Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024. The incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a pyrrhic victory—with DPP keeping the presidential seat but losing the majority in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Congress). The political status of Taiwan is one of the few, if not the only, issues that have won bipartisan support. New Developments in the Trilateral Relationshi...

Die Linke war und ist stolz darauf, internationalistisch zu sein. Ihr Leitspruch war immer "Proletarier aller Ländern, vereinigt Euch!? Und doch stritten Linke auch darum, ob und wie nationale Befreiungskämpfe zu unterstützen seien, ob die Einheit der Nation auch ihr Anliegen sein dürfe. Mehr als einmal wurden sie überrascht, wenn nationale, ja chauvinistische Parolen Arbeiter und Unterdrücker im Kampf gegen andere Chauvinisten vereinten. Der vorliegende Band der "Edition Linke Klassiker" ...

Poetry should become the voice of underprivileged and deprived people and should not be only for entertainment. It can also be used as a weapon to fight against widely prevalent injustice in society.Even within the ambit of poetry, Ghazal is the most appealing format of expression. Ghazal, by virtue of its underlying rhythm, establishes an immediate rapport with the reader.It is true to some extent that Ghazal is still recognised as an Urdu phenomenon as they are written by n...

Fight for justice with swashbuckling soldiers in this abridged retelling of The Three Musketeers, p****art of the bestselling Classic Starts® series that has sold more than 8 million copies!“All for one and one for all!” Aramis, Athos, and Porthos make up the three Musketeers. Oh, and there’s also the not-quite-yet Musketeer D’Artagnan. Together, the four men must use their wits and their swords to battle an evil Cardinal, the traitorous Milady, a...

Pumuckl und die Ostereier Meister Eder verbringt die Feiertage bei seiner Schwester und der kleinen Bärbel. Und den Pumuckl nimmt er einfach in der Manteltasche mit. Der kleine Kobold darf dann die Ostereier verstecken. Aber wenn er schon einmal dabei ist, versteckt er auch gleich alles andere, was ihm in die Finger kommt. Leider findet niemand etwas wieder, das der Pumuckl versteckt hat… Der erste April Jeder weiß, dass am 1. April überall Scherze gemacht werden. Auch der Meister Eder wir...

The physics of strongly interacting matter in an external magnetic field is presently emerging as a topic of great cross-disciplinary interest for particle, nuclear, astro- and condensed matter physicists.It is known that strong magnetic fields are created in heavy ion collisions, an insight that has made it possible to study a variety of surprising and intriguing phenomena that emerge from the interplay of quantum anomalies, the topology of non-Abelian gauge fields, and the magnet...