Civil Society and the Question of Palestine - NGO Action News – 3 December 2020
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The ongoing India-China face-off in Eastern Ladakh may appear to be a small-scale confrontation between conventional forces. But it is still one between nuclear-armed states, and the threat of escalation cannot be denied. In its wake, India has carried out a series of missile tests, while China too has fired a number of ballistic missiles near the Paracel and Spratly Islands, apparently to warn the US, but hardly something New Delhi can ignore. This analysis makes three key points: the threat from China is likely to persist; India needs to adapt balancing responses to the threat to the requirements of a nuclear weapons environment; and Indian policymakers should be mindful of the possibilities of actual military combat, be it a marginal war, or a trans-domain conflict that involves use of advanced technologies influencing both the nuclear and conventional spheres.
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Summary: In an extraordinary year, the coronavirus pandemic did not deter protesters around the worldâdespite restrictions on protest rights and the danger of gathering in groups.
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The year 2020 highlighted the resilience of protests around the globe. Despite the greatest public health challenge in over a century and the viral threat, lockdowns, and increasingly repressive environment it triggered protests remained an integral part of the global political landscape.
In early 2020, when little was known about the virus and it seemed like a localized problem, the protest surge that had marked the second half of 2019 continued. Huge demonstrations kept roiling politics in places as diverse as Chile, Hong Kong, and Lebanon, and new, shorter protests like those over the downing of an airline
Doyle McManus: Biden was left with a mess in Iran. Can he get out of it? [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MCMANUS-COLUMN:LA]
Joe Biden is going to have a lot of complicated issues competing for his attention when he takes office next month. Among the thorniest is Iran.
During his presidential campaign, Biden promised to revive President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with the Tehran regime. That’s the one President Donald Trump denounced as toothless and abandoned in 2018.
Since then, Trump has imposed ever more punishing economic sanctions on Iran, but they haven’t caused Iran to bend to his will. Instead, the Tehran regime has retaliated by breaking the nuclear limits; Iran now holds 12 times as much low-enriched uranium as the agreement would have allowed.