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(Qatar) Unresolved Issues Remain as Qatar Blockade Ends (Anchal Vohra, ORF)

Three years after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt embargoed trade and travel with Qatar, the blockade was lifted at the Gulf...

(USA/(Indo-Pacific) Biden and the Indo-Pacific – Will regional powers shape America’s approach? (Kashish Parpiani, Pratnashree Basu, ORF)

US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, recently outlined the worldview of the incoming administration. In a televised interview, Sullivan...

(Germany/Antisemitism) Germany’s Battles Between Light and the Darkness of Antisemitism (Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA Center)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Reports of antisemitic incidents continue to rise in Germany. Problems concerning Jews, Israel, the perception of the Holocaust, and other related issues...

(Turkey) Erdoğan’s Reckless Gambit: It’s Payback Time (Burak Bekdil, BESA Center)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US CAATSA sanctions on Turkey’s defense industry are now official. The costs to Turkey of its S-400 deal with Russia have been...

(China) Chinese cities lay plans for digital economy, experts urge careful planning (Wang Bozun and Qi Xijia, Global Times)

In the first week of 2021, several cities in China including Shenzhen and Suzhou released roadmaps for the development of the digital economy and...

(China) Baidu announces to found intelligent car company with Geely (Xie Jun, Global Times)

Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc announced on Monday that it would establish an intelligent car company in partnership with mainland auto firm Geely, a...

(China) Twin-seat variation & domestic engine-equipped version of J-20 make official appearances (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

A twin-seat variation of China's J-20 stealth fighter jet and a J-20 version equipped with a domestically made engine have been spotted for the...

(China/USA) Twitter’s decision to delete Chinese Embassy post on Xinjiang shows ‘hypocrisy’ of US ‘freedom of speech’ (Global Times)

A scholar from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has slammed the hypocrisy over so-called freedom of speech in the US and the West,...

(USA) Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JP Morgan to pause political donations (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. plan to pause all political contributions, joining a growing list of companies changing...

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