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Beijing ordered dramatic cuts in fuel, food and maintenance supplies to North Korea earlier this year
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Autocrats everywhere will have been inspired by Xi Jinping’s recent move to tear up the rulebook and set up a dictatorship.
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The lesson the North Koreans have learned is that bluster, brutality and blackmail make for a winning strategy.
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“Through the seething jungles of Mindanao, across the baking emptiness of Mongolia and into the Dear Leader’s personal pleasure dome.”
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Herr Schmidt was quite mistaken in his view that Japan is the Billy No Mates of Asia
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There’s more to Japan’s new first couple than meet the eye. The prime minister’s wife, Miyuki Hatoyama, claims to have befriended Tom Cruise in a previous life when he was, apparently, Japanese. Meanwhile the prime minister himself has been behaving like the re-incarnation of a French intellectual.