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Despite backlash, China passes Hong Kong security law. How will it affect Hong Kong?

Hong Kong witnessed one of the more prominent changes in years of free governance when China successfully passed Hong Kong security law on June 30, 2020 which will now give new powers to China over Hong Kong.  It all happened in a way that Hong Kong never had any security law because of its unpopularnature so China intervened and took it upon itself to ensure the ‘security’ of the autonomous country, a move highly criticised by officials and the Hong Kong nationals. There were series of protests demanding China not to interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs but China went on to intrude and despite backlases, managed to pass the law, which made people doubt their freedom. "It is clear that the law will have a severe impact on freedom of expression, if not personal security, on the people of Hong Kong. Effectively, they are imposing the People's Republic of China's criminal system onto the Hong Kong common law system, leaving them with complete discretion to decide who should fall ...

14 members of Katai’b Hezbollah arrested in Iraq in battle power against Iran

Iran and Iraq have been the most unstable countries as far as the military is concerned and time and again these countries have challenged each other in the game of power. In the recent show of events, 14 members of Katai’b Hezbollah, backed by Iran, have been arrested by the Iraqui military force. Katai’b Hezbollah is one of the strongest Shia armed factionedwithin the Hashed al-Shaabi,backed and established by Iran. In the overnight raid, Iraqui forces managed to get the betterof a fully armed militia group in their first raid against groups accused of anti-US rocket attacks, Iraqi officials said early Friday. This daring operation is also a reflection of Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa-al-Khadimi’s efforts to curtail down all the activities involving these terror and militia groups. Government sourcestold DPA news agency the operation “aims at enforcing security, tracking armed groups that fuel violence and occasionally strike at official buildings.” “Based on intelligence information...

Can Europe really take the Independent road?

People have always wondered European Union’s stance on the political drift between the front runners but they are still left somewhere in the middle. But there is a subtle wave of thought that European officials seem to believe that the EU should now take a more aggressive stance and defend itself more sharply than it used to, especially when it comes to competing against political models.  If you take technology for an example, Japan, America, China and South Korea easily lie ahead of European nations. If they try to take an independent approach in this very sector, it might turn out to be disastrous simply because there is a Fragmented European market. Europe does not have a tech giant to fight the battle. There is another reason for it which is a flexible approach. Be it Asian countries or America, whoever is leading the tech world knows that the industry is very flexible and words matter more than the law. Europe, unfortunately, does not understand this. Their laws do not invit...

Crisis Breaks Syria

     Nothing has been stable in Syria for as long as we remember. When the world is fighting a battle against coronavirus, this middle-eastern country has more to think and worry about. Syrian nationals have not lived in peace for the longest time now. After Bashar-al-Assad succeeded his father, there was a row of protests and incidents which were enough to show how Syria as a country is headed towards a full crisis. In 2011, when Arab Spring was an emerging phenomenon, Syrians also started to be part of it and demanded to choose their leaders. But unlike other countries, a series of protests did not work in the favour of the nation. Extreme measures were taken as resorts to silence the population demanding for the president’s resignation. There was a time when the US was in support of this resignation. The superpower wanted Assad to step down. And there is a time now when the United States has decided to get away with the idea of the regime leader stepping down and wan...