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Global South Media And Think Tank Forum - China

This undated photo shows copies of the think tank report "Colonization of the Mind -- The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of U.S. Cognitive Warfare." Photo by Chen Yehua/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Global South Media And Think Tank Forum - China

This undated photo shows a copy of the think tank report "Colonization of the Mind -- The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of U.S. Cognitive Warfare." Photo by Chen Yehua/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pro-Palestinian protestors march from the National Gallery to ICE Headquarters in Washington, DC, on Saturday April 5, 2025. Thi

Carmen Guerrero poses for a portrait in front of the Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC, during a march of Pro-Palestinian protestors march from the National Gallery to ICE Headquarters in Washington, DC, on Saturday April 5, 2025. This comes as a response to the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil as well as the settlement of Northern Gaza in recent months. She wears an outfit celebrating her South American heritage, and in acknowledgement of the parallel of the European colonization of South America and what she sees as the current day Palestine colonization by Israel. Photo by Mattie Neretin / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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May Day Rally - Gap

A demonstrator carries a sign reading “Respect for the rights of peoples, stop colonization, no peace without justice”, France, Hautes-Alpes, Gap, May 1, 2024. May 1 is the international day of workers' struggle. On this occasion, the inter-union, CGT, CFDT, FSU, Solidaires, CFE-CGC, and Unsa demonstrated in the streets of Gap. Photo by Thibaut Durand/ABACAPRESS.COM.

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Divisive Australia Day an opportunity to reflect: PM

STORY: Divisive Australia Day an opportunity to reflect: PM SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 26, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 27, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:46 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of a speech by Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia 2. various of Aboriginal people celebrating Australia Day 3. various of Lake Burley Griffin with the flag STORYLINE: Australia's prime minister on Friday described Australia Day as an opportunity to reflect on the country's achievements amid calls to change the date of the holiday. Held every year on Jan. 26, Australia Day marks the anniversary of the 1788 landing of the British First Fleet in the country. Led by Indigenous communities who mark the date as "Invasion Day" or "Survival Day" to reflect the massacres of Aboriginal people following colonization, the campaign for the date of the national holiday to be changed has grown in recent years. Addressing the national citizenship and flag-raising ceremony in Canberra on Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albane

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Pro-Palestine Rally - Paris

Demonstration in support of the Palestinian people to demand a ceasefire, the end of military operations against the Gaza Strip, the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people between the Republic Square and the Square of Clichy. Demonstrator's procession behind a banner with the message ceasefire stop the colonization, during the demonstration, on January 13, 2024 in Paris, France. Photo by Christophe Michel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Students trace Korean dynasty mission to Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean student group tracing the path of goodwill missions sent to Japan by the last dynasty on the Korean Peninsula board a plane at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul on Nov. 1, 2014. The members will study the history of relations between Japan and Korea by following the footsteps of Joseon missions dispatched by the Yi clan's dynasty that lasted until Japan's colonization of the peninsula in 1910.

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Colonial-era Japanese department store reopened in Taiwan

TAINAN, Taiwan - Locals pose in front of Lin Department Store, reopened in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on June 14, 2014. The store first opened in 1932 and was operated by a Japanese entrepreneur during Taiwan's 1895-1945 colonization by Japan.

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Colonial-era Japanese department store reopened in Taiwan

TAINAN, Taiwan - Shoppers stroll inside Lin Department Store, reopened in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on June 14, 2014. The store first opened in 1932 and was operated by a Japanese entrepreneur during Taiwan's 1895-1945 colonization by Japan.

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Colonial-era Japanese department store revived in Tainan

TAINAN, Taiwan - Locals in Japanese yukata (summer-time kimono) parade in front of Lin Department Store, reopened in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on June 14, 2014. The store first opened in 1932 and was operated by a Japanese entrepreneur during Taiwan's 1895-1945 colonization by Japan.

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Arirang mass games

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's Arirang mass games open at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on Aug. 1, 2012. The event features a gymnastics and artistic spectacle that depicts the country's history from its fight against Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula to today's initiatives in promoting science and technology in an opera-style show.

