Ernest Chong Geopolitical debate often aspires to acta non verba (“deeds, not words”). In the South China Sea, Beijing has seemingly embraced this aspiration wholeheartedly as the region’s honey badger. China’s latest act of fearless indifference? Spending the past year terraforming brand-new islands in the Sea’s hotly-contested Spratlys region. While it is not the first…
Tag: Militarization
Opinion: The Militarization of America’s Law Enforcement and Protracted State Violence
Shelby Challis The militarization of law enforcement personnel in the United States is not a new phenomenon; rather, it is a decades-long trend that has recently been receiving extensive media attention due to the rising social unrest that it has ignited across the country. While the vast majority of American news audiences might only now be…
