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World Responds: Sanctions, Bans, and the Global Fallout from Hong Kong’s Crackdown
China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed the Hong Kong National Security Law on 30 June 2020, and the law took effect in the territory the same night. Within weeks, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Australia, and several other governments condemned the legislation, imposed targeted sanctions on Chinese and Hong…
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The Shrinking Of The European Union’s Borders: How Nationalism Has Risen, While Sovereignty Has Fallen, The British Perspective.
The re-emergence of European nationalism proves to be a much more dangerous concept for both the United Kingdom’s national security and European security. With extremist political movements, having “re-emerged in Europe” the risks to national security while not immediately apparent, could be significant (Davies and Lynch 2002:39). When the increasing levels of global immigration, international…