When Hong Kong was handed over to China under the framework of “One country, two systems”, in 1997 by Britain, it was agreed that Hong Kong would be organized by a series of colonial decrees and administered under the context of Special Administrative Region (SAR). The colonial-era drafters had ensured that Hong Kong people would

China under President Xi Jinping is risking imperial overstretch with post-pandemic aggression as the premier seeks to press China’s advantage in the region amidst the heightened rate of coronavirus contagion in neighbouring countries. While China’s neighbours are facing the crucial challenges of flattening the epidemic curve and ensuring quick economic recovery, the former has opened

The ongoing dispute between India and Nepal over the Kalapani-Limpiadhura-Lipulekh trijunction can perhaps be best explained within the discourse of ‘cartographic anxiety’. Coined by Sankaran Krishna, cartographic anxiety emanates from the process of territorial consolidation pursued by a political community in order to model itself on the standard established by the European nation-state. In this

The introduction of “Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill” also referred to as the “Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill” adumbrated months-long Hong Kong protest. The bill first proposed in February 2019 to the city’s Legislative Council (Legco) by Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, marked the beginning of

China’s military reform and planning have long been a complicated issue as it contrasts the Chinese facet of ‘peaceful rise’. This facet has important regional and global implications. Though President Xi’s “China Dream” speech of ‘national rejuvenation’ begets four different dimensions of “China Dream”: Strong China, Civilized China, Harmonious China, and Beautiful China, it is

About the author Related posts Radhika Jagtap jagtap.radhika7@gmail.com | Website Radhika is a doctoral candidate at Centre for International Legal Studies at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is a law graduate from Nirma University with specialization in Constitutional Law. She also attended the 11th summer course on International Law at Indian Institute

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