Geopolitics & Worlds

China’s challenges amid COVID-19 and great power competition (Wang Yong, East Asia Forum)

The COVID-19 pandemic and major power competition tested China in 2021. A review of the trends of 2021 reveals the opportunities and challenges ahead. COVID-19...

Zambia’s success will be Africa’s success (H.E. Hakainde Hichilema, Brookings)

The year 2021 has been a landmark year for Zambia. Two important events occurred. The passing of the first president of independent Zambia, Dr....

The digital transformation of agriculture in Indonesia (Lesly Goh, Brookings)

Food security is an important goal for Indonesia, and since the introduction of the Food Law of 2012, the country has made good progress in...

Federal investments ignore crucial upgrades to school facilities—and students pay the price (Logan Booker and Nicolas Zerbino, Brookings)

Throughout the first year of his presidency, Joe Biden has regularly highlighted the need for investing in school infrastructure. From speeches referencing the lack...

Resistance to Erdoğan’s encroachment at Turkey’s top university, one year on (Kemal Kirişci, Mine Eder, and Mert Arslanalp, Brookings)

The start of 2021 was shocking as mobs attacked the U.S. Capitol, the bastion of American democracy, in an attempt to stop the certification...

Steps the states should take to achieve the infrastructure bill’s broadband goals (Blair Levin, Brookings)

The recently signed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) makes the largest federal investment into broadband expansion in the nation’s history. To accomplish the act’s broadband...

Did the FAA cry wolf on 5G? (Tom Wheeler, Brookings)

In the sixth century B.C., Greek storyteller Aesop told the tale of a boy tasked with watching his village’s sheep herd who sought attention...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Press Availability (US Department of State)

REMARKS ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL GENEVA, SWITZERLAND JANUARY 21, 2022 SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good afternoon.  Foreign Minister Lavrov and I finished our meeting a short while...

Podcast: What’s Happening in Kazakhstan? (Alexander Gabuev, Assel Tutumlu, Temur Umarov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

What and who was behind the recent unrest in Kazakhstan? What was the role of Russia? What will become of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s...

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