by Christina Revilla Chacon | Jun 6, 2021 | All, China, Democracy, Elections, Europe, National Security, U.S. Foreign Policy
Democracy in Crisis: Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, authoritarianism was on the rise globally; democracies were in decline for the 15th consecutive year. Since then, much like all other aspects of our daily lives, the pandemic exacerbated those ailments. In fact, the...
by Ha Huynh | May 2, 2021 | All, China, Law of the Sea, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, Territorial Disputes
Speckled on the vast ocean, the Paracel and Spratly Islands comprise clusters of islands and islets in the South China Sea. Mostly uninhabitable and doubtfully rich with resources, the South China Sea has been the source of increasing contention officially on the...
by Danielle Barnes-Smith | Jan 11, 2021 | All, China, Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy
Tweet For students returning home from school, there is often a sense of joy that comes with the reunion of student to family. But for some Uyghur students coming home to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, they were met with the...
by Luc C. Pierre-Louis | Dec 16, 2020 | All, China, U.S. Foreign Policy
Tweet In the months following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, over six lawsuits have been filed against China in U.S. federal courts seeking damages for deaths, injuries, and economic losses caused by COVID-19. Concurrently, the United States’ Congress...
