Seychelles: Small Nation where Big Powers Compete
Victoria, Seychelles —It has been 18 months since the United States reopened its embassy in Victoria, Seychelles, 27 years after Washington left the island nation. Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands strategically located in the Indian Ocean at the confluence of Africa, South Asia and the Gulf states. The small African country is not […]
TikTok’s US Reprieve Comes as Other countries Limit Social Media Use
Singapore —TikTok’s short-lived shutdown in the United States has opened a wider debate in other countries regarding access to popular social media platforms by children. TikTok went dark temporarily Sunday in the U.S. after a new law banning it went into effect. The law required TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance to sell the app’s U.S. […]
The Perils of Isolationism
By Condoleezza Rice The World Still Needs America—and America Still Needs the World In times of uncertainty, people reach for historical analogies. After 9/11, George W. Bush administration officials invoked Pearl Harbor as a standard comparison in processing the intelligence failure that led to the attack. Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to Imperial Japan’s […]
China’s Daring Espionage Activities In The United States Exposed
A high-ranking spy official spills China’s infiltration ploy over the past years within the United States. In a shocking series of events, the U.S. government has uncovered China’s plot employed to penetrate their society. In February, a Chinese spy balloon was found drifting through Southern California airspace before being shot down by a fighter jet. […]