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The Mutation of Vaccine Apartheid (Safura Abdool Karim, Project-Syndicate)

While people in many parts of the world have begun receiving booster shots against COVID-19, millions of residents in low-income countries are still waiting...

Clouds Over 2022 (Nouriel Roubini, Project-Syndicate)

Although major economies and markets fared well in 2021 despite all of the uncertainties surrounding new variants of the coronavirus, 2022 will bring new...

Is Strategic Cooperation with China Possible? (Michael Spence, Project-Syndicate)

From climate change and rising inequality to the pandemic and the digital revolution, there is ample common ground for rival powers to pursue mutually...

Chinese aid strategy hinders goals on North Korea (Andrei Lankov, East Asia Forum)

The 2018–2021 period can be seen as an important turning point in Korean history. In the space of a few years, the US–China confrontation...

The future of South Korea’s defence transition (Jina Kim, East Asia Forum)

In South Korea, presidential election fever is heating up. Key candidates from the conservative People Power Party and the liberal Democratic Party of Korea...

African democracy in 2022: 3 elections to watch (Danielle Resnick, Brookings)

Over the last 12 months, Africa’s democratic trajectory has been extremely volatile, ranging from protests in Eswatini (Swaziland) demanding an end to the country’s absolute monarchy,...

Morgan Stanley to boost stake in China brokerage to 94% (Selena Li, Reuters)

Morgan Stanley (MS.N) is set to increase its stake in its brokerage joint venture in China by 4.06% to 94%, an exchange filing showed on Wednesday,...

Lawyer says Salvadoran gov’t quashed probe of gang pact: Reuters (Al Jazeera)

A former senior Salvadoran anti-corruption prosecutor said President Nayib Bukele’s government shut down his unit’s investigation into its alleged negotiations with violent street gangs to help expand...

Mexico plans to end oil exports in 2023 to reach self-sufficiency (Amy Stillman, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to...

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