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Democracy Wars II: Remarks By President Biden At The Summit For Democracy...
Pix Credit hereI have been chronicling the development of a Chinese Marxist-Leninist democracy counter-narrative to the once virtually unchallenged democracy narratives aligned with liberal democratic...
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Hannah Harris, Justine Nolan: "Outsourcing the enforcement of modern slavery:...
Pix Credit HEREData driven governance is becoming ubiquitous (Backer 2018) and with it the problems central to rule of law based regulatory systems: predictability, clarity, and replicability. Also...
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25. The Principal Contradiction of Hong Kong is the "One Country Two Systems...
“言有尽而意无穷” [Words and meanings are endless]. In the run up to the book launch scheduled for 13 July 2021 (registration required but free HERE), the folks at Little Sir Press have organized a series of...
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中央统战部网站 《互联网宗教信息服务管理办法》公布 (Central United Front Work Department Website...
Pix Credit HEREWith the Vanguard at the center of the nation's life, it ought not to be expected that alternative centers of mass mobilization would continue draw attention. That attention is focused...
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Michael Bohlander: Code Commentaries – A German Technique in Chinese Criminal...
The folks over at the European Chinese Law Research Hub (with thanks to Marianne von Blomberg, Editor ECLR Hub, Research Associate, Chair for Chinese Legal Culture, University of Cologne) have posted...
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Norwegian Pension Fund Global and its Environmental Nudging: Two...
Pix Credit HEREToday, Norges Bank made public its decision to exclude Yunnan Baiyao Group Co Ltd from the GPFG and to place Marfrig Global Foods SA under observation, following recommendations by the...
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Ruminations 100(1) (The year of Olokun): Looking Back on 2021 in Epigrams and...
Eyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander through reflection, I have taken the period...
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Ruminations 100(2) (The Year of Olokun; the Body as Thing and Idea and as...
Pix Credit; Mr. Putin HERE; Mr. Obama HERE Eyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander...
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Ruminations 100(3) (The Year of Olokun; The Virus in and as Object, Symbol...
Pix Credit HERE Eyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander through reflection, I have taken...
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Ruminations 100(4) (The Year of Olokun; The Object is Not Itself): Looking...
Pix Credit: Adam Klasfeld, "Derek Chauvin and Three Other Ex-Officers Plead Not Guilty to Civil Rights Charges in George Floyd's Death," Law & Crime (14 Sept 2021) Eyo Olokun masquerades at the...
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Ruminations 100(5) (The Year if Olokun; Rage is Wirtten on the Body): Looking...
Pix Credit HEREEyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander through reflection, I have taken...
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The Orishas Speak: The 2022 Letter of the Yoruba Association of Cuba (Letra...
Posted to the Facebook page of the Yoruba Association of Cuba (of interest, one of the comments noted the absence of more senior members of the babalawo community; a response noted that "ha sido un...
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Letra del Año 2022 from the Babalawos "Independistas" of Cuba
Pix Credit HEREIn a prior post I noted that the short lived union of the principle collectives of Cuban Ifá practitioners was effectively dissolved in 2021 (The Orishas Speak: The 2022 Letter of the...
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From the Folks at Global SWF LLC: The 2022 Annual Report: State Owned...
From the folks at Global SWF LLC, a new report that is worth reading--The 2022 Annual Report: State Owned Investors 3.0. They describe the Annual Report this way: State-Owned Investors enjoyed a...
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Challenges to the Application of the Chinese State Secrets Law Abroad as...
Pix Credit: Michael A. Silk and Jillian S, Ashley, "Understanding CHina's State Secrets Laws," CHina Business Review (2011) ("China’s state secrets laws can also burden Chinese enterprises that seek...
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"Remember Remember the 5th of November": President Biden's Remarks During...
Pix credit HERE Remember, Remember, the 5th of NovemberGunpowder, treason and plotI see no reasonWhy gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot.Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intentTo blow up the Kong...
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Course Concept Note and Syllabus 2022--Teaching a Course on "Actors,...
I have been lucky enough to be able to teach one of the core courses in the Penn State School of International Affairs. That course, "Actors, Institutions, and Legal Frameworks in International...
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习近平 "加强党史军史和光荣传统教育 确保官兵永远听党话、跟党走" [Xi Jinping, "Strengthen the education of...
2019年10月1日，庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年大会在北京天安门广场隆重举行。这是中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平检阅受阅部队。 新华社记者 李涛/摄 [On October 1, 2019, the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was...
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Victory Requires its Own History: Chinese State Council White Paper: "Hong...
Pic Credit HEREVictory requires its own narrative. And that narrative must in turn express a fidelity to the core values of the victor. History must be understood as the expression of that narrative...
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“各族人民亲如一家" ("People of All Ethnic Groups are Like One Family): Creating a...
Pix Credit HERE Pix Credit HEREThe great issue that faced nations emerging from the last great age of territorial empire was that of absorbing minority populations within a large territorial state...
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