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Peking’s “expansionism” has been the major justification for the United States’s containment policy. The sudden Chinese attack on Indian border forces in October, 1962, was denounced by India as unprovoked aggression, and it still contributes to the American image of a China that is, as Mr. Nixon sees it, “expansionist.” Now this pillar of the containment doctrine is carefully examined by Neville Maxwell, who breaks it up and throws it to the winds. His book is an object lesson in i...

Modern Nomads: Amazing Photo Series By Callie Eh Mongolia is a landlocked country located between China and Russia. It is a vast emptiness that links land and sky and is one of the last few places on the planet where nomadic life is still a living tradition. Mongolia may have various geopolitical, cultural, and geographical meanings. Mongolia consists of historic Outer Mongolia. The province of Inner Mongolia is geographically and politically separate and located in the northern part of China, ...

This time last year, Kathryn Thomas was just back from her honeymoon in the Caribbean with her husband Padraig McLoughlin. Actually, "we did the Celtic Tiger two honeymoons," she laughs. "We went away without Ellie [the couples two-year-old daughter] for a few days immediately after the wedding, and then later we took her with us to the Caribbean."

Kathryn Thomas in India for No Frontiers So assuming the vaccine is rolled out, and travel is green-lighted, what are her expectations around travel this year? "By August/ September, I would love to envisage myself and Padraig and Ellie getting on a flight. It will depend on where we are with numbers, of course. Were going to get this virus under control, thats for sure, and then its about everybody acting responsibly." Travel will be interesting this year, she continues. "Everyone will need r...

How Stalin Took Japan by Surprise in 1945 Reeling from two atomic bombs, the Japanese were physically and psychologically un-prepared for a massive invasion from communist Russia. Heres What You Need to Know: Stalin had his own agenda, and Soviet participation in the Far East was at the top of his list. At 11:02 am on August 9, 1945, an American warplane dropped an atomic device nicknamed “Fat Man” onto the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The bomb, generating the explosive power of 22,000 tons o...

As we stumble into 2021, bedraggled and half beaten, resolving to change our practices may prove trickier than ever before, courtesy of Covid.

As we stumble into 2021, bedraggled and half beaten, resolving to change our practices may prove trickier than ever before, courtesy of Covid.

As we stumble into 2021, bedraggled and half beaten, resolving to change our practices may prove trickier than ever before, courtesy of Covid.

Genghis Khan Retreat At the foothills of the Khangai Mountains in Outer Mongolia’s historic heartland, there is a unique wilder- ness camp with 18 white-domed gers set in a semi-circle like teeth biting into the juicy green of the Orkhon valley. The infinite horizon dwarfs even the giant granite boulders that stand like Antony Gormley sculptures in the landscape. Primordial, ancient and sacred, the camp is both otherworldly and extravagant. In the extensive library, cocooned in cashmere furn...