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(China/USA/South China Sea) China’s Use of U.S. Satellite Communications Technology in the South China Sea (The Jamestown Foundation)

Zachary Haver In recent years, the maritime law enforcement (MLE) forces of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have dominated the contested waters of the...

(Ukraine/China) Ukraine’s China Policy: A (Not so) Delicate Balance (The Jamestown Foundation)

Maksym Bugriy Reporting on the saga of Chinese efforts to purchase Ukraine’s strategic Motor Sich aerospace production company frequently casts Kyiv as a weak “pawn”...

(Tajikistan/Afghanistan/China) Porosity of Tajik-Afghan Border Making Beijing’s Involvement in Region More Ominous (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble In most parts of the world, the lines on maps separating countries are true borders. That is, they are controlled by the governments...

(Russia/NATO) Russian Aerospace Forces Journal Recommends Preventive Strike Against NATO (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy, visited Moscow in person last week (February 5)—still highly unusual during...

(South Africa) Solving South Africa’s unemployment: Could tourism, horticulture, agro-processing, or logistics hold the key? (Brookings)

Christopher Rooney and Zaakhir Asmal Since the onset of democratic rule in 1994, South Africa has experienced modest reductions in household poverty levels, coupled with high and rising...

(Bangladesh/Extreme Poverty) How an evidence-based program from Bangladesh could scale to end extreme poverty (Brookings)

Lindsay Coates Extreme poverty has risen sharply due to the economic turmoil caused by COVID-19. After decades of progress in international development, up to 150 million...

(Data) The disturbing implications of increasingly narrow political ad targeting (Brookings)

Katie Joseff, Joel Carter, and Samuel Woolley In a world unbridled data collection and a digital economy built on its targeted use, some technology executives are beginning...

(Myanmar) The genie will not return to the bottle: Understanding the pro-democracy protests in Myanmar (Brookings)

Edmund Malesky Myanmar’s experiment with partial democracy allowed the genie to escape from the bottle, and the country’s citizens have no intention of putting it...

(USA/Real Estate) The real estate industry is divesting from Donald Trump—but divesting from white supremacy requires more (Brookings)

Tracy Hadden Loh and Andre M. Perry This week, former President Donald Trump is facing his second impeachment trial, this time for his role in the failed...

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