Tag: Kang Jie
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Evaluating Allies: What makes a good partner
With the Trump-Brexit and coronavirus-accelerated reshuffling of global order, recent reexaminations and reimaginings of global alliance have been rife. Questions of new sets of alliances, alignments and understandings are now common, whether it be Macron’s suggestions of a new European-Russian reset or renewed talks around whether the Quad could actually be a functional China-containment coalition.…
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To Boldly Go: the Geopolitics of Space Colonization
Space travel. The stuff of dreams, fantasy, and hope. But what would the consequences be when we start colonising the stars?
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Seven days to the Rhine: the sustained degradation of NATO and European defence
An analysis on NATO’s past, present and future
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Shaky Citadel: Taiwan’s Struggle for Survival
A disclaimer: Taiwan and the Republic of China are used interchangeably to simplify nomenclature. No political position is intended by the use of either term. A Brief History of Taiwan Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China (ROC), attained its current state in 1949 after the Kuomintang (国民党), or the Nationalists, under the command…
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Europa Universalis IV: Mechanics and Sources of Political Development
Europa Universalis has a long and storied history among grand strategy gamers. In it, you take a country of your choosing from 1444 to 1821, building it from whatever condition you find it in, to whatever you choose: A mighty Empire, a Merchant Republic, or anything in between. For such a long historical timespan, there…
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