Tag: Empire

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  Pompeo confident the West is winning and will prevail over Russian and Chinese “empire desires”

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Saturday his nation's global role despite misgivings in Europe, vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for “empire”.

• Monday, March 12th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  China names an emperor for life: how imperialist the change will be?

  

  In the short space of two weeks, China has announced and now voted with near unanimous approval to amend the country’s constitution and give the party state’s powerful leader Xi Jinping a mandate to stay in office indefinitely. On Sunday, a controversial amendment to scrap a two-term limit on the office of the president was approved along with 20 other changes.