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![How Portugal Forged an Empire in Asia How Portugal Forged an Empire in Asia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-a_partida_de_vasco_da_gama_para_a_índia_em_1497.jpg)
How Portugal Forged an Empire in Asia
By Franz-Stefan Gady
How did a small, impoverished kingdom on the edge of Europe become a global maritime power at the beginning of the 16th century?
![Why Should Timor-Leste Turn To Portugal? Why Should Timor-Leste Turn To Portugal?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-01-16_11-30-37.jpg)
Why Should Timor-Leste Turn To Portugal?
By Ken Westmoreland
There are good reasons why Timor-Leste will not seek to restore constitutional links with its former colonial master.
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Should Timor-Leste Turn to Portugal?
By Jordan Peterson
Rather than waiting for ASEAN, the less conventional option might prove more effective.
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China’s Southern European Spending Spree
Five hundred years ago Portugal began the quasi-colonization of China. With Lisbon deeply in debt, the tables have turned.
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