China’s Communist Party leaders have long understood the potency of symbols and the power to write history. It’s why Hong Kong protesters defacing the Chinese emblem with black paint and throwing a Chinese flag into …
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China is expressing an interest in joining the updated Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, which was originally designed as the centrepiece of the Obama administration’s ‘pivot to Asia’, intended to cement a non-Chinese Asian regional group. …
On 10 June, the Republican Study Committee—comprising 147 Republican Party members of the US House of Representatives—released its national security strategy. The 120-page document, titled Strengthening America and countering global threats, outlines a series of …
On 29 May, against the backdrop of a Black Lives Matter protest, a gunman opened fire on Federal Protective Service officers outside a courthouse in Oakland, California, killing one and badly wounding another. He fired …
In my previous post, I discussed the militarisation of American policing and its adverse effects during the recent protests. Militarisation, coupled with a perceived lack of police leadership, accountability and trustworthiness, presents a worrying future …