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In the coming weeks, an
international tribunal is expected to decide a case brought by the
Philippines against China over contested claims in the South China
Sea. In an interview with Asia
Blog, BBC journalist and author Bill Hayton
discusses why China maintains such broad maritime claims in the
region, and why it rejects international arbitration. “I think people
often think of this as a rational fight over resources,” he says.
“But I think one has to insert the whole Chinese view of history in
there.”
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
agreement involving 12 countries has met resistance across the
political spectrum in the United States, but the head of the world's
largest mining company issued a full-throated defense of free trade
on Monday at Asia Society in New York. "Most politicians, when
you find yourself thinking about more weighty matters of the world,
will rediscover the beauties of free trade,” said BHP Billiton CEO Andrew Mackenzie.
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In an interview with Asia Blog,
senior editor at The
Atlantic Alex
Wagner says that newsrooms are just doing “an OK job”
at achieving diversity of staff and coverage. She’d also like to see
certain hot topics covered with more depth. “I think we — speaking
generally as the media — do a lot of high-intensity coverage about
2016 electoral politics, but we don’t look at the seismic shifts
happening underneath that inform the very politics we’re covering,”
she says.
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