Doug Pologe

@DougPologe

Following rivalries between the world's great powers, with a focus on China and Japan.

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  1. Relations between those two countries are of interest because Bangladesh could provide China access to naval facilities on the Bay of Bengal

  2. China will provide Bangladesh $50 million for construction of the 8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge.

  3. Vietnam's new prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc: A "competent technocrat" who will stick to the party line.

  4. Possibly related to this: 'Vietnam swore in a new prime minister on Thursday and a new president last week.'

  5. Vietnam demands China move oil rig in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea and abandon plans to start drilling there.

  6. 'The project ... would be one of the largest foreign investments in decades in Myanmar. Myanmar currently imports most of its fuel.'

  7. Chinese state-controlled commodity trader won approval from Myanmar to build a long-planned $3 bn refinery there.

  8. 'Dandong has long been a trade hub between North Korean and China, with both overland and sea trade flowing through the city.'

  9. Vessel tracking data: North Korean ships have made no visits to the Chinese port at Dandong in the last 15 days.

  10. That 'would form part of the repositioning of troops and assets of the US in the country under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement'

  11. Philippines: U.S. HIMARS system being used in ongoing war games will likely remain there - deterrence against China.

  12. 'Japan’s relative submarine capability is improved by the Future Submarine Program but not Australia’s.'

  13. Why the Japanese submarine offer is not the right option for Australia. via

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      Works at Bloomberg TV. All views expressed here are my own.

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  15. An interesting paragraph in a Global Times piece on the Sri Lankan PM's visit to China.

  16. Same: North Korea’s military threats are rhetorical, aimed to increase its bargaining options without any real intention of starting a war.

  17. People's Daily commentary: “North Korea is deviating further away from the right path”.

  18. Searching for a plausible-sounding strategy for solving China's growing debt problem, and not finding one.

  19. Russian Minister: China is set to move a number of export-oriented industrial enterprises to the Russian far east.

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