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PLA sent more warplanes near Taiwan island than DPP authority claimed: China’s Defense Ministry (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) sent a larger number of warplanes for drills near Taiwan in 2021 than the figure recently claimed by...

China’s food administrator stresses food security, vows to create a strategic food reserve system (Global Times)

China's National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration announced on Thursday it will further enhance the country's food security by tightening market trading supervision and...

Aircraft carrier Liaoning wraps up open sea exercises and deals with foreign close-in reconnaissance (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

The Liaoning aircraft carrier group of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on Thursday wrapped up   real combat scenario open seas exercises with the flotilla conducting...

Afghanistan thanks China for upholding fairness and justice, offering aid: acting deputy PM of Afghan Taliban’s interim govt (Global Times)

Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu on Thursday met with a senior Taliban leader to stress that China is willing to continue to provide...

How to deal with the Kremlin-created crisis in Europe (Stephen Blank, Philip Breedlove, Ian Brzezinski, Debra Cagan, Wesley K. Clark, Larry Diamond, Paula Dobriansky,...

Since President Biden’s virtual summit with President Putin on December 7, Russia has increased its troop presence on or near Ukraine’s borders. Having created...

Taiwan’s global prominence grows in 2021 (Lev Nachman, East Asia Forum)

Taiwan is living in an unprecedented time. At the end of 2020, it was still one of the few places in the world not...

The tangled diplomacy of Sri Lanka’s currency crisis (Dushni Weerakoon, East Asia Forum)

Sri Lanka ends 2021 with foreign currency reserves in hand (US$1.6 billion) to support a month of imports. For much of the year, a...

Africa Growth Initiative’s top 5 figures of 2021 (Leo Holtz and Tamara White, Brookings)

Each week, the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative team highlights figures related to African economic growth and development. These so-called “Figures of the Week” include...

Global economy and development in 2021: What we learned in Brookings Global (Esther Rosen and David Batcheck, Brookings)

The past year, we have witnessed widening economic and social disparities and inequities and increasing concentration of poverty exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In...

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