cash they have never had before. Getty Images Central bank electronic cash is being viewed as a Cold War-type space race between superpowers, writes Andy Mukherjee. Related By Andy Mukherjee The world of money is about to leap into the great unknown of c...

"All great powers" want to rule the world, declared Robert Kagan, propagandist for America as imperial power, democratic hegemon, aggressive - Doug Bandow for Antiwar.com Original

Australia’s former top public servant says the government’s communication of policies that have upset China have further inflamed the deteriorating relationship.