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House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va. questions U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
Foreign Policy

House Democrat stands with Trump, warns China against driving US from Asia

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Lu Kang, the most senior spokesman of China's Foreign Affairs Ministry, speaks to reporters during a news briefing in Beijing.
Economy

China: ‘Immoral’ for Jim Mattis to protest ‘predatory economic behavior’

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media availability with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha at the State Department, Friday, May 11, 2018 in Washington.
Foreign Policy

Pompeo: US will ‘oppose’ China’s play for regional dominance

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A Chinese construction worker stands on the land that was reclaimed from the Indian Ocean for the Colombo Port City project, on the Galle Face sea promenade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. The Port City project was initiated as part of China's ambitious One Belt One Road initiative which envisages linking China's economic centers with energy-rich Persian Gulf along the ancient silk road. China invests US $ 1.4 billion in the project which involves the reclamation of land off the coast of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo for a 269 hectare (664 acre) artificial city that will include an international financial district, living and entertainment areas.
Beltway Confidential

China took over a port in Sri Lanka, so what?

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"I don't blame China," Trump said. "After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? I give China great credit."
Foreign Policy

‘Game of Loans’: How China uses ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ to extend its military reach

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The session was important for Sri Lanka's coalition government, led by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)
Op-Eds

Sri Lanka makes a mockery of the UN Human Rights Council

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The pretext for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch's prosecutorial intervention in international soccer is the use of the American financial system and occasional travel by its perpetrators. (AP Photo) 
Opinion

Dear Europe, you’re welcome. Again.

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China's President Xi Jinping, left, waves to the gathering as he walks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa upon arrival at the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
News

Sri Lanka backs China’s maritime ‘Silk Road’ plan

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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2013 file photo, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks during a media briefing on the final day of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa says he will not allow a U.N. panel investigating allegations of war crimes to visit Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa told foreign journalists on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 that he does not accept any investigation by the United Nations into allegations of abuses by his soldiers and the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels at the end of the country's civil war in 2009. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)
News

Sri Lanka won’t allow UN war crimes panel to visit

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If international agreements to curb greenhouse gas emissions resulted in keeping temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius -- as is the aim of climate talks scheduled for next year in Paris -- economic losses would hit just 2.5 percent per year by 2100. (iStock Photo)
Energy and Environment

Climate change could cut 9 percent from South Asian economies, study says

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