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(This is the second blog post in a series of similar posts on HMS Queen Elizabeth’s maiden voyage to Asia – Click here for the first post the series) Rebirth of Global Britain The UK’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has just set sail on her maiden voyage, meant to reclaim the position of […]

Chloé Zhao’s 2021 Oscar wins were historic. At the ceremony she became the first non-white woman and the second woman ever to win to the award for Best Director, and her film Nomadland was honored as Best Picture. Katheryn Bigelow is the only other woman in history to take home the Oscar for Best Director […]

Amid the invasion of Capitol Hill four months ago, social media giants Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube banned then-President Donald Trump from their platforms, citing repeated violations of the Terms of Service and incitement to violence. The unilateral decisions to de-platform a world leader – long-overdue argued some – sent shockwaves reverberating across the globe, stirring […]

Every ten years the Chinese government dispatches teams of census takers throughout the country to compile data on its population. Accurate information about the people who live in the country is vital for any state, but it is particularly important for the Chinese system with its party-state structure and five-year plan system. Knowing the country’s […]

In the late 1950s China experienced one of history’s most devastating famines when an estimated 35-45 million of its people perished. Since then, China’s population has more than doubled to 1.4 billion in 2020. Not only does the Chinese landmass need to feed twice the people it did in 1950, but rising living standards have […]