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  You might be surprised after reading this question. But yes it’s true that Japan doesn’t have an operational forced army. In this article we are going to tell you the primary reason & the story behind this. This short article will answer - why doesn't Japan have an army?   After World War II On September 2, 1945, the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, signed the surrender of the Japanese country, given the inability of its army to face the counterattack of the Allied countries at the end of World War II.   The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August of the same year, had annulled any possibility of continuing to resist after four years of war.   A Pacifist Constitution With this document, the United States , through its War Department, «forced» the Asian country to acquire a pacifist constitution; that is, Japan promised never again to have an Army, declare war or apply an offensive policy.   WO Masanobu Murawaki, Sg...

  Australia  will acquire a sanction law like the U.S. Magnitsky Act that permits targeted monetary sanctions and travel boycotts against people who are "culprits of intolerable acts of global concern", the foreign affairs minister expressed in August 2021.    A Magnitsky Act is a kind of enactment that empowers state-run administrations to force financial sanctions against foreign people or entities who perpetrate or are engaged with severe human rights violations and corruption overseas.    This enactment works extra-regionally, forcing fines on people or organizations, including freezing and demanding resources and travel boycotts, for acts performed outside the administering nation's jurisdiction.    Australia is on the cusp of passing a Magnitsky Act of their own. When asked by the @smh what the greatest risk was with this legislation⁩, I said “It won’t be used against human rights abusers from powerful countries like China and R...

  On Tuesday, China greeted a virtual summit between President Xi and POTUS Biden, expecting to accomplish healthier relations, while the US was more muffled on the discussions as the two greatest powers tried to tighten down over an extended period of strains.    Tensions between the two world powers have been there for a long time. From Huawei, trade war, shutting down of consulates, coronavirus blame game, to Taiwan, the list goes on about the tension amid the two nations. Moreover, former President Donald Trump has also sharply criticized China for violating human rights Xinjiang region.   Relations remained cold after Biden held office. In March, senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi blamed the US for failing to manage its own human rights issues, and that's American hypocrisy at a meeting in Alaska.    EXPLAINER: Will Xi-Biden talks repair US-China ties? Cordial tone of virtual meeting an indication ties between sides may be...

  On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in the G2o Summit, urged China to deescalate tensions in the Indo-pacific region, and refrained from taking unilateral actions towards Taiwan.   Blinken said at the G20 meeting that China has expanded pressures concerning Taiwan and that Washington needs to proceed with its "one-China strategy," which perceives Beijing yet permits informal relations and continues defence tie with Taipei.    The top U.S. ambassador told Wang that the U.S. had not changed its "one China" strategy towards Taiwan.    Blinken stated that the U.S. goes against activities by China "that oppose our interests and values... including activities associated with human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet.  Bilateral relations between #China and the #US in past few years have suffered an all-around impact due to US’ wrong China policy, #FM Wang Yi said Sunday during his m...

  There is a lot of buzz around a proposed social media law that regulates the content one watches online in Canada . If the bill is passed in the parliament, it will be the first time that a lberal country will be going ahead with such social media restriction. If this was for any other country, there would have been large scale protests by people opposing such a law that snacthes their right to express themselves. There is no denying that the law threatens the human rights of the people of the country but if it were to be implemented in a more sophisticated way, it might prove to be the best thing for Canada in recent years. The law will essentially be regulating the social media platforms and moderate the harmful user generated content on the platform. The scholars have already started to criticise the law stating various facts by which this breaks the human rights norms. Many experts have gone through the proposed norms and as per them, they consist of some of the most wi...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden discussed the security situation in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a telephone call. They also agreed to hold a virtual G7 Summit next week with other allied leaders.   Following the Taliban took control of Kabul; the first international counterpart that President Biden spoke to is UK PM Boris Johnson.   The two-nation leaders "talked about the necessity for continued close coordination among partners and democratic leaders over Afghanistan policy going ahead, including ways the international community can give in the form of humanitarian assistance and support for displaced people and other helpless Afghans," the White House stated.   The White House said the US and British leaders consented to hold a virtual G7 meeting one week from now "to talk about a common approach and strategy to help the situation and people of Afghanistan."   On Tuesday, the United States and Western partners conti...

United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo claimed “enormous evidence” endorse that, Corona virus outbreak began in the Wuhan laboratory. But, Pompea didn’t provide any proof for his claims about the starter point of Corona Pandemic. But, Pompea said to media that, he can identify a significant amount of evidence that Covid-19 came from that laboratory in Wuhan. He also exclaimed that, this isn't the first time that world suffered to viruses which breakout as a result of failures in a Chinese lab. United President Donald Trump have began accrediting China laboratory as the only for the breakout of corona virus and thus the Secretary of State adjoins him in blaming China for corona pandemic. On a step-ahead, Donald Trump have promised that, the United States govt will be providing a detailed report very soon, which will describe about the Chinese origin of ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Donald Trump also claimed that, he doubts that Beijing had misled the entire world into a ...

