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(Taiwan) Supply chains critical to Taiwan’s security (East Asia Forum)

James Lee, UC San Diego Tensions are rising in the Taiwan Strait. Chinese warplanes have been entering Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on an almost daily basis....

(South Korea/Mongolians/China) Why South Korea should stand up for Mongolians in China (East Asia Forum)

Alexandra Langford and Mark Tokola, KEI Every country in the world claims to defend human rights. One test of their sincerity is whether they will...

(China/India/South Asia) South Asia deftly navigates China–India tensions (East Asia Forum)

Rohan Mukherjee, Yale-NUS College China–India relations took a turn for the worse in 2020. Intrusions by the People’s Liberation Army along the contested border led...

(Australia/India) Can an Australia–India FTA succeed where RCEP failed? (East Asia Forum)

Shiro Armstrong and Evgeniia Shannon, ANU Having secured free trade agreements (FTAs) with almost all key trading partners, Australia is honing in on a long elusive...

(USA) Why the SolarWinds Hack Is a Wake-Up Call (CFR)

Robert K. Knake The sweeping cyber espionage campaign shows how sophisticated adversaries can bypass even well-defended targets. https://www.cfr.org/article/why-solarwinds-hack-wake-call

(Civic Spaces/Digital) Digitizing civic spaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (Brookings)

Maya Gros and Norman Eisen As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries, regions and cities have introduced a number of extraordinary measures such as quarantines and...

(USA) Social networks and economic mobility–what the findings reveal (Brookings)

Sarah Nzau, Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Kwadwo Frimpong In 2020, the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative completed two research projects on the role of social networks in economic...

(Morocco) The arrest of Maati Monjib and the continued retreat of human rights in Morocco (Brookings)

Adel Abdel Ghafar Last December, Maati Monjib — a Moroccan historian and former Patkin Fellow in the Middle East Democracy and Development Project at Brookings...

(USA) Why America has great science but terrible politics (Brookings)

Darrell M. West Why does America have such great science but terrible politics? Only a couple of weeks ago, a United States spacecraft flew 293...

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