Earlier this year, the 26th Conference of the Parties climate summit (COP26), initially scheduled to take place in November 2020, was postponed until early 2021 in an announcement made by the UNFCCC COP Bureau. On May 28th, a request by the United Kingdom to reschedule the conference to November 1-12, […]
On Friday, May 22, the National People’s Congress (NPC) in China bypassed local legislature and revealed plans for a new national security and anti-sedition law in Hong Kong. The South China Morning Post explains that this law would “ban secessionist and subversive activity as well as foreign interference and terrorism” […]
Latest Developments Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel on May 13th for a brief eight hour visit. Despite Israel’s strict lockdown, Pompeo met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new governing partner, Benjamin Gantz to discuss President Trump’s Peace to Prosperity […]
