Published : Sunday January 13, 2013 | Category : Special Report | Hits:338
By : STRATFOR

The Beijing skyline as seen on January 12. AFP PHOTO [Manila Times Editor’s note: This STRATFOR FORECAST covers the whole world. Space constraints allow is only to publish today the East Asia and South Asia portions. We will publ... Read more
Published : Sunday January 13, 2013 | Category : Special Report | Hits:294
Three things will shape events in East Asia in 2013: Beijing’s struggle to maintain social and political stability amid lower economic growth rates; China’s accelerating military modernization and Read more
Published : Sunday January 13, 2013 | Category : Special Report | Hits:275

India is an agricultural, industrial and military power that nuclear-arm power. Here, nn Indian man dies rice at a rice field on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on January 7, 2013. India commands over two per cent of the Earth’s land area and ab... Read more
Published : Sunday January 13, 2013 | Category : Special Report | Hits:116
By : Robert D. Kaplan and Rodger Baker
Besides all the worries that Chinese leaders have about their economy, as well as the worries they have about the stability of the Communist Party at a time of rapid change, there is China’s geographical periphery for them to be concerned about. This... Read more
Published : Sunday January 06, 2013 | Category : Special Report | Hits:945

Honor guard marches during a flagraising ceremony to mark Myanmar’s 65th Independence Day at the People’s Square near Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon January 4, 2013. AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU The United States has been attempting... Read more