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(Somalia) Somalia May Not Survive State Department’s Support for Rigged Elections (Michael Rubin, The National Interest)

In a region once known as the epicenter of piracy, it is a new era. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/somalia-may-not-survive-state-department%E2%80%99s-support-rigged-elections-176658

(USA/Russia/Iran) Can Russia Help Biden Get a Comprehensive Agreement with Iran? (Hanna Notte, Hamidreza Azizi, The National Interest)

Though Moscow’s stance on Iran’s regional activities might be ambivalent, Russian competition with Iran in Syria, as well as their military-defense cooperation, will afford...

(USA/Pandemic) Joe Biden’s Coronavirus Relief Spending Plan: What To Make Of It (Milton Ezrati, The National Interest)

Joe Biden has put together a $1.9 trillion plan to relieve the pandemic’s economic stains. But will it work? https://nationalinterest.org/feature/joe-biden%E2%80%99s-coronavirus-relief-spending-plan-what-make-it-176654

(Russia/West/Alexey Navalny) What the Navalny Arrest Means for Russia and the West (Mark Episkopos, The National Interest)

Overt Western threats in the Navalny affair risk having a paradoxical effect on Russian civil society: with every subsequent demand from Brussels or Washington,...

(China/Africa) Is Democracy China’s Achilles’ Heel in Africa? (Michael Rubin, The National Interest)

Somaliland is among the few African states that has best resisted mainland China’s efforts to tie it into Beijing’s orbit. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/democracy-china%E2%80%99s-achilles%E2%80%99-heel-africa-176667

(USA/US Military) Above Politics: The U.S. Military Will Always Defend the Constitution (Matthew R. Crouch, Ron C. Fairbanks, Christopher P. Mulder, The National Interest)

The American people can have confidence that their servicemen and women will continue to serve regardless of who is president, as has been the...

(USA/Trump Impeachment) Will the Senate Really Take Up Donald Trump’s Impeachment? (Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest)

A swift move by Pelosi to start the impeachment trial raises questions for Democrats who are prioritizing the president-elect’s agenda. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-senate-really-take-donald-trumps-impeachment-176700

(South Korea) South Korea’s ongoing quest for security independence (Peter Banseok Kwon, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/20/south-koreas-ongoing-quest-for-security-independence/

(China/USA) Dual circulation is a strategic process, not a theory (Andrew Sheng, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/20/dual-circulation-is-a-strategic-process-not-a-theory/

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