Asia-Pacific
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What Is Happening in Bangladesh?
What is Happening in the Philippines?
Taiwan: Country Security Situation
What is Happening in Papua New Guinea?
Philippines: Special Report
Chinese Influence in the Asia-Pacific: An Overview
Background
The last four decades have seen a phenomenal rise in the power of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the world in general and Asia Pacific in particular. The watershed period was in the 1970s when Western rapprochement toward Communist China had allowed the country into