Uttalanden från USA:s president Joe Biden har förändrat förhållandet mellan USA, Kina och Taiwan. Hur ställer sig USA i händelse av en kinesisk invasion av Taiwan? Under en intervju med det amerikanska nyhetsbolaget CBS i september förra året fick USA:s president, Joe Biden, frågan om USA kommer att försvara Taiwan…
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The 24th of February 2022 was without a doubt a watershed moment in modern history. As always, the Germans have a fitting word to describe the situation: Zeitenwende (meaning approx. turning point in time). Only three days after the invasion of Ukraine, German chancellor Olaf Scholz used the expression Zeitenwende…
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Earlier this year, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) went on a regional tour in the South Pacific hoping to secure a multilateral trade and security deal. Although Wang Yi (王毅) was unable to seal the grand deal, numerous bilateral agreements were signed between China and the island nations, and…
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Imagine if we could reach consensus on polarised issues like abortion or climate change, which for years politicians have largely failed to adddress, by randomly picking ordinary people to discuss them together – sounds like a naïve utopia, right?…
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The last decade has seen Eastern Europeans further integrating in the Union, mutually growing their economies and enjoying free movement across borders. Although beneficial for developing markets and civil rights, liberal values have often been met by major identitarian pushes, bringing discussions of sovereignty back on centre stage.…
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After turning off the TV, I sit on the couch and stare into the wall for at least ten minutes. It is the end of the documentary Seaspiracy that has silenced me, unsure how to grasp what I just saw.…
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Despite its name, the Caspian Sea is often referred to as the world’s largest lake. The Caspian Sea, however, is not a typical lake. For one, it is enormous (with a surface of 374 000 km², it outsizes Germany), and it has been referred to as a sea since antiquity.…
Read MoreLast year in May, the British TV channel ITV News caught an unusual scene on Jersey Island, close to Normandy’s coasts in France. A clip shared on Twitter showed a member of the Jersey Militia reenactment group firing a musket in the direction of French fishing boats blocking the Island.…
Read MoreMayhem broke out as YouTube deleted two German-speaking Russia Today (RT) channels following an earlier suspension of another German Russia Today channel. From this came talk of alleged censorship and the suppression of press freedom. …
Read MoreHow cyber and electronic warfare can be used to trick your signals By Sakari Teerekoski Our digital infrastructure is increasingly dependent on space-based assets. Communication satellites provide internet coverage and decent bandwidth to places that are unreachable with ground-based systems. With 5G and the Internet of Things, we utilize them…
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