Geopolitics & Worlds

Vietnam’s COVID-19 testing scandal goes viral (Thiem Bui, East Asia Forum)

Since early 2020, the Vietnamese Communist Party has been portraying their efforts to fight COVID-19 as a war against an ‘invisible enemy’, mobilising healthcare...

Hun Sen future-proofs Cambodia’s politics (Astrid Noren-Nilsson, East Asia Forum)

As 2021 drew to a close, three events seemed to encapsulate the state of Cambodia’s long-standing political camps: the announcement of Prime Minister Hun...

An inquiry into Australia’s COVID-19 responses is what’s needed now (Tom Westland, East Asia Forum)

Everyone has a view on the saga surrounding Novak Djokovic and his Australian visa. The question though is: how did it come to this?...

Harnessing technology and innovation for a better future in Africa: Policy priorities for enabling the ‘Africa we want’ (Landry Signé, Brookings)

The COVID-19 crisis has changed how the world functions, bringing to light many limitations of existing systems and showing the need to reimagine the...

An overview of Biden’s first regulatory year (Bridget C. E. Dooling, Brookings)

The first few days of the Biden administration were replete with regulatory news. Not only did the new president direct agencies to halt and...

The tips of the butterfly: Linking East Asia and Africa (Greg Mills, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Brookings)

In the late 1990s, South Africa’s then-Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin likened the country’s trade strategy to a “butterfly,” according to which the...

Proxy voting takes on new meaning for Republicans (Emily Larson, Naomi Maehr, and Molly E. Reynolds, Brookings)

As the COVID-19 pandemic starts its third year, countless institutions are facing questions about a broader return to “normal” operations—including Capitol Hill. In the...

How Middle Eastern conflicts are playing out on social media (Daniel L. Byman, Brookings)

The Middle East has always been rife with enmity and rivalry, and its regimes have long taken advantage of the region’s many linguistic, religious,...

Japan-Taiwan relations: A look back on 2021 and look ahead to 2022 (Adam P. Liff and Ryan Hass, Brookings)

Throughout 2021, U.S. government officials and scholars expressed deepening concerns that China may use its growing military power to force unification with Taiwan. Against this backdrop,...

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