There has been plenty of contentious debate over competing claims about the South China Sea (SCS), from the repercussions of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling against China in 2016 to the ...
How does overpopulation change a country? Though China and the United States have similar land surface areas of 3.6 million square miles and 3.5 million square miles, respectively, the two global ...
Even though scientists knew how to extract the alkaloid cocaine from the leaf, the indigenous communities in the Andean countries were the main group cultivating the plant. As the 20th century ...
As part of his Indo-Pacific strategy, President Donald Trump signed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act and the Taiwan Assurance Act in December 2020. The purpose of the acts became clear in January ...
It’s a tale as old as Canada itself: contested First Nations land rights, a lucrative land development, escalating tensions leading to excessive force and damaged relations. For those who know of the ...
The United States government labels them HIDDEN COBRA. In 2013, the South Korean financial system fell victim to a mysterious “WhoIs Team.” The attackers behind the Sony Pictures hack called ...
“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” A greater number of migrants in Chiapas means more revenue for DTOs, more strain on the state’s resources, and more scrutiny from the ...
Daryl Davis is a jazz musician who engages directly with members of the Ku Klux Klan to broaden their worldviews. He has directly inspired over 200 Klansmen to leave the organization, and dismantled ...
Ecuador is hoping that a boom in the tourism industry will continue to serve as a pathway to a stronger economy, but could the plan be too ambitious? As the lower income Ecuadorians begin to prosper, ...
A leader in exile. Children forced into cultural assimilation. A barrage of failed protests. For more than 50 years, China, a global superpower with a population over 400 times that of Tibet, has ...
How has the tiny, oft forgotten nation achieved this milestone of carbon neutrality and rapidly implemented such a wide variety of sustainability-focused policies, while other countries still struggle ...
If one were to classify the employment process in the UAE as modern slavery, recruitment fees would serve as the first step towards enslavement. Even before arriving in the UAE, migrant workers find ...