“The Chinese government has paralyzed the U.N.’s systems,” ... “The U.N.’s mission is to protect refugees, but they have been deported back despite all the guarantees given by the UNHCR and other agencies.”
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#Myanmar 🇲🇲 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of 01/12/2024. In the past month the resistance made some limited gains across the country, seizing ground in #Kachin, #Chin and #Rakhine states.
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I Am Not A Virus (Pandemic Time), 2021, 40˝ H x 30˝ W, acrylic with used objects, by Ann Phong. Artist’s caption: The events of 2020, particularly the pandemic and the rise in Anti-Asian hate incidents, have prompted me to reconsider America’s multicultural identity, revealing underlying inequalities and injustices in our society. https://annphongart.com.
Announcing JVS 19(3-4), a double issue and the last JVS of 2024.
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The Political Economy of Australian Militarism:
On the Emergent Military–Industrial–Academic
Complex
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Breaking: Lithuania has declared three staff members of #China’s diplomatic mission persona non grata and handed a diplomatic note to Beijing.
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A unilateral US withdrawal from the IPEF would be a serious mistake.
I have an issue. Or, more specifically, this article I published together with Linus Hagström now has an issue! It is now out (open access) in the latest issue of European Political Science.
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Japanese carmakers losing out to Chinese ones
Taiwan's foreign minister Lin Chia-lung visited Warsaw and Łódź, Poland with a delegation of 40 entrepreneurs incl. Foxconn VP, signaling a recalibration of Taipei's approach to Europe from #symbolism to #substance; this time, Lin is emphasizing business deals over "like-mindedness."
How does a quiet Cambodian seaside town known mostly as a backpacker destination turn into a notorious haven for online scam operations? In this essay in the Global China Pulse journal, @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social looks back at the history of Sihanoukville over the decades. With photos by Roun Ry.
Japan, and the US) to organize a joint international conference on cyber capacity building. However, their importance may diminish in the coming years due to the US President-elect's preference for bilateral rather than multilateral forms of cooperation.
Of course, there are also multilateral initiatives that the Philippines has joined in recent years, such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), the US–Japan–Philippines trilateral format, the Squad (together with Australia, Japan, and the US), or cooperation with the Quad (Australia, India,
develop a new economic model that would allow it to base its security primarily on its own capabilities. Achieving this would require undertaking profound structural reforms - similar to those implemented in the past by other regional countries, such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Manila also plans to sign a VFA with France and MoUs on defense cooperation with Vietnam and Germany.
On the other hand, the Philippines faces significant internal challenges, such as strong political polarization and the pressing need to
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The Philippines has already signed VFAs with both the US and Australia. Additionally, in 2024, Manila signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defense cooperation with Canada (which Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro indicated could later be upgraded to a VFA), the UK, and Singapore.
a $35 billion, 10-year military modernization program—the largest in its history—aimed at strengthening the Philippines' military capabilities in the South China Sea. In July 2024, Manila and Tokyo signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement, a pact structurally similar to a Visiting Forces Agreement.
Manila’s special ties with Taipei. Additionally, in early 2023, the Philippines and the US expanded the EDCA (originally signed in 2014), granting Washington access to four new military bases: three in northern Luzon and one on Balabac Island. In January 2024, Manila announced 'Re-Horizon 3',
Exactly. On the one hand, after Bongbong Marcos came to power in mid-2022, the Philippines made a strategic shift toward co-creating a US-based Indo-Pacific security system. In August 2023, the National Security Council published the 'National Security Policy for 2023-2028', which emphasized
New from @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social in the Lowy Institute Interpreter for Blue Security | Why the Philippines made a dramatic turnaround on the question of archipelagos in the law of the sea www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
I made a starter pack for people interested in Chinese politics, economy and foreign policy!
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China says Philippines sent supplies to beached warship on Second Thomas Shoal in South China Sea – Reuters: ‘In a separate statement, the Phlippine Coast Guard said it had rotated personnel staffing the Sierra Madre and sent supplies to the vessel.’
