In recent months, South Korea has faced the fallout from an attempted coup that sought to impose martial law, reminiscent of its past struggles with […]
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The Political Parties of China: Governing Democracy and the Role of the CPC
China’s political landscape is often oversimplified, viewed through a binary lens of autocracy versus democracy. However, the truth is far more complex. At the heart […]
Political Parties in the DPRK: Structure and Function
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea, is a nation often perceived through a simplistic lens of isolationism and authoritarianism. […]
Is North Korea sending troops to Ukraine?
Recently I have been bombarded with messages telling me not just that North Korea are sending their army to Ukraine, but that it would speed […]
Occupied Nation: How the CIA Created Modern Germany
On February 4th, The Economist published a devastating analysis—or perhaps, “pre-mortem”—on the collapse of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under Olaf Scholz’s stewardship. Elected […]
U.S. Influence Operation: Taiwanese Students Guided or Gaslit at the American Institute of Taiwan’s Annual Policy Speech…
Foregoing the usual media press conference, AIT’s annual foreign policy speech was presented to Taiwanese university students… easier to sway than the press, perhaps? Instead […]
Taiwan’s Election Dilemma
Taiwan needs to be forewarned of putting too many eggs into the USA basket as a significant body of evidence proves that doing so, will […]
When the out-of-touch political elite bites the hand that feeds its voters: The Darwin Port case
It was OK with ASIO, the Defense Department, the Treasury Minister of the day (Scott Morrison) and it was definitely OK with the Northern Territory […]
Why Korea Must Not Be Reunified
Forces and motives behind the never-ending Korean War and the division of the Korean peninsula. And a silver lining on the horizon. An Assessment of […]
The Crisis of Identity in the Republic of Socotra
There are few places as ecologically diverse and other-worldly as the Yemeni island of Socotra, hence its nickname as the “most alien place on earth”. […]