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Turning Tides: Climate Change Watershed Prompts Reevaluation of Nuclear Energy and Deep-Sea Mining
Energy policy and environmentalism have long proven to be ideological battlegrounds, with frequent rifts over offshore drilling, gas pipelines, wind farms, hydropower, and nuclear...
Ethiopia’s diplomatic retreat: The case of portal deal politics with Somaliland
Following Ethiopia's 2018 internal political reform, the country has seen a backsliding in diplomatic relations. This retreat into diplomacy occurs as a result of...
Cross-Straits Relations have become more Dynamic and Volatile – Here are Four Reasons Why
Contemporary China-Taiwan cross-Straits relations have become a significant defining feature of regional security and stability in the Indo-Pacific, and are an equally important bone...
Measuring What Matters: Rethinking Sustainable Economic Development Beyond GDP
“Sustainable Development requires balancing economic progress with environmental conservation”, - Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen.
We live in a world marked by uninhibited opulence, the...
The “necklace” along the Silk Road
How many Chinese are there in the world outside their homeland? Speaking of overseas Chinese - be they of Chinese citizenship or origin -...
Chinese “two sessions” meetings 2024: An opportunity for China to introduce itself to the world
The Chinese government work report 2024 is very important this year from your professional perspective as an expert in Chinese Politics, there are many...
Gaza war turns Palestine into a potential Middle Eastern lightning rod
The Gaza war has turned Palestine into a lightning rod for mounting frustration and discontent in Arab autocracies such as Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria,...
A Second Trump Presidency? Expect a Three-Pronged Assault on Law, Justice and National Security
“I hold despicable, and always have…anyone who puts his own popularity before his country.” -Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes
It’s high time...
Time for a Free Kick
Newcastle and Manchester United have a fierce historic rivalry in the Premier League and its precursor the old First Division, which makes any off-the-pitch...
China, Modernization, High Level Development and New World Order
1. China is entering the “two sessions” time. How do you view the significance of the “Two Sessions” in China and the decisions made...