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(USA/Africa) New Plane Key to Special Ops Vision for Africa, General Says (Defense One)

Marcus Weisgerber A new aircraft that can fly reconnaissance missions and bomb enemy forces is key to U.S. special forces’ future in Africa, the head...

(USA/Space) Don’t Downgrade Space (Defense One)

Dan Tomanelli Early indications from the Oval Office suggest that the Biden administration places less importance on space policy than did the Trump administration. This...

(USA/China) What the Fear of China Is Doing to American Science (Defense One)

Rory Truex In what is becoming a familiar scene in American higher education, a Chinese-born scientist at a high-profile university was recently arrested for his...

(USA) America Is (Sort of) Back (Project-Syndicate)

SHLOMO BEN-AMI From its botched pandemic response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s political dysfunction has lately been on stark...

(India) India’s Farm Laws Are a Global Problem (Project-Syndicate)

KAUSHIK BASU Market fundamentalism never works as well as actual markets do, because it offers “choices” that no one would willingly choose. The Indian government...

(Economic Policy) The Silent Revolution in Economic Policy (Project-Syndicate)

ROBERT SKIDELSKY With Western economies battered by COVID-19 and central banks running out of ammunition, fiscal policy is the only game in town. This should...

(Climate/Energy/Asia) 2021 Climate and Energy Trends in Asia (CSIS)

This week, Justin Wu (BloombergNEF) and Lachlan Carey (CSIS) take a tour of all things climate and energy related across Asia. They start with the...

(Europe/Trade and Technology Council) Europe’s Olive Branch? (CSIS)

William Reinsch Following the U.S. election last year, the European Commission launched a peace mission that appears to be an effort to reset the transatlantic...

(Myanmar) At least 6 journalists detained in Myanmar as coup government cracks down on press (CPJ)

Myanmar’s military government must stop detaining, harassing, and threatening journalists, and allow the media to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. https://cpj.org/2021/02/at-least-6-journalists-detained-in-myanmar-as-coup-government-cracks-down-on-press/

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