On October 23, 2023, Xi Jinping, gave a speech calling for China to “cultivate a new marriage and childbirth culture, strengthen guidance of young people’s views on marriage, parenthood and…
“We must not take our eyes off China.” Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho made this claim in a press release last year in regard to China’s expanding power both in…
The 20th Chinese Communist Party’s Congress, held from Oct. 16 to 22, will likely go down as a major turning point in Chinese modern history and foreign policy. The Congress…
A large part of Biden’s winning message in 2020 was of a shift away from Donald Trump’s unpredictable and often destructive behavior — a shift “back to normal.” Perhaps nowhere…
Signing ceremony for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, held virtually. Source: The New York Times. On Sunday, November 15, 15 Asian-Pacific countries signed the largest free trade deal in the…
Poster for 2020’s Mulan (via IndieWire) In late 2018, China began to experience rising criticism from the international community for its internment of certain Muslim minorities in the region of…
The White House announced that on November 6, U.S. President Donald Trump had held diplomatic consultations with foreign ministers and other senior officials from Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia. The meeting was reportedly mainly focused on resolving the dispute over a new dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River.
At the start of the 20th Century, China and India were in the same economic positions: both nations have their own share of troubles trying to boost their respective national GDPs whilst trying to build a more robust system of accountability for their banks. The majority of banks in both nations are largely owned by the state.
TikTok, a video creating and sharing app, has the potential to be a national security threat. The lip-syncing and comedy app is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese internet technology company that has recently been under scrutiny for data collection.
For this year’s G20 summit, Argentinian President Mauricio Macri hosted the other nineteen members of the Group Twenty in Buenos Aires. Starting November 30, its meetings were marked with…