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Asia Times, January 5, 2022
Russia-China alliance against the US will be tested by Moscow's sensitive weaponry sales to Beijing's adversaries in Asia
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Asia Times, April 06, 2019
China and Russia are mounting a joint counter to US supremacy over Asia’s waterways, though bilateral grudges and suspicions endure
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Asia Times, January 26, 2019
Moscow is regaining much of what it lost in Asia, a new drive for power that overtly targets the US while delicately cutting into China's position and interests
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Far Eastern Economic Review, March 6, 2009
Today marks the one year anniversary of alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout's arrest in Bangkok, a contested covert operation that has put Thailand in the geopolitical middle of the United States and Russia.
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The Irrawaddy, June, 2006
Birobidzhan, a remote republic within Russia, provides a lesson to Burma on how not to federate along ethnic lines
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Asia Times, May 27, 2006
If headlines in the new and free - but often sensational and irresponsible - Russian press are to be believed, a massive influx of Chinese into Siberia and the Russian Far East is turning the area "yellow" and Russia is about to lose its easternmost provinces. Bertil Lintner reports.
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Asia Times, May 26, 2006
North Korean capitalism is thriving - just not inside North Korea. Pyongyang has steadily established a string of legitimate and less legitimate front companies across East and Southeast Asia, aimed at earning the cash-strapped government badly needed hard currency. And, as Bertil Lintner finds out, business is booming.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, October 02, 2003
An influx of illegal Chinese immigrants into the Russian Far East is helping Chinese organized-crime gangs to gain a lucrative new foothold in this lawless territory.
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Jane's Intelligence Review, September, 2003
As Chinese Triads in Vladivostok take over the reins of organised crime from Russian groups, Bertil Lintner examines the changing face of Russia's far east.
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Tokyo Journal, May 1996
Every month, Valerian, a Russian gangster, pays a tenth of his income to the Church in Ho Chi Minh City. "That's why I'm still alive. I believe in God," he says sipping at a glass of vodka in one of the city's many newly opened bars. "I don't like what I'm doing. But for us there is no other choice if we want to make money."
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