Francesco Lapenta, Ph.D., Director, John Cabot University’s Institute of Future and Innovation Studies Rome, October 25, 2022 Rarely in human history have the high stakes of the relationships between technology, peace, democracy, and the future of Humanity and the...
Boston, October 25, 2022 We were deeply saddened to learn of the recent death of Ash Carter, the former United States Secretary of Defense, who was an important contributor to Boston Global Forum (BGF)’s work on cybersecurity and peace. In 2020, Secretary...
(BGF) - According to AP News, in an effort to manage the wave of indignation of anti-China protesters, Hanoi's government deployed dancers to stop them from making speeches and getting close to the statue of Ly Thai To, the founder of Hanoi. Click here to read the...
(BGF) - A CCTV4 documentary video which appeared online in early January, provided a detailed history of the China Marine Surveillance (CMS), revealed an incident that occurred on June 30, 2007 between various government vessels from Vietnam and China in the disputed...
(BGF) - The Philippine showed its firm position when its Maritime police detained 11 Chinese fishermen and their boat off Hasa-Hasa Shoal, found nearly 400 live sea turtles on May 7. The seizure angered China as it claimed it has the sovereignty over the Ban Yue Reef,...
(Photo Credit: AFP/Japan Coast Guard) (BGF) - In this article, featured in The Washington Post, M. Taylor Fravel and Alastair Iain Johnston, professors at MIT and Harvard University, respectively, analyze recent data on the frequency of Chinese coast guard patrols off...
(BGF) - In a news conference, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told that the Philippines submitted documents, consist of nearly 4,000 pages of analysis and documentary evidence, to the tribunal in The Hague against China's territorial claims in the South China...
(BGF) - China's new law that requires foreign fishermen to seek Beijing's approval to operate in disputed waters of the South China Sea, increased tensions with Vietnam and the Philippines. The U.S. has also criticized China's move, calling it "provocative and...