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Xi Jinping’s New Security Satraps (Jayadeva Ranade, Vivekananda International Foundation)

China’s powerful security apparatus has become even more important for Xi Jinping as he makes a bid for a third term at China’s helm...

Myanmar: Repercussions over the current verdict on Aung San Suu Kyi (Sreeparna Banerjee, ORF)

The recent move by the military court to imprison the ex-State Counsellor for two years is considered to be a major “blow to democracy”...

Biden, Beijing Olympics, and Uyghur oppression (Ayjaz Wani, ORF)

On 6 December, 2021, the Biden administration announced that the US government officials will boycott the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing citing grave human...

Transforming denial into deliberation: The case of manual scavenging (Bhanivi Saraf, Siddharth Verma, ORF)

While distributing the Swachh Survekshan Awards in November by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, President Ram Nath Kovind called manual scavenging a shameful practice,...

Recurring fires in city hospitals (Ramanath Jha, ORF)

What can be a greater tragedy than the loss of human lives in the very place where the ill have gone to heal and...

Supporting Multilateral Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis (US Department of State)

The United States is providing an additional $580 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to support seven partners who are working tirelessly in...

Five Predictions for 2022, ‘The Year of the Smart Factory’ (Jason Bergstrom, IndustryWeek)

Not long ago, the words “Wouldn’t it be great if…” reverberated around the walls of manufacturing and production environments. Organizations have long known that...

Fixing Global Trade Finance (John W.H. Denton, Victor K. Fung, Bob Sternfels, Marcus Wallenberg, Project-Syndicate)

Goods and services move around the world via critical infrastructure: roads, ports, rail networks, shipping routes, and data servers. The $5.2 trillion global trade...

The Key to the COVID-Powered Challenges of 2022 (Ngaire Woods, Project-Syndicate)

After a year in which people longed to get back to “normal,” it is now clear that COVID-19 will not make this possible. The...

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