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(USA/China/Global Vaccine Competition) The US-China global vaccine competition (AEI)

Derek Scissors, Dan Blumenthal American COVID-19 vaccine technology is the world’s best. Moreover, potential competitors face greater obstacles in efficacy, transparency, and production. https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-us-china-global-vaccine-competition/

(USA/Philanthropy/Rural Communities) Five lessons for successful place-based philanthropy in rural communities (AEI)

Juliet Squire Place-based philanthropy can revitalize struggling rural communities that lack the financial resources to overcome national and international trends that have hollowed out their...

(Afghanistan/USA) Expand demining to facilitate Afghan peace (AEI)

Michael Rubin The Afghan peace process continues amidst uncertainty about the speed and totality of American withdrawal, disappointment at Taliban noncompliance, and questions about where an intra-Afghan dialogue might...

(USA/Pandemic/Economics) Claims about farm bankruptcies do not justify increasing aid for farms (AEI)

Vincent H. Smith, Eric J. Belasco Throughout the pandemic, amidst stimulus package debates and worries about crushing federal deficits, farming interests have persistently, and on occasion...

(USA/Antitrust/Big Tech) 5 questions for Joshua D. Wright on antitrust and Big Tech (AEI)

 James Pethokoukis and Joshua D. Wright How has the American approach to antitrust evolved over the past 50 years? Will the government finally break up...

(South Korea/Iran) Resolving South Korea’s Iran conundrum (East Asia Forum)

Kyle Ferrier, KEI Iran’s seizure of the South Korean oil tanker the MT Hankuk Chemi in early January is undoubtedly linked to Tehran’s immobilised funds in Seoul....

(Vietnam) Idle leadership at Vietnam’s 13th Communist Party Congress (East Asia Forum)

Hien Do Benoit, CNAM and David Camroux, Sciences Po ‘Di bat bien, ung van bien’ — a phrase evoked by Ho Chi Minh in 1946...

(Hong Kong) Political repression and authoritarian legalism in Hong Kong (East Asia Forum)

Brendan Clift, University of Melbourne The recent round-up and arrest of 53 pro-democracy activists in China’s nominally-autonomous, semi-democratic Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was the latest escalation...

(Japan/Defence Spending) Japanese defence spending at the fiscal crossroads (East Asia Forum)

Yuki Tatsumi, Stimson Center Japan’s 2021 defence budget is set to be its largest ever, continuing a near decade-long trend set in motion by former...

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