Category: Asia
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: The Largest Regional Trade Deal Ever Signed
Asia-pacific countries have recently formed the largest trading bloc in the world, constituting a total of 2.2 billion people with a combined GDP of $26.2 trillion. The Trade deal named
Read MoreContinued Poking: The Next Chapter in the Border Conflict between India and China
On the 29th of May 2020, an article was published on the Checks & Balances website showing a narrative of the border conflict between India and the People’s Republic of
Read MoreHong Kong Protests: Still Defiant a Year Later
Almost a year ago, protests against a Chinese bill allowing criminal suspects to be extradited from the Hong Kong territory to Chinese territory escalated, leading to a period of political
Read MoreTwo Bears Poking Each Other: About the Border Conflict between India and China
Amidst a global pandemic, the threat of conflict has risen on the Asian continent. Since the beginning of May, soldiers from the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of
Read MoreSino-African Relations: How COVID-19 Ignited an Unexpected Diplomatic Crisis
The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused fissures in relations between states across the international community. From President Trump’s attempt to purchase the German company CureVac to produce vaccines exclusively for
Read MoreStill Fired Up: North Korea Continues Missile Testing in Trying Times
In a time where both the politicians and the public’s attention are focused on the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on everyday life now and in the foreseeable future, it
Read MoreCoronavirus: More Prepared than Panic-Stricken
Recent news has been full of developments of the coronavirus, whether that be new policies by the Chinese government to contain it or the spread of cases found in other
Read MoreThe Gambia v Myanmar: The Case of the Decade & the Plight of the Rohingya
On 10 December 2019, a strikingly paradoxical scene unfolded in The Hague, as Nobel Peace Prize laureate and revered human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the International
Read MoreA Decade of Disappointment: MENA’s Arab Winter Likely to Persist Well into the 2020s
Predicting the future of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a herculean task. The area’s heterogeneity, often underestimated by generalisations that the term ‘Arab World’ evokes, is
Read MoreThe Quest to Free Prometheus: Is China involved in Organ Harvesting?
On Tuesday the 24th of June, a counsel to the China Tribunal, an independent panel investigating if the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been involved in ‘organ harvesting’, called
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