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Soldiers take part in a military parade in the capital Naypyidaw in 2019
Myanmar has witnessed widespread anti-coup protests this week where public anger at the military for toppling a democratically elected civilian government is on full display. On Wednesday, young protesters in the nation s largest city Yangon held a mock funeral for the army chief Min Aung Hlaing.
The Tatmadaw, as the military is known in Myanmar, is both omnipresent and impalpable. It is omnipresent because it dominates not only the political landscape but also the country s economy. It is impalpable because the military functions like a state within a state, Marco Bünte, political analyst and Myanmar expert at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, told DW.
Passing the Coast Guard Law, China ‘probes’ the new US administration Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
05/02/2021 13:00 GMT+7
China’s Coast Guard Law took effect only two days after Mr. Biden took office as US President.
According to the Chinese media, the Standing Committee of the National People s Congress, the highest legislative body in China, passed the Coast Guard Law on January 22. The law came into effect on February 1, 2021.
Accordingly, the Chinese Coast Guard is allowed to use all necessary means to block or avoid threats from foreign ships. The law specifies the conditions under which weapons, such as firearms, ship-mounted weapons, or aircraft weapons, can be used.
Filling Gaps in International Law
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The 2020 “Strategic Survey” recently published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) includes an essay, to which we contributed, entitled “Key International Legal Gaps: What Are They, and How Can They Be Closed?” The essay discusses gaps in five areas relating to international security use of force by states, operations against non-state actors, refugee protection, cybersecurity, and competition and conflict in outer space and suggests ways to address them. In introducing the essay, IISS Director-General John Chipman noted that “legal diplomacy should be conducted to embed carefully considered principles of international law and such diplomacy is needed across a number of fronts. … [The] legal environment cannot be allowed to ossify so much that