[카테고리:] Foreign Affairs
How China Silences Foreign Dissidents
On the bucolic campus of Purdue University in Indiana, deep in America’s heartland and 7,000 miles from his home in China, Zhihao Kong thought he could finally express himself. In a rush of adrenaline in 2020, the graduate student posted…
Joe Biden is Facing the Worst Moment of his Presidency
President Joe Biden listens during a G7 Leaders’ virtual meeting Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in the White House Situation Room / Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz US President Joe Biden is facing the worst moment of his presidency….
China is Using Mythology and Sci-Fi to Sell its Space Programme to the World
On the morning of June 17, China launched its long-awaited Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, carrying three Chinese astronauts — or taikonauts — towards the Tianhe core module. The module itself was launched at the end of April, forming part of the permanent…
Big Pharma The Patent White Knight of Pandemics?
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, addresses his remarks at a coronavirus update briefing Monday, March 16, 2020, in the James S. Brady…
Russia is in Economic Meltdown
New Politic The invasion of Ukraine has placed Russia on the verge of bankruptcy. Interest rates have doubled, the stock market has closed, and the rouble has fallen to its lowest level ever. The military costs of war have been exacerbated by an unprecedented level of…
The Return of Centrism
President Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden enter the inauguration platform during the 59th Presidential Inauguration ceremony in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021 / DOD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II Joe Biden’s politics are…
The Era of Angela Merkel Comes to an End
President Barack Obama greets Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in the Oval Office, June 26, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) “Now she is all alone.” Former president Barack Obama slightly squinted and bit his lip in characteristic…
Macron Undermines French Secularism
Credits: Paul Kagame / Flickr Every so often, the debate between freedom of expression and freedom of religion is thrust into France’s public sphere. France finds itself embroiled in a zero-sum tug of war between an unfettered sense of free…
The Iraq War, Ten Years On
New Politic Margaret Hassan has been all but forgotten. By 2003, the year of the joint British and US invasion of Iraq, she was a dual British and Iraqi national, the country lead for CARE International, one of the world’s…
How the Republican Party Parted Ways With Republicanism
President Donald J. Trump boards Air Force One for his return flight home from Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida / Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian One thing the United States has always prided itself on is…