Featured Image: Photo by wu yi, Unsplash With U.S. and Chinese military engaged near Taiwan, a miscalculation could lead to armed violence. The armed conflict in Ukraine has heightened the debate on the possibility of armed conflict between China and Taiwan. Tensions between
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Featured Image: Photo by Dave Hoefler, Unsplash. On 4 March 2023, at the United Nations in New York an important step toward the protection of the oceans was taken with the presentation of a new Treaty on the High Seas for the protection
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Featured Image: Foto de Matti Karstedt: https://www.pexels.com/es-es/foto/una-nina-protestando-contra-la-guerra-en-ucrania-11284549/. President of France Emmanuel Macron was in China from 5-7 April 2023 and urged that China could play a major role in bringing peace to the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. China’s 12 point plan to resolve
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Featured Image: Picture By Boris Ulzibat: https://www.pexels.com/es-es/foto/arquitectura-china-la-gran-muralla-china-lugares-de-interes-3262994/ In an article “Tensions in the Asian Trinity: China, Japan, U.S.A.” I noted that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to visit Beijine for talks on 5-6 February 2023 and then set out some of
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Featured Image: Chou Tun-yi or Zhou Dunyi. By 清宫殿藏画本. 北京: 故宫博物馆出版社. 1994., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as the “World Interfaith Harmony Week” among
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Imagen destacada: Foto por Nuno Alberto. en Unsplash Una página en blanco, vacía en alto; se ha convertido en el símbolo de protesta en las manifestaciones que actualmente se extienden por diferentes partes de China. Así como el grito “Mujeres-Vida-Libertad”, las mujeres que
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Featured Image: Photo by Nuno Alberto. Unsplash An empty white page held high has become the symbol of protest in the manifestations currently spreading to different parts of China. Just as the cry “Women-Life- Liberty “, women cutting their long hair in
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Featured Image Photo by Egor Myznik. Unsplash. After late night negotiations; the every-five-year Review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (The NPT Review) failed to reach a consensus on a final statement this past Friday. The terms of the Review
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Featured Image: Korean Peace Memorial By John Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. 27 July marked the anniversary of the 1953 Armistice ending the fighting in Korea. A peace treaty was to follow, but such a formal peace agreement has
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Featured Image: Photo by Stewart Munro on Unsplash. On Tuesday, 23 April 2019; the United Nations Security Council voted for resolution N° 2467; concerning the use of rape as a weapon in times of armed conflict. This resolution builds on an earlier resolution of 24 June
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