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RUSSIA – Russia and Its Near Abroad (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

Russia, which seeks to limit the scale of its responsibility, intervenes only when its policy is guaranteed to yield a positive result for Russian interests, writes Valdai Club Programme...

WORLD – Quo Vadis? (Andrey Bystritskiy, Valdai Discussion Club)

We are faced with the threat of a kind of “war of all against all”, a global, world civil war, a multidimensional matrix of...

TAIWAN – The year of unexpected successes in Taiwan (Lev Nachman, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/30/the-year-of-unexpected-successes-in-taiwan/

CHINA – Financing innovation in China (Xun Wang, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/29/financing-innovation-in-china/

SYRIA – Enclave governance: How to circumvent the Assad regime and safeguard Syria’s future (Ranj Alaaldin, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/enclave-governance-how-to-circumvent-the-assad-regime-and-safeguard-syrias-future/

SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia’s STC partners with Alibaba Cloud to provide public cloud services (Al Arabiya)

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) announced a new partnership with Alibaba Cloud, a cloud computing company and a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group, to leverage...

LEBANON – FBI found Beirut port blast caused by 500 tons of fertilizer, not 2,700 tons: PM Diab (Al Arabiya)

Lebanon’s outgoing premier Hassan Diab said Tuesday that an FBI investigation into an August 4 explosion at the Beirut port found it was caused...

CHINA/EUROPE – In dialogue with Omar Al-Ubaydli (Al Arabiya)

China hopes lengthy negotiations for an investment deal with the European Union can wrap up at an “early date”, a foreign ministry spokesman said...

SYRIA/RUSSIA/IRAN – Russia and Iran in Syria and Beyond: Challenges Ahead (RIAC)

This paper aims to analyze the pivotal points of the Middle Eastern crises and to which extent the interests of Moscow and Tehran overlap...

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