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Integration or disintegration
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 11/08/2017
» One of the lesser-known activities of the European Union in this region is the funding of academic research designed to "help the EU and its member states make coherent and culturally relevant foreign policies" towards the region.
At a dangerous juncture
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 12/03/2012
» For all but the most recent bit of human history, India and China have been the two great civilisations of the world. Although they look adjacent on a map, in reality they are separated by a corridor of highly inhospitable territory _ great deserts, huge mountains, fierce rivers. The southern part of this barrier is formed by a knot of hills and great rivers on the upper border of Southeast Asia. Armies struggled across this barrier in the Second World War, but the routes promptly disappeared like tracks in the sand.