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Britain: the newest â€˜Pacific Island' paradise?

Dorothy Grace Guerrero — 2018-08-16T09:50:27Z

In a somewhat surreal twist, in what is already an increasingly surreal global landscape, UK trade minister Liam Fox announced on Wednesday, 18 July, that the government will do a public consultation on whether the UK should seek to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) once the UK leaves the European Union next March.

- IV523 - August 2018 / Britain

A reign of terror: Extra-judicial killings in Duterte's Philippines

Dorothy Grace Guerrero — 2018-04-07T17:39:55Z

Since Rodrigo Duterte began his term as the 16th president of the Philippines in 30 June 2016, Filipinos and the international community have watched in horror at accounts of dead bodies found nightly in the country's streets, linked to extra-judicial killings (EJKs). What is more appalling is that the police force, supposed to protect and serve people, are themselves involved in or directly doing the killings. Those familiar with the Philippine's recent history, especially the heroic struggle by anti-dictatorship and democracy movements that toppled the brutal authoritarian rule of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 wonder what is going on in the country.

- IV519 - April 2018 / Philippines

Trump, the Paris Agreement and the breakdown of multilateralism

Dorothy Grace Guerrero — 2017-06-14T10:35:40Z

The problem is not only about Trump's trashing of an already weak climate agreement and process. What just happened is that the lynchpin of the world order is breaking down the world order.

- IV509 - June 2017 / United States (USA), Climate

China is great again, but how is Britain dealing with globalisation's new champion in the age of Brexit?

Dorothy Grace Guerrero — 2017-06-05T09:20:29Z

Politics is always entwined with economics and often produce strange and unforeseen results. With the UK withdrawal of membership from the European Union and Donald Trump's isolationist US policies, it seems they have both relinquished their role as leaders of the globalisation process. On the other hand, in this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Chinese President Xi Jinping strongly defended free trade and urged the world to say “no to protectionism” in his speech addressing the world's elite.

- IV509 - June 2017 / Britain, China