No matter what China’s recent naval drills in the Tasman Sea were meant to provoke, the result has mainly been a lot of often vacuous discussion as to whether or not Australia should feel provoked. There has been a huge diversity in the coverage, from rather sensible-sounding reflections on adopting some kind of diplomatic stoicism,…
On the 24th of February last year, Russia relaunched its invasion of Ukraine (which originally started on the 20th of February 2014), and apart from a parody of Putin’s irredentist essay, I haven’t done much to make fun of Putin. So let’s look at some of the worst-aged quotes to recently turn a year old….
Everybody’s talking about the current French elections, but as far as I can see, no one is talking about the effect these elections could have on the Andorran monarchy. The President of France, whomever it is, automatically becomes a coprince of Andorra; a landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees, situated between Spain and France. The coprince…
À la lumière de l’invasion de l’Ukraine par Poutine, certains d’entre vous se demandent peut-être ce que vous pouvez faire pour aider l’Ukraine en ce moment crucial. Il est facile de se sentir impuissant lorsque ce conflit se passe si loin de vous, mais vous pouvez aider. Voici quelques façons d’y parvenir : – Faire un…
In light of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, some of you might be wondering what you can do to help Ukraine in this vital moment. It’s easy to feel helpless when this conflict is happening so far away, but you can help. Here are some ways to do just that: -Donate: You can do what our…
I recently watched one of the oddest ads I’ve ever been shown. I was about to watch a video, and this really peculiar and completely unrelated ad popped up: it was published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and was talking about the name of the Sea of Japan. The video first makes…
The war in Ukraine is a really fascinating and convoluted situation that doesn’t get much coverage, yet whose result could have huge effects on modern EU-Russia relations. I reached out to Reece Lynch to find out more. Reece Lynch has been reporting on the situation in Ukraine on Youtube since 2019. He is currently working…
The Nord Stream 2 project is an under-construction gas pipeline that would go from Russia to Germany which has been the subject of a lot of controversy recently. So let’s look a bit deeper into it. Nord Stream 2 is an expansion of the original Nord Stream gas line, creating two additional pipelines along the…
The hijacking of a passenger plane by Belarus is a huge threat to international aviation, being as it is a hijacking perpetrated by the state itself. In doing this Belarus broke multiple International Civil Aviation Organisation Treaties guaranteeing the free passage and neutrality of airspace, possibly broke the European Convention on Human Rights (they never…
Today the EU and Japan signed the “EU-Japan Green Alliance” during the 27th EU-Japan summit, which also occurred today. So what’s happened? Firstly, European Council President, Charles Michel and European Commision President, Ursula Von der Leyen represented the EU at this summit while Japan was represented by their PM Yoshihide Suga. What did they discuss…
The South China Sea has the three most important seafaring routes of East Asia and carries about one third of global shipping or $5.3 trillion annually. Almost everything going from or to the numerous nations in the region needs to go through the South China Sea. It controls access to the Strait of Malacca, among…