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Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking at a possible defeat in the coming election. Germany is to hold its federal election on Sunday, September 24. Merkel could end up zero, from hero, if she fails to secure her fourth term as chancellor. Former European Parliament President Martin Schulz is standing for the SDP in a bid […]
... written on Feb 12 2017Depending on what angle you view it from; President Donald Trump has made a brilliant tactical move, or committed a humiliating screw-up. When Trump made that unconventional move of taking a congratulatory phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and expressing doubts about the “One China” policy, Beijing was unbelievably furious. According to […]
... written on Feb 11 2017On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” which temporarily halts the entry of foreign nationals from 7 Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Six of them are Arab countries. Since then, Americans (or rather liberal […]
... written on Feb 10 2017Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, or simply “Ahok”, the first ethnic-Chinese governor of Jakarta, was thrown into hot soup last year when he explained to Indonesian voters that his opponents had used a verse from the Quran / Koran to deceive voters, after conservative Islamist opponents quoted the verse warning against Muslims voting for non-Muslims (kafirs). […]
... written on Feb 08 2017Hillary Clinton announced in her latest speech after weeks in hibernation that “The Future is Female”. Her hidden message could be to rally the American women to prepare for her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, as her successor. But would she accept another humiliating defeat if Ivanka Trump becomes the future U.S. first woman president instead of […]
... written on Feb 08 2017One of the reasons why China is awesomely strong has to do with its huge foreign exchange reserves. Armed with the world’s biggest forex reserves, no speculator, including the legendary George Soros, dares to attack the Chinese Yuan / Renminbi. It’s the same reason a jealous President Donald Trump wanted to slap a 45% tariff […]
... written on Feb 07 2017A Chinese family bought some firecrackers at a stall on sidewalk located along a row of shoplots in a Chinese-majority area. Firecrackers are banned in Malaysia and for some reasons the exotic toys were particularly hard to find this year. Their children happily took out some of the firecrackers out of the plastic bag as […]
... written on Feb 07 2017Opinion polls say she will win enough votes in the first round on April 23, but the numbers also show she will be defeated in the second round on May 7. But she couldn’t care less because the polls had said the same thing about the Britons and Americans last year – the UK would […]
... written on Feb 06 2017Last Friday, President Donald Trump banned 7 Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – from entering the U.S. for the next 90 days. These 7 countries have two common similarities. First, they are all majority Muslim nations. Second, they are all war infested countries with ISIS as the primary destabilizing […]
... written on Feb 03 2017Both leaders met in Turkey to tackle a series of sensitive issues. German Chancellor Angela Merkel lectured Turkish President Recep Erdogan about freedom of press. It was Merkel’s first visit to Turkey since a failed coup there last July, and comes as the country prepares to hold a critical referendum on boosting the powers of the […]
... written on Feb 03 2017
