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Europe’s Syrian Slumber

World
Read: The Syrian Conflict 10 Years On: Who is in Control and What are the Possible Scenarios?European countries, along with the United States, and a long list of Arab countries, are unable to solve the huge humanitarian crisis in Syria, and some would rather revert to the pre 2011 revolution status quo.

Taiwan amidst the Emerging China – US Cold War

World
Read: Will the United States Contain Russia or China, or Both?The combined effects of these developments has been to arouse CCP fears of an increase in pro-independence sentiment in the island that has already been increasing in recent years due to a younger Taiwanese demographic that has little emotional connection to the mainland, as well as growing international scrutiny of the mainland’s human rights abuses, and Beijing’s reneging on its promises to respect Hong Kong’s autonomy as part of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ model.

Apology and Acknowledgement: Algerians Recall France’s Colonial History

Opinion
All these decisions contradict the image built by Macron during his visit to Algeria as part of his electoral campaign in February 2017, in which he admitted that the French colonization of Algeria witnessed crimes against humanity and stressed his keenness to find a consensual formula that would meet Algerian expectations and hasten the signing of the friendship treaty between Algeria and France, which has been delayed for decades.

What Is the Impact of the Polish Constitutional Court Ruling on the European Union?

World
There is a serious danger of double standards: why would Poland need to be punished and not Romania, which was condemned  by the European Court of Human Rights over the firing of the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate? That’s not to say that there is no problem with the rule of law in Poland, of course, but to let other democracies be the judge of that is a risky game.