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Brian Yeung: Hong Kong is not Kiev, nor Donetsk

... protester can afford an umbrella. I once compared the protests in Hong Kong to Kiev when I saw the images on media and I was still in Europe. When I came back from Hong Kong on 1st October, I felt an unusual atmosphere lingering in the air. It was China’s National Day. The news showed scholarism students protesting at the National Day ceremony while senior officials including chief executive CY Leung toasting the occasion. In the airport, there was announcement that some unexpected incidents ...

09.10.2014

Tetsuya Toyoda: Does China help Japanese Conservatives in the Upcoming Election?

... promise of the LDP's different from the DPJ's. This is not the first time that international politics plays into Japanese domestic politics. During the Cold War, the Soviet threat helped the LDP's long reign. Now with the rise of China we are entering the age of New Cold War. How does it play out in Japanese domestic politics? In 1955, the LDP was established, three years after the end of the US occupation. It united the conservative political groups to compete with the rise ...

19.05.2013

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