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Even Though the King of all Tallo himself was Karaeng Mattoaya using the name Sultan Abdullah, the marriage of the two kingdoms battled with the spread of Islam from South Sulawesi. Initially, attempts to propagate Islam from Java into Makassar didn't deliver much success. Similarly, tultan Baabullah of Ternate’s attempts affirmed the principles of Gowa-Tallo
U.S. Media Companies Are Inextricably Linked to China. Are Their Assets Anchors — or Hostages? Variety 3 hrs ago China is set to host the winter Olympics in February, but the extent of American involvement is on shaky ground. There’s plenty of precedent for Olympic-scale strife — in 1980 and 1984, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. engaged in respective boycotts of each other’s Olympics — but this Cold War is raising complicated questions for a new age. With China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, contentious territorial claims in the South China Sea and global trade imbalance...