After the coronavirus outbreak, the United Nations called for a worldwide ban on the wet markets in China. Among numerous such infectious diseases, SARS and Covid-19 are believed to have originated from such markets as one in Wuhan. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that the United States had called China and demanded permanent closure of the wet markets. To understand the Chinese wet markets, here’s a brief introduction: - Chinese wet markets are an everyday shopping place for Chinese people. These are open shops set up on the road where people can purchase live animals of different sorts to cook and eat. It also includes seafood, various wild animals that can be butchered on the spot, fresh vegetables, herbs, and spices. These wet markets have been around for generations and have become an essential part of the Chinese lifestyle. Many Scientists have studied and notified that the root cause of countless infectious diseases like Ebola, SARS, MERS, and...

The deputy leader of the Afghan Taliban said that the movement would soon sign an agreement with the United States to reduce violence for seven days, adding that the movement’s leaders were “fully committed” to respect the “historic” agreement. "Today, we stand on the threshold of a peace agreement with the United States, it’s not a small achievement," wrote Serageldin Haqqani in an opinion piece in the New York Times, in the first important public statement by a prominent movement leader on the agreement to reduce violence for a week. The initial agreement reached during negotiations between representatives of the United States and the Taliban may lead to the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. "Achieving the agreement with all its capabilities and ensuring its success and gaining a lasting peace will depend on the United States strictly respecting all its obligations," Haqqani, who also leads the Haqqani network that has links to Pakista...

President Donald Trump fired Gordon Sondland, the diplomat to the European Union, and Lt Col Alexander Vindman from his White House office on Friday. Both Vindman and Sondland gave damaging testimony during the indictment inquiry against Trump. Sondland said in an announcement that he was advised today that the president expects to review him by taking effect right now as United States Ambassador to the European Union." Hours sooner, Vindman, a Ukraine expert on the national security council who had been booked to rotate out of his White House assignments, was out of nowhere terminated on Friday, as indicated by an announcement from his legal counsel. The lawyer, David Pressman, stated: "He followed orders, he complied with his promise, and he served his nation. What's more, the most influential man on the planet – floated by the silent, the compliant, and the complicit – has chosen to get retribution. "There is no doubt in the minds of any America...

By Victoria Hudson. A Palestinian teenager died on Friday afternoon from serious injuries sustained during a Great March of Return to Gaza demonstration months ago. Gaza's ministry of health said Alaa al-Abbasi, 15, was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces months ago during the protests of the Great March of Return east of Khan Younis, south of the Strip of Gaza. The Great Return March was launched on 30 March 2018 along the border of the Gaza Strip to demand the return of Palestinian refugees and an end to the 13-year blockade on Gaza. In 2020, Palestine refugees in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria will “continue to face daunting human development and protection challenges” precipitated by the occupation of the West Bank, the conflict in Syria, the political crisis in Lebanon and the growing needs in Jordan, said Christian Saunders, Deputy Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). ...

On Sunday, Chuck Schumer, the US Senate Minority Leader, said that senior government authorities must testify in Donald Trump's impeachment trial after a report asserted that the president told a former adviser to suspend military aid to Ukraine pending investigations concerning political opponents. The New York Times gave an account of Sunday that it uncovers that Trump told Former National Security Advisor John Bolton in August that he needed to keep retaining $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials helped to give data about inquiries concerning the former United States VP, Joe Biden. The White House didn't respond quickly to the primary document, nor did Jay Sekulow the legal advisor who is helping Trump to fight his prosecution proceeding in the US Senate. Charles Cooper, who is representing Bolton, also didn't react or gave any comments. The disclosures could undermine one of the essential defenses made by Trump and his allies between the ...

As per the speculation floating around, there are high chances of ‘phase one’ deal getting signed between the world’s biggest economies, US and China. The news of a deal coming through has infused confidence in the market, boosting trade, investments and stocks across the world. As a consequence of it many central banks including Federal Reserve of US, the European Central Bank and many across Asia have reduced interest rates to infuse growth. Many nations, such as China and India, have also brought down taxes to stimulate their economies. Beijing and Washington have been at loggerheads for nearly two years, over tariff issues and intellectual property rights. The trade war between the two created ripples across the world leading to major dip in stock market and manufacturing sector, stalling growth of various economies. On Wednesday, during a Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific Summit in Singapore, Gokul Laroia, co-chief executive of the group told CNBC, “A deal coupled with policy ...