http://www.fpif.org/regions/asiapacific FPIF Regions: Asia & Pacific Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:22 -0500 en-us 38.906778-77.041481 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/1gLbEzHNb5I/is_china_reentering_the_great_game http://www.fpif.org/articles/is_china_reentering_the_great_game Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:46:55 -0500 China's economic involvement has increased in Afghanistan. Will it be a stabilizing force as the United States withdraws?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/1gLbEzHNb5I" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/is_china_reentering_the_great_game http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/eqozsFgGWs0/congressional_briefing_okinawa_marine_bases_and_us_military_spending http://www.fpif.org/pressroom/congressional_briefing_okinawa_marine_bases_and_us_military_spending Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:08:22 -0500 Can we close the Futenma U.S. Marine Base in Japan Without Constructing Additional Marine Bases in Okinawa?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/eqozsFgGWs0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/pressroom/congressional_briefing_okinawa_marine_bases_and_us_military_spending http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/iOa4iL35pw4/apples_ieconomy_a_veritable_labor_dystopia http://www.fpif.org/blog/apples_ieconomy_a_veritable_labor_dystopia Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Mike Daisey's appearance on "This American Life" has made it impossible to ignore Apple's labor abuses.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/iOa4iL35pw4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/apples_ieconomy_a_veritable_labor_dystopia http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/ceN2mV4UnXg/burma_dont_believe_the_hype http://www.fpif.org/blog/burma_dont_believe_the_hype Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:09:44 -0500 Burma's President Thein Sein seems to think a veneer of democracy is enough to get sanctions lifted.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/ceN2mV4UnXg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/burma_dont_believe_the_hype http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/BGrn4ue5Ahc/the_apple_connection http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_apple_connection Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:41:00 -0500 Apple's march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/BGrn4ue5Ahc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_apple_connection http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/mN1MID7IdJ4/new_york_times_continues_to_conceal_us_role_in_1965_indonesia_coup http://www.fpif.org/blog/new_york_times_continues_to_conceal_us_role_in_1965_indonesia_coup Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Why is the New York Times still concealing the role that the United States played in the 1965 Indonesia coup?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/mN1MID7IdJ4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/new_york_times_continues_to_conceal_us_role_in_1965_indonesia_coup http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/6ZMvXmkAJ7Y/approaching_north_korea_in_the_kim_jong_un_era http://www.fpif.org/articles/approaching_north_korea_in_the_kim_jong_un_era Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:15:00 -0500 Every time a new administration takes office in Washington, it behaves like an amnesiac toward North Korea.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/6ZMvXmkAJ7Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/approaching_north_korea_in_the_kim_jong_un_era http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/OicFE0bEW-c/once-great_journalist_shawcross_now_receives_john_yoo_seal_of_approval http://www.fpif.org/blog/once-great_journalist_shawcross_now_receives_john_yoo_seal_of_approval Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:00 -0500 William Shawcross was on board with the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/OicFE0bEW-c" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/once-great_journalist_shawcross_now_receives_john_yoo_seal_of_approval http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/PGYxMnH52uQ/ron_pauls_anti-war_stance_is_to_progressives_as_atheism_is_to http://www.fpif.org/blog/ron_pauls_anti-war_stance_is_to_progressives_as_atheism_is_to Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:00:00 -0500 A personal post on the similarities with which a progressive experiences libertarianism and atheism.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/PGYxMnH52uQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/ron_pauls_anti-war_stance_is_to_progressives_as_atheism_is_to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~3/AGsVjUGx5Dc/a_korean_spring http://www.fpif.org/articles/a_korean_spring Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:14:04 -0500 All eyes are on North Korea after Kim Jong Il's death. But the real changes are taking place in the South.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/AsiaPacific/~4/AGsVjUGx5Dc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/a_korean_spring