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正From April 27 to 28, 2019, the Second Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network Forum held by the Secretariat(housed in China NGO Network for International ExchangesCNIE) of Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network(SIRONET) was staged in Beijing. At the forum, some 170 NGO representatives from 22 countries and regions made deep-going discussions around the theme Shared Commitment to Practical Cooperation and Better Future.     

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A Sino-Australian Security Cooperation in a New Context symposium, a follow-up session to one held in Canberra on April 20, 2010, was held in Beijing, October 28-29, 2010. The symposium is     

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Most scholars explain political interactions within OPEC countries with reference to clusters of economic and political variables. In this paper, we use dyadic interaction data to describe the frequency and affective orientation between OPEC pairs. Explanations for the prominent trends within the four time periods are offered. The analysis suggests that no combination of political or economic factors explain consistently the coalitions and cleavages within OPEC between 1959 and 1974.     

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On March 11,2011,the world witnessed one of Japan’s biggest earthquakes,coupled with tsunami waves as high as 23.6 meters.The earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima Nuclear power plants.On12April,