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THE EX-GOOGLE HACKER TAKING ON THE WORLD’S SPY AGENCIES

(BGF) - In a Wired article, Andy Greenberg covers 34 year-old Morgan Marquis-Boire, who among other things, has been instrumental in the creation of the Tor network that hides user location, has worked on combatting the Aurora breach at Google, and has always been...

The dangers of an ascendant China

(BGF) - In a commentary published in the Vietnam media, Vietnamese official Bui Duc Lai criticized China for its provocative behaviors of deploying drilling rig in the Vietnamese Exclusive economic zone. He also noted that China is on its way to achieve its goal of...

The U.S., Europe, and China

(BGF) - Will Europe have a strong enough voice in resolving disputes in the East Asia, or just leave it to the U.S? The Harvard professor Joseph Nye, member of the Boston Global Forum's Board of Thinkers, shared his view in the course of BGF's one month length...

South China Seas and the Paracel Islands

(BGF) - The U.S. Ambassador James D. Bindenagel believed that the resurgence of nationalism past which lurks behind modern leaders' mind is the truly root of  the world's current conflicts and imposes dangerous challenge to the liberal international order that exists...

THE WORLD’S MISTAKES IN DEALING WITH CHINA

(BGF) - China has being seen as a third world country where the U.S and Western countries lay their manufacturing factories. And the real fact is, most of them are underestimating China. The world did not realize the truly danger of Chinese extreme nationalism which...

Could this map of China start a war?

Could this map of China start a war?

(BGF) – This Washington Post article reports on a map released by Chinese authorities showing all of China's territorial claims. Author Ishaan Tharoor argues that the map may flare tensions in Asia, with China's increasing assertiveness posing a growing threat to its...