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(China/USA/5G) China’s Huawei Is Winning the 5G Race. Here’s What the United States Should Do To Respond (CFR)

David Sacks China is successfully using the Belt and Road Initiative to promote the adoption of Huawei 5G, while the United States is looking to...

(Southeast Asia/USA) What Southeast Asia wants from the Biden presidency (East Asia Forum)

Dewi Fortuna Anwar, P2P-LIPI Southeast Asians are predisposed to welcome the Biden presidency after four years of tumultuous US foreign policy under Donald Trump. There is a...

(Innovation/Technology) Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as the food deliver market continues to heat up (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another hopeful in the...

(Innovation/Technology) The not-so-secret value of sharing commercial geospatial and open-source information (

Mir Sadat and Michael Sinclair Two years ago, reports surfaced that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was detaining hundreds of thousands of China’s Muslim Uyghurs and other...

(Africa) Figure of the week: Governance, citizen dissatisfaction, and levels of trust in Africa (Brookings)

Tamara White The pandemic has seen citizens mobilize to combat dissatisfaction with governments around the world. Africa in particular has seen an increase in protests...

(Global Economy) Are better managed firms more pandemic-resilient? (Brookings)

Arti Grover and Valerie Karplus The COVID-19 crisis is forcing firms to explore survival strategies to deal with the unprecedented disruption. Global consulting firms have been asked...

(Climate Risk) Global economic impacts of climate shocks, climate policy, and changes in climate risk assessment (Brookings)

Roshen Fernando, Weifeng Liu, and Warwick J. McKibbin This study assesses the global macroeconomic consequences of changes in climate risk. https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-economic-impacts-of-climate-shocks-climate-policy-and-changes-in-climate-risk-assessment/

(USA) Medicare advanced imaging payment: Dysfunctional policy making (Brookings)

Bruce Steinwald, Paul B. Ginsburg, Caitlin Brandt, and Sobin Lee Medicare’s experience of paying for outpatient imaging services, particularly expensive advanced imaging such as MRIs, CAT scans, and...

(Innovation/Technology) Celonis announces significant partnership with IBM to sell its process mining software (TechCrunch)

Ron Miller Before you can improve a workflow, you have to understand how work advances through a business, which is more complex than you might...

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