Somali Institute of Chinese Studies

03/06/2025

Paddy McCorry took freedom fighting into another level. If the referee had not called it off, there would've been a "Who is your daddy" moment from Paddy.

Humiliation was so bad that Shuki Farage couldn't hold his head up.

03/06/2025

Paddy McCorry took freedom fighting into another level. If the referee had not called it off, there would've been a "Who is your daddy" moment from Paddy.

Humiliation was so bad that Shuki Farage couldn't hold his head up.

13/03/2025

Somaliland Secession Vs. a Hypothetical New England Secession: Somaliland's claim to independence is akin to a hypothetical New England secession from the U.S. based solely on historical British nomenclature

By Ali Hoosoow (Somali Institute of Chinese Studies)

During the era of the Anglo-Saxon colonial expansion, both the New England region in the northeastern United States and the Somaliland region in northern were named and colonized by European colonial powers. To add on, New England was named as such by British colonial explorer John Smith in the early 17th century, just as British colonial administrators named the portion of the Somali land under their colony as "British ." This distinction was made to differentiate it from "Italian Somaliland," the other territory of land under Italian colonial rule. However, a name alone does not create an inherent right to sovereignty. If mere colonial nomenclature granted legitimacy to statehood, then any region once labeled by a foreign power could claim the right to independent statehood based on historical colonial settlements. This position was rejected by The People’s Republic of China regarding , and likewise it also applies to the separatist province in which cannot gain independence based on colonial history and relevant narratives.

If New England region in the U.S. cannot claim sovereignty based on colonial history and British naming conventions, then Somaliland’s…

13/03/2025

Somalia’s 1960 Reunification and the Myth of Somaliland’s “Unratified Union”

"There was unification, it was reunification"

The reunification of and marked the first step toward Somali unity, with Northern gaining independence days before the nation’s official unification.

Ratification under the political context of sovereignty is a term used for agreements between two sovereign states with UN recognition, yet #
British was never an independent country, neither was it ever recognized by the , rather it was a colonial territory without recognized borders, parliament, president, or sovereign governance. Its reunification with the rest of decolonized territories of southern Somalia was not the formation of a new state but the long-awaited reunification of a people artificially divided by European colonial rule.

Ratification is a term used for agreements between two sovereign states, yet British Somaliland was never an independent country, it was a…

09/09/2024

GT reporter Wang Wenwen interviewed Hoosoow Ali (Ali), founder of the Somali Institute of Chinese Studies and an expert in China-Africa relations.

Collaboration between China, Africa helps foster a more just global order

The collaboration between China and Africa is significant for fostering a more just global order, as it challenges the traditional Western-dominated economic and political frameworks.

03/09/2023

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