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  • Is US intelligence being undone by the isolationists in US Congress.

    The rise of intelligence agencies activities is not much of a surprise, but the movement into the realm of technology is a spate that worries those who remember Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange’s warnings of mission creep. That William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency is writing in this weeks Foreign Affairs, tells…

  • Can Israel really do without a two state argument.

    There is an argument among the extremists in Israel for an enlarged state. Eretz Israel is translated as greater Israel and encompasses the West Bank and Gaza. But what nobody really asks is what do you do with the Palestinians? Of course there have been calls to forceably deport the Palestinians from these lands, and…

  • Taiwan’s 2024 election

    The 1984 Sino – British agreement that Britain and China had over the status of Hong Kong, and the agreement that there would be one nation and two systems, has galvanised the elections in Taiwan. Furthermore, the questions concerning identity and independence is also being reflected by the war in Ukraine, and the difficulties that…

  • Jimmy Lai and the umbrellas of Hong Kong

    The umbrellas have been put away for the time being, but the arguments of where Hong Kong stands still have to be navigated. Jimmy Lai, the editor, founder and owner of Apple Daily is being charged under Hong Kong’s legislature with a whole plethora of charges, that range from conspiracy to commit foreign collusion to…

  • Welcome to a new year

    Welcome to a new year. There are so many important elections to look forward to this year, but this is the year of critical argument where nations are dependent on the outcome of two very important elections that will determine how the world is seen and moves forward. The first election is a given, it…

  • Weekend read… Empires

    John Darwin argued that a formal empire could be defined by a sustained effort to assimilate a country to the political, economic or cultural system of another power. (John Darwin (1997) SS9.2). Britain a maritime power and China a land-based empire, initially took significant different approaches to the expansion of their empires and how these…