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Arirang mass games

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's Arirang mass games open at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on Aug. 1, 2012. The event features a gymnastics and artistic spectacle that depicts the country's history from its fight against Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula to today's initiatives in promoting science and technology in an opera-style show.

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Arirang mass games

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The North Korean (R) and Chinese national flags appear in the Arirang mass games that opened at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on Aug. 1, 2012. The event features a gymnastics and artistic spectacle that depicts North Korea's history from its fight against Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula to today's initiatives in promoting science and technology in an opera-style show.

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S. Korean envoy seeks Japan 'calm' over textbook revision

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong urged Japan on June 22 at a meeting in Shimonoseki in western Japan to deal ''calmly'' with South Korea's demand for revisions to some history textbooks approved for use from next April. In May, Seoul demanded that Japan make 35 revisions to the new junior high school textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's wartime colonization of Korea.

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S. Korea urges Japan to revise textbooks by Aug.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo responds to a question in an interview with Kyodo News at the ministry in Seoul on May 23. He urged Tokyo to revise by August some history textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of Korea and gloss over wartime atrocities by Japanese troops.

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Habibie answers assembly's reservations, questions

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President B.J. Habibie (C) on Oct. 17 defends his decision to allow East Timor to determine its own future as he responded to questions about his Thursday accountability speech at the country's highest state body.Citing the country's 1945 Constitution, which proclaims that independence is the right of all the nations, Habibie told a plenary session of the 700-member People's Consultative Assembly that Indonesia occupied East Timor in 1975 to free it from Portuguese colonization.

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Resumption of normalization talks up to Japan: N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun says at a news conference on Sept. 25 that Pyongyang is ready to restart normalization talks with Japan but that improved relations would depend on whether Japan resolves to ''liquidate its past crimes.'' Japan would have to apologize for its 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula until the end of World War II and pay compensation, Paek said after making an address to a U.N. General Assembly session.

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Ozawa honors late Korean independent activist

Ichiro Ozawa (R), leader of Japan's Liberal Party, junior partner of Japan's ruling coalition, offers flowers before the altar of the late Korean hero Kim Ku in Seoul on July 18. Kim was an independent activist who fought against Japanese colonization of Korea.

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Leaders of Japan, S. Korea hold summit

Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) shakes hands with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung after signing a joint declaration at the end of the summit talks at the Akasaka state guesthouse in Tokyo on Oct. 8. In the declaration Japan expressed ''deep remorse'' and offered its ''heartfelt apology'' to the South Korean people for Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945. Kim arrived in Japan on Oct. 7 for a four-day visit.

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Chinese modernization offers alternative model for other developing countries: scholar

STORY: Chinese modernization offers alternative model for other developing countries: scholar DATELINE: Nov. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:18 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of China 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOHN PANG, Senior fellow at New York-based Bard College 3. various of China 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOHN PANG, Senior fellow at New York-based Bard College STORYLINE: A scholar has said that the Chinese path to modernization offers the Global South an alternative model to pursue modernization attuned to their own realities. John Pang, a senior fellow at New York-based Bard College, made the remarks in a recent interview with Xinhua. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOHN PANG, Senior fellow at New York-based Bard College "China has achieved in 40 years what it took the West 150 years to do, an industrial and social transformation that actually dwarfs the industrial revolution. It did this without colonization, without imperialism, and without exploiting other countries. This is an i

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U.S. not qualified to tell China what to do on respecting national sovereignty: FM spokesperson

STORY: U.S. not qualified to tell China what to do on respecting national sovereignty: FM spokesperson DATELINE: Feb. 24, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): HUA CHUNYING, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): HUA CHUNYING, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson "First I would like to say that, when it comes to how to respect the national sovereignty and territory integrity, the U.S. may not have the qualification to tell China what to do. As for national sovereignty and territory integrity, the Chinese people feel strongly about it. Since modern times, the Chinese people were subject to foreign aggression and colonization. We have a sad memory of the humiliating past. Just over 20 years ago, our embassy to the Yugoslavia Federation was bombed by NATO, where three Chinese journalists died and many people were injured. And still today, we're seeing the real threats of certain

