Ethnic armed groups must choose between remaining resource gatekeepers for China or using their mineral wealth to pursue lasting peace and political legitimacy.

One month on from the northern Shan capital’s handover, Beijing’s promised ceasefire monitoring office is nowhere to be seen – raising questions about its trust in the junta.

Abstract: In this paper, a new chaos-based hash function is proposed based on a recently proposed structure known as the deterministic chaotic finite state automata (DCFSA ... states and three simple ...