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Xi Jinping turns 60 on June 15. / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Three birthdays say much about China’s future and its leaders’ ‘revolutionary bloodline’

Freepressers 9:56 am | By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com There are three major birthdays and anniversaries in this year’s political calendar – and how they will be celebrated says much about the country’s future. The first one is the 60th birthday of President and party General Secretary Xi Jinping, which falls on June 15.The second is…

Russia’s counter-intelligence arrests, turns over CIA agent in Moscow

Freepressers 9:48 am | Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it had caught a CIA agent in Moscow red-handed in the process of recruiting a Russian man who was in fact a FSB undercover agent. “The FSB’s counterintelligence service detained a CIA agent, who was…

Chronicling thirty years of upheaval in Afghanistan’s Garmser district

Freepressers 10:07 am | By Brian M Downing Carter Malkasian, War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier. (London: C Hurst & Co Publishers; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). A government that is losing to an insurgency isn’t being out-fought, it’s being out-governed. – Bernard Fall In 1972, late…