Taiwan’s balancing act with China on January 22, 2020The 2020 Taiwanese general election was held on Jan 11, 2020. Tsai Ing-wen won a second term with a comfortable victory over Han Kuo-yu in an election that had been dubbed as a sort of a referendum on the island’s approach to Beijing. Tsai, from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), captured more than 8 million […]
What are Turkey’s goals in Libya? on January 15, 2020The Turkish parliament on January 2 passed a bill that allowed the government to deploy troops to Libya to intervene in the civil war. Quickly afterwards, troops began moving into Libya, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying their mission was to ensure stability for the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli. The internationally […]