By Grayson Shaw (PO’ 25) Last weekend, thousands of protestors flooded the streets of Washington D.C. calling on President Biden to act, a sight that Americans have seen nearly every day on the news since election day. However, this protest was not about Medicare for All, Black Lives Matter, or the ongoing climate crisis. The demonstrations surrounded the ongoing conflict in the Tigray...
By Grayson Shaw PO ’25 On Wednesday, September 15th, the United States announced the sale of nuclear submarines to the Australian government in order to advance their deterrent capabilities against Chinese influence in the Pacific. Complicating these matters, Australia had previously negotiated a deal with France over the sale of standard submarines, and the US had not communicated this...
By Sasha Rothstein (HMC ’23) Over the past two-and-a-half months, America’s 100 million active TikTok users have been launched into the deep end of fraught US-China relations. Citing national security concerns over the Chinese-owned app, the Trump administration issued multiple executive orders to ban TikTok in the absence of an acquisition by an American company. While temporarily...
By: Liz Johnson (PO ’24)One of the most heavily militarized zones in the world is the Taiwan Strait, a 110-mile wide strait that separates China and Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its own. In 1954, both Taiwan and China tacitly agreed to recognize and not cross this median line, since then it has served as an unofficial border between the two. Before 2020, this median...
Guest Contributors Anubhav Das and Winy Daigavane, National University of Advanced Legal Studies In January 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was reported. In the five months since, it has spread all over the world. Around the world, public health officials have enacted stringent measures to mitigate the impact of the virus. However, deaths continue to be on the rise, and countries face...
By: Andy Liu (HMC ’23) Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, nations across the world have rapidly intervened to contain the virus’ spread. Much has been made of the different approaches that the world’s developed nations have taken toward containing COVID-19; whether it’s the United States’ federal approach, with individual states having their own containment strategies, South...
By Christopher Tan (PZ ‘21) Crippled by US sanctions, embroiled in political unrest and rattled by the death of its most important general; the last few months have tested Iran’s hardline leadership. Yet, through tight control of the media, vote-rigging and revolutionary zest; Tehran has quelled whatever threats these posed to its regime. As the country grapples with the coronavirus’ spread, Iran...
By Shuyan Yan (PO ’23) On Feb.7th, Chinese social media saw a massive outpouring of outrage and grief due to the death of Doctor Li Wenliang from coronavirus. Li Wenliang was one of the eight people who first revealed the information about several mysterious pneumonia cases in Wuhan. However, like the other seven, he was soon reprimanded by Wuhan Police for rumor-mongering. The police asked...
Arletta Gorecka (PhD Candidate, University of Strathclyde) Van Gend en Loos (1963), in its famous passage, claimed that EU constitutional law “constitutes a new legal order of international law for the benefit of which the states have limited their sovereign rights, albeit within limited fields, and the subjects of which comprise not only EU member states but also their nationals.” [1] The...
By Andy Liu (HMC ’23) The European Union has a reputation for stringent data rights regulations, with the 2018 passing of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) further strengthening personal data rights and data protection across member states. However, a recent ruling in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a case between Google and CNIL, a French privacy regulator, relaxed...
