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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicNational Security Laws

Topic: National Security Laws

Trump ends Hong Kong’s special status with US to punish China

US President Donald Trump approved the legislation Tuesday after weeks of blaming Beijing for its handling of Hong Kong and treatment of minority groups in western China.

China has installed a hardline team of officials to enforce Hong Kong’s tough security law

Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam will from now on be more closely supervised by several officials who have come up through the Communist Party ranks on the mainland.

Hong Kong bans protest movement’s rallying cry for ‘revolution’

The Hong Kong government had earlier said banners and chants calling for 'Hong Kong independence' were now illegal, without specifying that this also applied to the 'Liberate Hong Kong!' slogan.

Xi’s power play in Hong Kong puts China ever more at odds with the West

Chinese President Xi Jinping sidelined Hong Kong’s leaders in shaping the city’s most important legislation since Beijing took control of the former British colony in 1997.

Why Chinese President Xi Jinping thinks he can afford to take risks with Hong Kong now

In episode 483 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains why China decided to choose this moment to go ahead with the national security laws for Hong Kong.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.