Journal on World Affairs, UCLA
While the ban was reversed the following week due to modifications in the proposed media legislation, Facebookâs ban highlights the powerful role that Big Tech plays in regulating online content and choosing what information gets to be viewed by its users.
Solving this conundrum will be the key for the successful implementation of a new âpivot to Asiaâ by the new Administration.
In response to the assassinations, Iran sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council calling the American operation a terrorist attack … By June of 2020, Iran had issued their own arrest warrant for Trump.
Australiaâs desire to exhibit international leadership has run counter to Sino-Australian peace. In April 2020 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison led the calls for a World Health Organization investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in China, prompting a freeze on diplomatic relations which has endured throughout 2020 into 2021.
Putinâs sudden and surprising declaration of greater diplomacy between the U.S. and Russia â two states with soured relations since the Cold War â arrives amidst heightened accusations of interference with U.S. elections by Moscow.
However, with the high probability of a divided Congress in the next years, a continuation of this traditional divide over the role of the state will only make voters and lawmakers drift further apart and sabotage any concrete policies proposed by the future Biden Administration.
In the third week of September, the relationship between Iran and the United States has reached the headlines again. It began on September 14th, when President Trump tweeted about an alleged assasination attempt plotted by Iran. He went on to explain that any attack from Iran will be met with strong retaliation from the United States.
Disinformation is something we will have to accept and grapple with for some time. âWe will have to be creative in how we handle it for the foreseeable future because what is a strength is also often a vulnerability,â Dr. Hill says
Though Americaâs nuclear arsenal and second strike capabilities are arguably the most powerful in the world, recent actions by China have left Washington worried. The Pentagonâs report on Chinaâs growing military power, which now surpasses the United States in the fields of ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, is a somber reminder that the world has entered into a second nuclear age.
America is considering a defense pivot in Europe, which President Donald Trump claims to be in accordance to Russian threats and Germanyâs failures to meet their NATO financial obligations. In January, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said America will begin this shift by withdrawing about twelve thousand of the thirty-six thousand American troops from Germany.
Journal on World Affairs, UCLA