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Norway Questions China’s Temperament for Seat on Arctic Council

Posted June 5th, 2012 at 5:04 pm (UTC+0)
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Anger Over Nobel Peace Prize Stalling Beijing’s Admission to Polar Group China wants a bigger say in the Arctic, where thinning ice is opening faster trade routes to Asia in a region that could hold 20 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and natural gas. But its condemnation of Norway for Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel peace […]

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China Playing Bigger Diplomatic Role in Trying to End Sudan Conflict

Posted June 1st, 2012 at 6:35 pm (UTC+0)
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  How Much Is About Oil?     Chinese diplomats are stepping up their pursuit of a deal between Sudan and South Sudan to end cross-border hostilities and resume oil exports from the south.   Following South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s state visit to Beijing, China’s Special Representative for African Affairs, Zhong Jianhua, shuttled between […]

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Burma Hopes for Foreign Investment

Posted May 25th, 2012 at 6:32 pm (UTC+0)
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But Ties To China Still Important Burma is ripe for new foreign investment following the suspension of U.S. and European Union sanctions against the military-led government. So how would new business affect China’s economic and political patronage? Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato institute in Washington D.C., believes one important factor in Burma’s […]

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Progress In Burma But Concerns Linger

Posted May 18th, 2012 at 9:16 pm (UTC+0)
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  State Department Keeps Its Options Open   Washington is wary about the “irreversibility” of political reform in Burma and is moving carefully in upgrading its relations with the Southeast Asian nation. On the same day that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a suspension of nearly all financial restrictions on Burma this week, the […]

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Scott Stearns

Scott Stearns

Scott Stearns is VOA’s State Department correspondent. He has worked as VOA’s Dakar Bureau Chief, White House correspondent, and Nairobi Bureau Chief since beginning his career as a freelance reporter in the Liberian civil war. He has written for the BBC, UPI, the Associated Press, The Jerusalem Post, and The Economist. Scott has a Bachelors and Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University.

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