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(Climate Change/Sustainable Consumption) Sustainable consumption: A big gap between consumer attitude and intent? (ORF)

ROSHAN SAHA Improving the way food is produced — and also consumed — will go a long way towards addressing global warming. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/sustainable-consumption-big-gap-between-consumer-attitude-intent/

(India) Ordinance on Commission on Air Quality lapses, air pollution persists (ORF)

NISHANT SIROHI The continued inability of the executive bodies to implement judicial orders not only leads to the persistence of the problem of air pollution,...

(Sri Lanka/UNHCR/China) Sri Lanka’s rejection of the UNHRC resolution: A shift towards China? (ORF)

ASANGA ABEYAGOONASEKERA Sri Lanka’s foreign policy posture is to balance the US and China, being part of both BRI and the Indo-Pacific. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/sri-lanka-rejection-unhrc-resolution-shift-towards-china/

(China/Iran/West Asia) China inks a strategic gambit with Iran in West Asia (ORF)

KABIR TANEJA, KALPIT A MANKIKAR While China’s push into Iran is impressive on paper, how Beijing puts this into practice will be the major point to...

(India) Proposing a new governance structure for Delhi (ORF)

NIRANJAN SAHOO, RUPAK CHATTOPADHYAY A two-tier structure, with elected municipalities for each city district, which share power in a regional government with central representatives, can be...

(Turkey) Quo Vadis Turkish Politics? (BESA Center)

Begum Burak Turkey has never had a fully liberal democratic regime. The country, which suffered the authoritarianism of the Kemalist regime’s top-down attempts to modernize,...

(USA/Iran) Iran Remains Unworthy of Trust (BESA Center)

Spyridon N. Litsas President Biden is keen to resuscitate the foreign policy of Barack Obama and return to the Iran nuclear deal. But Iran, which...

(USA/Iran) The Clause That Could Scupper the Iran Nuclear Accord (BESA Center)

James M. Dorsey A little-acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program explains jockeying by the US and the Islamic Republic...

(Hong Kong) Hong Kong conviction flouts national and international law (ITUC)

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has condemned the conviction of union leader Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of...

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