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East Asia
India and Pakistan Could Join SCO In 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the possibility that India and Pakistan could join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2017. Speaking at the SCO summit in Tashkent on June 24, Putin said New Delhi and Islamabad “must meet all the obligations to receive the status of member states, RFERL…
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East Asia
China expects closer cooperation with India under SCO framework
(Xinhua) — China is looking forward to enhancing cooperation with its neighbor India under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on June 23. Xi made the remarks while meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of this year’s SCO summit scheduled…
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East Asia
China and Iran to build oil export terminal in Persian Gulf
China and Iran agreed to jointly build an oil terminal in the Persian Gulf. The planned oil terminal will be built on Qeshm Island in the southern part of the Persian Gulf. It is expected to turn it into an important hub for oil production and storage. The $550-million contract…
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South Asia
Kazakhstan’s trade with CAREC countries reaches $22 billion
The volume of trade turnover between Kazakhstan and the countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) increased from 17.5 to 22 billion dollars from 2010 to 2015, Vice-Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Timur Zhaksylykov has said today during I Forum of the analytical centers of Central Asia.…
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East Asia
SCO expected to embrace new members in upcoming Tashkent summit
By Zhao Cheng from People’s Daily The heads of state from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries are expected to take India and Pakistan to the next stage in a process of attaining full membership at the Tashkent summit to be held in late June. If so, the SCO will…
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East Asia
The New York Times is wrong about the South China Sea
In an recent article wrote for China-US Focus.com titled “The New York Times is Wrong about the South China Sea”, U.S. Writer and Foreign Policy Analyst Ben Reynolds pointed out that one editorial of the New York Times “echoes a number of mistaken arguments that are popular with American policymakers”,…
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East Asia
India to join Shanghai Cooperation Organisation within a year
India is to attain full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) within a year, Secretary General of the six-member political, economic and military alliance led by China and Russia has said, The Indian Express reports. “For almost a year, we held consultations with top representatives from India. To become…
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South East Asia
Putin: Russia, India have great room for expanding economic cooperation
Russia and India need to step up economic cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, emphasizing that the current trade turnover between the two countries has not reached its potential maximum, Trend reports. “As for our [India-Russia] relations, they have very deep roots, and we highly value this. We have very…
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South Asia
Remittances from Central Asian labor migrants sharply decrease
According to the Central Bank of Russia, in the first quarter of 2016 money remittances from Russia to CIS countries amounted to $914 million, which is almost twice as less than in the first quarter 2015 ($1.781 billion) and 3.7-fold less than in the same period in the pre-crisis year…
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East Asia
China ready to work in a constructive manner with U.S.
BEIJING, June 9 (People’s Daily, Chen Shangwen) While reassuring the world Monroe Doctrine is out-of-date in the 21st century, China’s Ambassador to the U.S. launched an appeal for a peaceful South China Sea. In an article wrote for Bloomberg Review titled ” How to Bridge the Divide Over the South…
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