China has ramped up its aggressive territorial policies in recent months, overturning the autonomy of Hong Kong, engaging in border conflicts with India, and firing missiles into the South China Sea. Chinese jets have also been increasingly breaching the airspace of Taiwan. In a speech to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Taiwanese President, Tsai ...
Tsai Ing-wen began her second term as the President of Taiwan by delivering a speech in which she outlined her plans for the island nation. One aspect highlighted in the speech is the establishment of a constitutional amendment committee, something that has attracted the attention of the Chinese Communist Party. Tsai Ing-wen asserts Taiwan’s identity Tsai Ing-wen ...
During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Jin Dynasty (265-420), warlord Wang Dun campaigned to fight against the imperial government. His troops advanced eastward along the Yangtze River to Jiankang (modern Nanjing) planning to overthrow the emperor and prevent his escape so that Wan Dun could be emperor himself. When Emperor Ming learned of ...
U.S. President Donald Trump recently visited India, addressing a crowd of more than 100,000 people and announcing a military deal. Many feel that the visit will upgrade the relationship between the two giant democracies as America increasingly looks toward the country as an ally to counter China in Asia. The India visit “This relationship is ...
On January 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a slew of changes to the country’s constitution. A few hours later, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the government resigned to allow the president to make the necessary changes. Mikhail Mishustin was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Russia. Changes in Russia “Under the new ...
On the evening of January 11, Taiwan’s presidential election came to an end. Incumbent Tsai Ing-wen collected 8.17 million votes, a record in the country’s history, resulting in her being re-elected as president. The United States, Britain, and the EU all congratulated her on her victory. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intervention in Taiwan failed. ...
The Taiwanese election results are in and it is something that Beijing won’t be too happy about. Tsai Ing-wen, the current president and a vocal advocate of Taiwan’s democracy, has secured a second term as the leader of the country. She secured about 57 percent of the vote, which put her far ahead of pro-China ...
The results of the recent Taiwanese elections came on like a heart attack for Beijing as pro-democracy candidate Tsai Ing-wen won with a massive 57 percent vote share. This is the biggest election victory for a candidate since presidential elections began in 1996. While Tsai Ing-wen secured over 8 million votes, her closest rival, pro-Beijing ...
Dominic Cummings, the advisor to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, recently posted a job advertisement that invited applications from mathematicians, scientists, and “weirdos.” Their task will be to help the Prime Minister attain “rapid progress with long-term problems.” Hiring ‘weirdos’ “We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought ...
After Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party emerged the winner of the December general elections in the UK, many on the left were aghast. The opposition Labour party’s vote share fell by 7 percent when compared to the 2017 election, with the party getting the smallest number of relative Parliamentary seats in more than 80 years. So ...
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