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Geopolitics

A Tidal Wave of Hope: The High Seas Treaty and the Fight for Our Planet's Future

The High Seas Treaty, an international agreement for conserving marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdictions, has received its 60th ratification and will take effect, marking a landmark moment for ocean conservation. This hard-fought victory is a powerful rebuke to the predatory exploitation encouraged by imperialist powers and a testament to the collective will of humankind, showing that true progress for our planet is possible when nations unite beyond selfish interests.

Geopolitics

The Deep Sea Mining Controversy: Western Hypocrisy and the Assault on International Law

China processes over 90% of the world's rare earth minerals, creating Western dependence that Beijing has weaponized through export restrictions during geopolitical tensions. The US response of authorizing deep-sea mining in international waters violates UNCLOS and threatens to destabilize the global maritime order while exposing the hypocrisy of Western nations that outsourced pollution to the Global South.

Geopolitics

The Great Bargain: How ASEAN's Institutional Dream is Being Traded for Trump's Domestic Agenda

ASEAN leaders advanced a rules-based, multilateral vision for regional order, emphasizing UNCLOS and institutionalizing the South China Sea dispute, while Donald Trump's visit to Beijing focused heavily on economic deals and domestic political utility, signaling a potential shift toward major-power bargaining that sidelines ASEAN's institutional framework. This exposes the profound vulnerability of the Global South to the transactional whims of Western powers, threatening to erase decades of collective diplomacy and reducing sovereign nations to mere pawns in a neo-colonial game of great power politics.