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(Germany/Indo Pacific) Germany’s Indo-Pacific vision: Building a multilateral world order with ASEAN (ThinkChina)

Jan Kliem German academic Jan Kliem says the Indo-Pacific that Germany envisions is neither unipolar nor bipolar, but led by multilateralism, which forms the key...

(China/Pandemic) Chinese academic: Why China’s ‘harsh’ counter-pandemic measures are valid (ThinkChina)

Deng Xize Putting ideology and biases aside, there was no unlawful coercion in China’s Covid-19 measures and no ethical redlines were breached, says Deng Xize....

(China/Domestic Market) How to build a ‘super-sized domestic market’ in China (ThinkChina)

Yang Danxu Even as China talks of a “dual circulation” system and building a “super-sized domestic market”, it seems that its population of 1.4 billion...

(USA/Small Businesses/Colorado) Overcoming bias in small business relief in Colorado (Brookings)

Reniya Dinkins and Michael Zhu Nearly 11 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the small businesses that are a crucial part of powering local economies are still extremely...

(USA/Pandemic) Preparing for the next pandemic: Early lessons from COVID-19 (Brookings)

Dante Disparte COVID-19 has caused more than 109 million confirmed cases, claimed more than 2.4 million lives, and even brought prosperous nations and well-run healthcare systems...

(USA/Middle Class) No time to spare: Exploring the middle class time squeeze (Brookings)

Tiffany N. Ford, Jennifer M. Silva, Morgan Welch, and Isabel V. Sawhill In the last few decades,  middle-class wages, especially for men,  have stagnated, and the middle class has experienced slower income...

(USA/Trade Agenda) What do we know about the Biden administration’s emerging trade policy? (Brookings)

David Dollar and Mary E. Lovely Global trade may not dominate the news in the early days of Joe Biden’s presidency, but it does factor into many...

(USA/Climate Change) Biden’s ‘green jobs’ mirage (AEI)

Brent Orrell, Mason M. Bishop President Biden finished his whirlwind first week in office with an executive order to tackle climate change. https://www.aei.org/articles/bidens-green-jobs-mirage/

(USA/Unemployment System/Technology) The unemployment system is broken. Technology alone won’t fix it (AEI)

Brent Orrell Responding to the horror stories of millions of jobless Americans struggling, and often failing, to register for unemployment benefits during the pandemic, Senator...

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