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Carayannis and Weiss: Post-Covid Global Cooperation Requires the “Third UN”
October 21, 2020
As the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary, Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss explore the declining effectiveness and influence of the UN and propose a "Third UN" conducive to non-state actor participation and consisting of "a shift to a post-bureaucratic, less hierarchical, more networked organizational policy model."
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Review: Michael Anton's The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return
October 19, 2020
In a review of Michael Anton's book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, Nathan Pinkosk takes a deep look at the reasons for the post-constitutional stage toward which America is rapidly heading.
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Alarm as China, Russia and other Nations Elected to UN Human Rights Council
October 19, 2020
15 countries were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday including China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, raising alarm among human rights groups that say the repression of freedoms in those countries threaten the legitimacy of the international body.
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White House Takes Action to Secure "Critical" Tech
October 19, 2020
The White House moves to protect technologies critical to U.S. national security, including artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and semiconductors with new guidelines of a government-wide approach, including tightening the country's export control restrictions on items that strengthen the militaries of other countries, such as China or Russia.
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U.S. State and Education Department Warn of China's Influence Operations within the U.S. Education System.
October 14, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos joined forces warning the heads of lower, primary and higher education institutions about China’s influence on learning in the United States, specifically calling out Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes, alleging that they are tools of the Chinese Communist Party's influence operations.