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Chechnya – Governor of Chechnya Hunts Down His Critics Across Russian Federation (Valery Dzutsati, The Jamestown Foundation)

The ruler of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, aspires to have not only administrative but also moral control over the population of his republic—as well as...

Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan – Border Conflict Compels Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Look for Foreign Weapons (Fozil Mashrab, The Jamestown Foundation)

Neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan came close to seeing the outbreak of renewed border clashes on June 4. This danger of fresh violence emerged little...

USA/Russia – Putin’s Satisfaction With Geneva Summit Will Not Last (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Expectations regarding the summit between Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva last Wednesday (June 16) were set quite low (see EDM, June 14, 17),...

China/PLA – Early Warning Brief: The PLA’s Military Diplomacy Under COVID-19 (Kenneth Allen, The Jamestown Foundation)

Introduction The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been responsible for conducting military diplomacy since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949....

USA/Russia – Takeaways from the Biden-Putin Summit (Himani Pant, VIF)

The downturn in the trajectory of US-Russia ties has become more pronounced since 2014. The differences over Ukraine, Middle East and others have been...

Hollywood/China – The future of Hollywood–China relations after the pandemic (Wendy Su, East Asia Forum)

Though film industries are market-based and profit-driven, they cannot escape the constraints of the political structures, ideology, or cultural value systems in which they...

Australia – Ensuring the Davis Aerodrome doesn’t become a geopolitical own goal (Alan D Hemmings, Donald R Rothwell, East Asia Forum)

In May 2018, Australia announced its intention to build a paved runway at Davis research station in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT). Additional funding to advance...

USA – America’s Comeback Tour (Javier Solana, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden’s first international tour felt like a breath of fresh air. From the G7 summit in Cornwall to a meeting with...

USA/China – Biden Is Back, America Isn’t (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

America is back. That was the key message US President Joe Biden sought to convey during his first trip abroad since taking office in...

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