Diplomacy
Is China a Democracy?
One of the hardest – and perhaps most controversial definitions in political literature today is democracy. What is democracy? Who decides what is democratic? Is there a universal…
Development Assistance
Restructuring the AGOA Partnership: Lessons from China
I’m I a little late to the party? It seems all the experts have already weighed in on the recent move by the Biden administration to exclude Uganda…
Foreign Policy Analysis
Why U.S’ Democracy Summit Will Not Deliver
Why U.S’ Democracy Summit Will Not Deliver With the U.S positioning itself as chair of “saints,” it even cherry picked who should get a seat at table during…
Global Focus
President Xi and Biden Meeting Tomorrow: What Are the Issues and Should We Expect News?
After meeting his Russian counterpart in Geneva, in June this year, U.S president Joe Biden told journalists that there are no secret codes to foreign policy. President Putin on…
Foreign Policy Analysis
The Miami-Haiti Connection: Another mercenary, another day.
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos Emerging details suggest that President Moïse’s assassins were Colombians hired by a security firm in Florida. Sound familiar? This weekend we found out that…
Diplomacy
Joe Biden can display a new diplomacy-first US foreign policy by re-engaging Cuba
Five years ago, I stood in a mostly Cuban crowd outside of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, excitedly watching our flag raised for the first time in…
Diplomacy
U.S. Violated Trade Rules With Tariffs on China, World Trade Organization Says.
By Bryce Baschuk, Bloomberg. The World Trade Organization undercut the main justification for President Donald Trump’s trade war against China, saying that American tariffs on Chinese goods violate…
Diplomacy
It’s time to end senseless, endless sanctions.
By George A. Lopez Thirty years ago this week the United Nations Security Council responded to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait with mandatory, comprehensive economic sanctions. By 2000 the…
Diplomacy
U.S – UK Huawei Ban: Tecnationalism or a Looming New Tech Cold War?
After several months of U.S’ campaign against Chinese telecom giant Huawei claiming the move was due to security concerns, United Kingdom (UK) gave in to Washington’s fear-mongering as…