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How to Increase “Maximum Pressure” on North Korea By Reconsidering Options at Sea

18th December 2018

18 Dec How to Increase “Maximum Pressure” on North Korea By Reconsidering Options at Sea 18.12.18 | Introduction The U.S.–North Korea High Level Meeting scheduled for November 8, 2018 was suddenly postponed. Although the reason for the suspension was unclear,...

The AU Invokes the Doctrine of Specially-Affected States in Chagos Island

18th December 2018

This article, then, is not simply a critique of the Global North’s self-interested construction of the doctrine of specially-affected states. More fundamentally, it is a cri de cœur to the Global South to resist the Global North’s attempts to conceal...

Forced Labor Revealed at Xinjiang Camps

18th December 2018

Beijing’s approach to its network of “re-education” camps in Xinjiang—which have detained between 800,000 and two million Turkic Muslims—has shifted from outright denial, to claims of improving social stability, employability, and cultural integration for “poverty-ridden” residents, to ultimately providing legal...

Minitrue: Approved Sources on 1989 Spokesman’s Death

17th December 2018

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All websites: on the death of Yuan Mu, only republish...