Category: 2020

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: How a Multi-Trillion Dollar Project Could Affect Global Energy Trade Agreements

By Sara Jenkins   The Belt and Road Initiative: In 2013, China’s President, Xi JinPing, announced a plan to invest in various infrastructure projects along the ancient silk road route to connect Asian, African, and European countries while …

To Zoom or Not to Zoom, that is the Question: How a Global Pandemic Exposed the Flaws of Global Consumer Privacy Protection Laws

  By: Angel Shah   A global pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus disease or “COVID-19”, has inundated the world, with seemingly no end in sight.[i] To try to stop the spread of this highly infectious disease, governments …

Gaming the System: Money Laundering through Microtransactions and In-Game Currencies

Alexandra Norton   With what seems like new technological advances developing daily, cybercrimes are becoming more and more common, with little to no policing in place. As of December 2018, there were more than 4.1 billion internet users …

Free Hong Kong: A Case for Independence

Erich Greiner             I. A History of the Current Protests               It has now been two years since a Hong Kong teenager brutally murdered Poon Hiu-Wing while travelling in Taiwan, strangling her …

Day Zero: Blessing the Rains in South Africa

Meagan McNeely   In 2018, after years of below-average rainfall[1], the South African government announced the impending arrival of “Day Zero,” the day on which city tap water would be officially turned off.[2] The city of Cape Town, …