Ensuring Rare Earth Elements for National Security
In August of 2022, President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act enacted some of the largest-ever subsidies and rebates to incentivize the domestic production and c...
Category: Asia
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Analyzing Taiwan’s Readiness and Response to PRC Offensive Cyber Operations
Offensive cyber operations (OCOs) are a critical component of the PLA’s zero-sum “intelligentized” warfare strategy against Taiwan, which the Russian war in Ukr...
Executive Control of Institutions: The Path between Independence against Opacity
In a speech delivered in November, Indian Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, who is tasked with overseeing the judiciary, called the body’s so-called “Collegium” ...
Why a symbolic exchange matters: Signaling in Biden-Xi Summit
On November 14, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden met in person with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in his presidency. This summit, conducte...
The Myth of Indonesia’s Green Energy Revolution: Assessing Indonesia’s Nickel Industry
The convergence of conversations about “loss and damage” for developing economies at COP27 and Indonesia’s decarbonization commitments as host of the G20 summit...
Singapore’s Emergence as the World’s Next Art Capital
Inside the iconic triple towers of the Marina Bay Sands hotel, collectors and creative fanatics alike mingle amidst brightly lit white cubes to admire painting,...
Which Way for the ‘ASEAN Way’: The Myanmar Coup and ASEAN’s Response
The growing crisis between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Myanmar has evolved into a test case as to whether the ‘ASEAN Way’ of non-inte...
Noam Chomsky on protests in Iran, crisis in Haiti, U.S. actions in Taiwan, and more
Considered the father of modern linguistics and one of the most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive s...
Shifts in Shopping Sprees: Bans on Single-Use Plastic Bags in South Korea and the U.S.
Effective on January 1, 2019, South Korea had banned all single-use plastic bags from major supermarkets following a growing number of environmentally conscious...
Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change
In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...