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I first visited Kolkata, better known as Calcutta, in 1982 as a backpacking law student. I stayed at a hostel in the Howrah slums and regretted that my camera could record only images, not the equally memorable stench. In my visits over the next 25 years, Kolkata — and much of India — seemed...

Because... both the Japanese and Russian navies outclass you guys by... 20 years? Because.... The Russians decided to arrange their territory so you don't border the SoJ?

The Obama administration said Friday afternoon that China was not manipulating the value of its currency, choosing once again to avoid any escalation in the long-running trade dispute between the two countries. The Treasury Department said the renminbi was “substantially undervalued”...

I know you are reading this Gambit.

Isabel Hilton urges British businesses to be more cautious in their dealings with Chinese corporations (Chinese shadows, 22 May). She correctly states that Britain has "one of the world's most open economies" – a key reason for its success in attracting foreign direct investment, and the jobs...

Outside the closed gates of the Xilingol Mongolian high school, Chinese police watched warily as hundreds of students performed calisthenic exercises in a yard they had left the previous day to march through the streets. A short drive along the city's boulevards, another police unit was...

I don't think a fund which spends at the curtesy of its stakeholders can bail out any of the top 20 economies in the world.

Who would save Japan in a sovereign debt crisis? Ideally, it won’t have one. But given the country’s terrifying challenges, some senior Japanese financial executives and government bureaucrats are quietly considering a doomsday situation. In a theoretical credit collapse, even China could come...

WTF? You can't just train 2k experts... Oh wait, we're talking about the communist party here. I expect these experts to be of higher quality than your exploding watermelons.

I recall a friend telling me that Buddhism was widely adopted by the Tang dynasty as a tool for repression. The concept of reincarnating into a better life if one swallowed his grievances of the current one was ideal for imperial regimes where wealth gap often caused uprisings. Centuries later...

Water shortage is a direct result of overpopulation. Mao was single handly responsible for creating 400 million Chinese lives out of thin air.

As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells. Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online...

Is India god anywhere outside India? The Chinese are god in numerous countries of the developing world, including all of your neighbors, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar. They're competing with you in Bangledesh. Don't lose; be godly! PS: I just discovered that China is...

Lol, we provided you with your first nuclear reactors and is now supplying you with the much needed Uranium after Australia banned you. Show a little gratitude? Send a man to the moon and we still import Indian girls and use them as prostitutes. I read you guys have an even more severe gender...

Asia's biggest river – is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years, forcing an unprecedented release of water from the Three Gorges reservoir. The drought is damaging crops, threatening wildlife and raising doubts about the viability of China's massive water diversion ambitions. Between now...

The affairs of Afghanistan and Pakistan are becoming the biggest test of whether the United States and China can cooperate to maintain global peace and stability in the 21st century. They are an even bigger test of this than the Korean Peninsula, for the security equation there is largely...

Nice comback. You should've been there when I trolled them on their exploding rockets. I made them cry hard about SLV-3.

Why not just neglect them like you have for... ever since the Manchus conquered them? It must be a coincidence that state construction companies came to build on the land recently evacuated of residents.

That is not the issue. Of course the government branch responsible for public corporations can mandate prices. For ICBC the BCUC decides the rate for basic auto insurance, but unlike your homeland, other branches of the provincial or national governments cannot intervene. If you had read the...

Don't concern yourself with him. He's probably a middle school patriot who learned crappy English at an international school. But then again, it's not very patriotic to learn a foreign language.