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Disunited Democracies Cannot Face the Challenge of China
The United States and its allies must agree on an approach to China with a clarity of purpose, resolve, and restraint. Because the China challenge will only grow over time. After China violated Hong Kong’s legislative autonomy by imposing a new security law on the territory, the United States and its traditional allies did something
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The Rohingya Genocide Is Far from Just a Dispute between The Gambia and Myanmar: Time for Canada to Join
- Analysis
- June 3, 2020
While the Rohingya continue to endure an ongoing genocide both inside and outside their homeland, several international legal mechanisms churn slowly in parallel. The last two weeks have seen moments of progress. First, an Argentinian court decided to consider an international criminal law action against Myanmar’s State Counsellor and some Generals. Then the UN’s International
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Self-Determination at a Turning Point: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Indigenous Nations of Formosa
- Analysis
- June 2, 2020
May 2020 was a turning point in East Asia. President Tsai Ing-wen (Democratic Progressive Party, DPP) was inaugurated to her second term as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Two days later, China’s National People’s Congress proposed legislation authorizing Chinese public security agents to operate in Hong Kong. The new laws would also target
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Withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty Is a Short-Sighted Mistake
- Analysis
- May 27, 2020
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty is motivated by a desire to play to the ideology of his political base at home, not by any reasonable national security rationale. This is ironic, given that the greatest champions of Open Skies within the US have, historically, been Republicans. The Treaty allows its
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