China has suddenly adopted a harsher and more threatening tone towards the West. Beijing recently sent a warning to US President Barack Obama not to receive the Dalai Lama, or else. It has also threatened sanctions against countries that sell weaponry to Taiwan.
China's new assertiveness reflects its growing influence on the world stage, says RNW's senior foreign affairs commentator Bernard Hammelburg, and it's a signal we can ill afford to ignore.
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The time has come to talk of many things:of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax-of cabbages-and kings and principles-and why the sea is boiling hot-and whether pigs have wings.
One should be more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give,give".
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