These independent social media platforms provide Beijing with a backdoor entrance to conduct internet surveillance on its citizens. The communist government has alongside private citizens in the IT sector developed an entirely independent internet ecosystem, preventing outside/western contact and connections within China. Being a dictatorial country with extremely low political and civil freedoms, much of the news in China is monitored and censored by the government therefore, neither Chinese citizens nor foreign media outlets are privy to the happenings inside China. While we may not talk a lot about it due to lack of information from China, the country and the leadership is in fact submerged in domestic issues in challenges. Since then, however, things in China have been going south for the CCP’s chosen one. The Chinese Premier has previously managed to gather enough support among the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to win an important vote in 2018, through which the National People’s Congress permitted Xi to remain leader for life, by amending constitutional guidelines which enforced a two-term limit on its Presidents (BBC 2018). However, one of the main causes of concerns in today’s geopolitical domain is the uncontainable rise of an aggressive and expansionist People’s Republic of China, under the helm of the dictatorial leader – Xi Jinping – considered to be one of the strongest, most assertive leaders of the communist country since Mao Zedong. This century has also witnessed the return of the Russians as an important player in these regions. West Asia & North Africa, Central Asia, in South Asia as well as instances in Southeast Asia. The dawn of the 21 st century saw the coming of the long and bloody, global war on terror with theatres of war across the Islamic world i.e.

The 20 th century ended on a high note for the Liberal-Capitalist world, with the fall of the communist states of the Soviet Union, leaving the United States as the single remaining, unipolar power of the world, asserting its national interests and objectives on states across the globe.

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