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KRIS CHENG, HOLMES CHAN The latest “us-versus-them” drama shows China sees littlechance of mending ties with the West, for now at least. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/xinjiang-cotton-beijing-taking-world

NATASHA KASSAM Displays of solidarity for Taiwan won’t contain Beijing’sambition, but US support must factor in its thinking. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/closer-taiwan-us-ties-are-stabilising-region-not-opposite

MUBASHAR HASAN Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh has deep roots in the country. A careful approach is needed in response. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/understanding-bangladesh-s-most-potent-religious-opposition

Kensuke Tanaka, OECD As the infrastructure investment needs of emerging Asian countries continue to grow, obtaining financing is becoming increasingly difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic has...

Julia Voo, Harvard Kennedy School Under Donald Trump, US global leadership on cyber issues came to a screeching halt. But ‘America is back’ under President...

Sarah Bermeo, David Leblang Apprehensions of family units from Honduras arriving at the U.S. southern border grew exponentially between 2012 and 2019, from 513 to 188,368 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/04/01/climate-violence-and-honduran-migration-to-the-united-states/

Mark Muro, Yang You With the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act signed into law, the Biden administration’s attention has turned to a massive jobs, infrastructure, and...

Arti Grover Dulani Chunga, a Malawian business owner, has risen from rags to riches. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/04/01/funneling-support-to-promising-enterprises-in-developing-countries/

Merve Tahiroglu When students at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University, Turkey’s top academic institution, gathered in January to protest President Recep Tayyip’s Erdoğan’s eleventh-hour appointment by fiat of a...