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Gosling: Navigating the Three Seas Initiative
March 24, 2021
The Three Seas Initiative (3SI), a partnership to develop infrastructure across Central and Eastern European (CEE), recently came to the attention of the U.S. House of Representatives, who passed a bipartisan resolution in support of the initiative which seeks to fill in the missing links in the region’s transport, energy and digital infrastructure, and is being met with mixed reactions abroad.
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France24: Western Nations Sanction China Over Rights Abuses
March 24, 2021
In what is the first such coordinated Western action against Beijing under President Joe Biden, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang which sparked quick retribution from China.
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HRW: China’s ‘Slanders and Smears’ at UN Human Rights Council
March 17, 2021
Human Rights Watch reports that at a recent UN Human Rights Council meeting, The Chinese, when confronted on issues ranging from Hong Kong to Xinjiang, became aggressive, preferring to attack the confronters instead of aiming for collaboration to improve the situation.
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UK Declares Push for New, ‘Open’ and Democratic World Order
March 17, 2021
Boris Johnson’s government has declared the the UK will help shape a new global order and leave behind an “outdated” international system, outlining how post-Brexit Britain will seek to build strategic and commercial alliances away from Europe, especially in the Indo-Pacific region.
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HRW: Navalny Persecution Just the Tip of the Russian Crackdown
March 17, 2021
Human Rights Watch investigates a political struggle underway in Russia of which Navalny is only the most visible part, highlighting the struggle for anyone who has expressed public discontent with the Kremlin’s rule, which imposes a wide array of penalties to prevent people from airing grievances.
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