May 13, 2024 · In a rare display, North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong-un shed tears when discussing his country’s declining birth rate in December 2023. It was the first time that North Korea had publicly acknowledged population decline to be a problem. Kim chose to put the onus on mothers to prevent “the birth rate from falling” and to nurture children. This month, North Korea promoted a maternity ...

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Sep 2, 2024 · Great power competition between the United States and China centres on technological supremacy. This extends beyond future-defining technologies such as high-end chip manufacturing, advanced AI, and quantum computing to include the supply chains underpinning these technologies, particularly critical minerals.. As the clean energy transition accelerates, critical minerals such as cobalt ...

Feb 7, 2022 · Political parties serve as candidate-centric, non-ideological alliances. While they have names that describe them as “nationalist”, “democratic”, and “liberal”, the various Philippine political parties are far from being ideological organisations.

Dec 30, 2024 · As president, Carter made considerable headway in advancing this agenda. He elevated human rights as a key foreign policy concern, pressuring governments throughout the world, especially in Latin America, to release political prisoners and allow greater civic freedom.

Nov 25, 2024 · Donald Trump’s upcoming engagement with China and India will be one of the key determinants of Asian affairs. While Beijing and New Delhi are emerging great powers, their bilateral ties are not immune to Washington’s geopolitical calculations.

More than three years after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the rights of women and girls have plummeted in the country. While the international community has watched the dire situation unfold with a sense of powerlessness, women have been banned from attending school, talking in public, and even singing.

Aug 3, 2023 · For decades, the United States has been considered the global hegemon. However, BRICS nations now account for more than 40 per cent of the world’s population and have an aggregated global GDP of 31.5 per cent. This surpasses the G7’s (United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom) GDP of 30.7 per cent.

Jan 14, 2025 · Acquiring Greenland would now appear to be a foreign policy priority for the incoming Trump administration. Reviving his 2019 proposal for a US takeover of the territory, an idea thought to have been shelved following his 2020 election loss, Trump last week made his ambition for Greenland plain.. Greenland is part of Denmark and a …

Dec 4, 2024 · The marital law gamble by South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol backfired spectacularly. Yet the extraordinary events of an unusually cold winter’s night – which saw an evidently well-prepared military attempt to stop all political activities and control the media – underscored the awkward nature of Korea’s democratisation process.