Recently, a destabilising and disturbing trend has been proliferating throughout all corners of the globe. This year has seen record numbers of refugees fleeing economic hardship, political prosecution, and vicious attacks in c...
Ecuador is the first country in the world that granted in its Constitution the rights to nature. In Ecuador’s new Constitution, which was established in 2008, the country recognized the rights of nature itself. The 86th Artic...
The huge growth of Chinese political and business interests in Africa is conceivably the most significant development for the continent’s international relations since the ending of the Cold War. Published trade figures alone...
Oil & Gas Pipelines: Geopolitics in the Making The announcement of the construction of the 1600 Km Iranian-Pakistani gas pipeline didn’t fail to create a true sensation in the world of politics, let alone in the corr...
We’re all used to flipping an item over and reading the words “Made In China” on the back. A few days ago it was reported that China’s manufacturing activity is at a 16 month high. It makes you wonder e...
Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, published a chart on Twitter showing how often his micro-blog was deleted by the Chinese government’s censorship arm. Lee regularly blogs about cultural and technology issue...
The Syrian political crisis has escalated rapidly in the last few years with Bashar al-Assad’s government employing chemical weapons against its own civilians. Even though Syria committed to destroying its chemical stockpile ...
Previously – Tibet: Inside the Occupation (A Colonized Tibet and the Attack on Religion) Economic Disparity It is not only the loss of material culture and the manipulation of Tibet’s physical environment that is bein...
“China loves peace” (Li, 2014). This solemn claim by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has probably sparked scepticism, if not misbelief, in Washington, Tokyo or Canberra. The recent Chinese charm offensive reiterating the Mid...