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Islamabad [Pakistan], August 27 (ANI): Pakistan, nominally a US partner in the war against terrorism, sees the Taliban's victory as its own in Afghanistan.

Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?

Reviewed in This Article “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” is at the Guggenheim Museum through January 7, 2018. The accompanying book, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, edited by Alexandra Munroe with Philip Tinari and Hou Hanru, is published by the Guggenheim. On the evening of May 20, 1989, in response to weeks of mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government placed Beijing under martial law. The following morning, in Hong Kong, far to the s...

From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping A former Beijing bureau chief shares insights from her time in China. Souvenir plates featuring the current Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, and late Communist leader Mao Zedong in Beijing.Credit...Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images , who grew up in Australia and covered China for The New York Times from 2012 to 2019. Her first visit to the country was in 1966 as a university student, and she described her experience spanning the decades in an essay for a ...

20.04.2021 - BERLIN/TEHRAN/BEIJING - GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.com This post is also available in: German With oil purchases and agreements of cooperation, China ensures long-term influence in Iran. Berlin and Brussels lose out due to US sanctions. Berlin and the EU could permanently lose out on political influence and substantial business deals in Iran, due to new agreements between Iran and China,...

The Women Who Changed War Reporting George Packer In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents—born into immense privilege, a daughter of the high-WASP ascendancy. Her father, Desmond FitzGerald, was a top CIA official; her mother, Marietta Tree, a socialite and liberal activist. FitzGerald was raised with servants and horses, an...