In the largest leak ever to come out of Beijing, 400 pages of classified government documents were leaked to Western media sources. These documents provide an unprecedented look into the Chinese …
Turkey’s invasion of Syria: A democratic crisis
Ras al-Ayn bombing on October 10, 2019. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When United States President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of American troops in northern Syria in October, chaos and …
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The Trump of the Tropics
How Bolsonaro takes Trump's extremes to the extreme On the rise of a certain president, Brian Winter, editor in Chief of Americas Quarterly, remarks that, in a politically divisive election …
In the Philippines, the biggest threat to press freedom is Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Ten years ago, on November 23, 2009, 58 people—32 of them journalists—were brutally killed in the sleepy and impoverished town …
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Japan’s Democracy under Abe: National Security over Civil Liberties?
Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press, and all other forms of expression are guaranteed. No censorship shall be maintained nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be …
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South Korea’s Kind of Populism
“The sovereignty of the Republic of Korea shall reside in the people and the authority shall emanate from the people.”-Section 2, Article 1, Chapter 1, Constitution of the Republic of …