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International Safe Abortion Day in Colombia

A demonstrator holds a scarf that reads "No women and no so do earth is a territory of colonization" during a demonstration demanding the decriminalization of abortion during the Global Day of Action for Legal and Safe Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogota on September 28, 2021. Photo by Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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S. Korean expert on Tokyo-Seoul ties explains gap over history views

Choi So Myon, well versed in Japan-South Korea relations, speaks in an interview in Tokyo on March 22, 2015, explaining differences in how the two nations view their history of war and colonization. The two neighbors marked the 50th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral relations on June 22 at a time when their ties are strained over historical and territorial rows. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan defense chief Inada visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2016. The visit immediately drew criticism from China and South Korea which suffered from past Japanese colonization and military aggression. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Colonial-era Japanese department store reopened in Taiwan

TAINAN, Taiwan - Locals pose in front of Lin Department Store, reopened in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on June 14, 2014. The store first opened in 1932 and was operated by a Japanese entrepreneur during Taiwan's 1895-1945 colonization by Japan. (Kyodo)

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Colonial-era Japanese department store reopened in Taiwan

TAINAN, Taiwan - Shoppers stroll inside Lin Department Store, reopened in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on June 14, 2014. The store first opened in 1932 and was operated by a Japanese entrepreneur during Taiwan's 1895-1945 colonization by Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japan defense chief Inada visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada (R standing) speaks to reporters after visiting the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2016. The visit immediately drew criticism from China and South Korea which suffered from past Japanese colonization and military aggression. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan defense chief Inada visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2016. The visit immediately drew criticism from China and South Korea which suffered from past Japanese colonization and military aggression. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan defense chief Inada visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2016. The visit immediately drew criticism from China and South Korea which suffered from past Japanese colonization and military aggression. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean envoy seeks Japan 'calm' over textbook revision

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong urged Japan on June 22 at a meeting in Shimonoseki in western Japan to deal ''calmly'' with South Korea's demand for revisions to some history textbooks approved for use from next April. In May, Seoul demanded that Japan make 35 revisions to the new junior high school textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's wartime colonization of Korea.

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S. Korea urges Japan to revise textbooks by Aug.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo responds to a question in an interview with Kyodo News at the ministry in Seoul on May 23. He urged Tokyo to revise by August some history textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of Korea and gloss over wartime atrocities by Japanese troops.

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Habibie answers assembly's reservations, questions+

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President B.J. Habibie (C) on Oct. 17 defends his decision to allow East Timor to determine its own future as he responded to questions about his Thursday accountability speech at the country's highest state body.Citing the country's 1945 Constitution, which proclaims that independence is the right of all the nations, Habibie told a plenary session of the 700-member People's Consultative Assembly that Indonesia occupied East Timor in 1975 to free it from Portuguese colonization.

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Resumption of normalization talks up to Japan: N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun says at a news conference on Sept. 25 that Pyongyang is ready to restart normalization talks with Japan but that improved relations would depend on whether Japan resolves to ''liquidate its past crimes.'' Japan would have to apologize for its 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula until the end of World War II and pay compensation, Paek said after making an address to a U.N. General Assembly session.

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Ozawa honors late Korean independent activist

Ichiro Ozawa (R), leader of Japan's Liberal Party, junior partner of Japan's ruling coalition, offers flowers before the altar of the late Korean hero Kim Ku in Seoul on July 18. Kim was an independent activist who fought against Japanese colonization of Korea. ==Kyodo

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Leaders of Japan, S. Korea hold summit

Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) shakes hands with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung after signing a joint declaration at the end of the summit talks at the Akasaka state guesthouse in Tokyo on Oct. 8. In the declaration Japan expressed ''deep remorse'' and offered its ''heartfelt apology'' to the South Korean people for Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945. Kim arrived in Japan on Oct. 7 for a four-day visit. ==Kyodo