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April 27 , 2015
  • New York Times：Malaysia: ASEAN to Avoid Confronting China in S. China Sea
    The New York Times reports, "Malaysia's leader said Monday that Southeast Asian countries will avoid direct confrontation with China but push for a quick conclusion to a binding code of conduct to govern behavior in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Prime Minister Najib Razak said... 'We will continue to engage China in a constructive way...We hope to be able to influence China. It is also in their interest not to be seen as confronting ASEAN and that any attempt to destabilize this region will not benefit China either.'...He indirectly rejected calls by the Philippines for ASEAN to stand up to China. Manila has warned that Beijing is poised to take 'de facto control' with its construction of artificial islands on reefs claimed by other countries in the area."
  • Foreign Policy：U.S., China, India Race to Send Aid to Earthquake-Battered Nepal

    "The United States, China, and India are sending disaster response teams to earthquake-ravaged Nepal, highlighting the role that disaster diplomacy can play in foreign affairs as countries project soft-power influence and aim to win goodwill among their neighbors. Chinese search-and-rescue teams arrived in Nepal on Sunday, one day after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated the capital city of Kathmandu and killed more than 3,700 people across the Himalayan nation...Disaster response is especially important in Asia, where dense populations are coupled with oft-weak government capacities and vulnerability to quakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters. China, in particular, has spent the last decade trying to bolster its own disaster-response capabilities in order to burnish its image across Asia and the Pacific," reports Foreign Policy.

  • Quartz：China is building a Great Wall of Trees to fight climate change and the encroaching Gobi Desert
    "China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, but it is also engaged in a massive tree-planting program that has helped to offset tropical deforestation, and suck some of the climate-changing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Reforestation efforts in China, combined with regrowth on abandoned farmland in Russia, have helped offset 81% of the loss in above-ground biomass carbon lost to tropical deforestation since 2003, according to a new study in the academic journal Nature Climate Change," writes Quartz.
  • Wall Street Journal：U.S., Japan Announce New Security Agreement
    According to The Wall Street Journal, "The U.S. and Japan on Monday unveiled a new defense agreement aimed at overhauling the two countries' security arrangements and paving the way for a more robust participation of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in disaster relief, peacekeeping operations, missile defense and other military missions...The agreement-called the Joint Defense Guidelines-comes as the U.S., Japan and other American allies in Asia look for ways to address China's military modernization and its more aggressive territorial claims in the South and East China Seas. While U.S. officials insist the new agreement isn't about China, it is likely to be greeted skeptically by Beijing, which views with suspicion the Abe administration's military intentions."
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