The inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States promises a more competent and less contentious approach to foreign affairs than was the case with his predecessor Donald Trump....
As Covid-19 continues to spread throughout the world, many nations have implemented a variety of measures intended to combat its spread. Government actions have been focused on establishing...
US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the international community to push back against “the most brutal and pervasive oppression China has seen in decades” in its 2020 annual report....
Kashmir is no longer a suzerain state. It is now directly under the Indian President’s Union Territory. This isn’t the end, Kashmir has been re-fragmented and the Ladakh region is divided into a...
Five years after its foundation, the Eurasian Economic Union exists only on paper. Although the member state leaders are constantly trying to portray the EAEU as a counter balance to the European...
He was just two years old when he chosen to be the leader of a vast nation that is twice the size of France and just a teenager when he saw that nation stolen from its people, forcing him to flee...
In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, Oriana Skylar Mastro writes that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being financed via loans given to developing countries “without the usual...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don't forget Natalia Antonova's #WednesdayWisdom, on how Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is a good thing for women,...
Happy New Year, gentle readers! Here's looking forward to a better and brighter 2018. Before we delve into sharing the longreads we're loving right now, our most popular post last week was E. Young's...
When I moved back to Hong Kong, I was taken aback by how many people asked, “What is it like to live in China?” Well-meaning friends and acquaintances would send me articles about life in...