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USA/Southeast Asia – Biden Versus Trump in Southeast Asia: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
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MALCOLM COOK Southeast Asian leaders, senior officials and the region’s geopolitics commentariat place great stock in the personal engagement, or not, of the US president...

Vietnam – Feisty and delicate: Vietnam’s approach to handling great power rivalry (ISEAS)

William Choong Vietnam’s domestic and foreign policy structures held up well in 2020 in the face of significant challenges involving Covid-19, chairing ASEAN, and relations...

A voice from India: correct tracking systems are needed to prevent the virus (Shashidhar K.J., Marco Emanuele, The Science of Where Magazine)

The Science of Where Magazine meets Shashidhar K.J., Associate Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (India) India shows the power and invasiveness of a virus that has not yet...

Europe/China – Europe’s crusade to fend off Chinese interference falls short (Bruegel)

ALICIA GARCÍA-HERRERO It is in everybody's interest for China to level the playing field among state-owned, private, and foreign companies so that no new distortionary...

Research and innovation policies and productivity growth (Bruegel)

REINHILDE VEUGELERS Can research and innovation policies power growth? The answer currently can only be a timid yes. Too little is known of what drives...

USA/Afghanistan – Real-World Options for Afghanistan (CSIS)

Anthony H. Cordesman It is time for the U.S. to face its real-world options in Afghanistan and to do so without false optimism or “spin.”...

USA – Redraw the Limits on Lethal Force Against Terror Groups (Defense One)

Rachel Stohl is Vice President and Shannon Dick is a Research Analyst at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. As the Biden administration reviews policies...

Army Leaders Have Agreed to Cap Troop Size, Top General Says (Defense One)

Caitlin M. Kenney Gen. McConville and the acting secretary have agreed the force will not grow past 485,000 active-duty soldiers next year. But can they...

How to Detect Sarcasm with Artificial Intelligence (Defense One)

Patrick Tucker Humans make inferences about tone and meaning, but algorithms can find hidden relationships between words to detect irony and intentional falsehood. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/05/how-detect-sarcasm-artificial-intelligence/173936/

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