Can China’s Popular Nationalism Break the China-Russia Alliance?
After a century and a half in decline, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believes it has the historical responsibility to...
Asia and Pacific
Gulf Peace: China’s Progress and U.S. Standstill
While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was visiting the Middle East, delegations from Iran and Saudi Arabia secretly visited Beijing and...
Perspective | The Moral Myopia of Woke Culture
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,...
‘Loss and Damage’ Was the Focus of COP27. Don’t Expect Climate Finance To Change Anytime Soon!
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, colloquially known as COP27, took place between November 6 and November 18, 2022....
Perspective | Being Ethnically Ambiguous in a Race-Fueled America
No one I’ve met has ever been able to guess my race correctly. Not that it’s a competition, or that...
China, Money Can’t Buy You Love
The American political scientist Joseph Nye once said: “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because...
South Korea’s President Yoon Says Goodbye to the Blue House and Hello to Controversy
After his election as the new President of South Korea in May, Yoon Suk-Yeol hastily implemented one of his key...
Fall 2022 Issue
Around the world, democracy is under attack. The election of populist leaders that reject pluralism continues to be a dominant...
Making of a Martyr
Imran Khan’s constitutional coup and subsequent dissolution of the National Assembly has polarized Pakistan; a flurry of allegations has magnified...
China’s Political Awakening Amidst Zero-COVID
For three years, the CCP’s zero-COVID policy in the aftermath of the Wuhan outbreak has included mass lockdowns, excessive testings,...
