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Housing growth in the Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. metro areas shows why the U.S. is failing at climate resilience (Rushaine Goulbourne, Jenny Schuetz,...

Climate resilience has emerged as a key priority for the Biden administration. President Joe Biden has announced an ambitious goal to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas...

A new climate finance framework for investing in urban resilience (Joseph W. Kane, Adie Tomer, Brookings)

As climate change continues to intensify—raising the urgency to address mounting risks and escalating costs—the public and private response remains slow and uneven. Steps...

Prospective Chinese ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang will have sights on engaging ASEAN (Yu Zeyuan, ThinkChina)

Former foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang is slated to be the next Chinese ambassador to Indonesia. Amid US-China tensions, a post in Indonesia presents...

China’s AI giant SenseTime blacklisted: Is China-US financial decoupling taking place? (Yang Danxu, ThinkChina)

The US government has seemingly pulled the rug from under the feet of SenseTime by putting it on a blacklist just a week before...

Japanese politicians tussle over power and speaking rights on Taiwan (Zhang Yun, ThinkChina)

Recent comments by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have people speculating if Japan is taking a more hawkish stance on Taiwan. Japan-based academic...

Taiwan’s algal reef referendum: A proxy for political battle? (Woon Wei Jong, ThinkChina)

The Datan algal reef off Taoyuan in Taiwan is rich with biodiversity, and a natural barrier for Taiwan. However, plans for a third LNG...

For a Climatic CSCE: Climate Protection as a Confidence-Building Measure (Friedbert Pflüger, Valdai Discussion Club)

Energy and climate policies are mostly long-term projects. If cooperation agreements are reached here and contracts are concluded, then this is good for the fight against...

The Post-Cold War European Security Order Is Gone: What Will Replace It? (William Hill, Valdai Discussion Club)

Thirty years have passed since the end of the Cold War. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the armed standoff between...

Multiple Nation-State actors are exploiting Log4Shell flaw (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Microsoft researchers reported that Nation-state actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are now abusing the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4J library in their campaigns....

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