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PHILIPPINES – Were the Philippines’ COVID-19 responses sufficient? (Jose Ramon G Albert, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/23/were-the-philippines-covid-19-responses-sufficient/

CHINA – How China’s state serves the Party (Kerry Brown, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/22/how-chinas-state-serves-the-party/

PANDEMIC/CULTURE SHOCK – Post-Pandemic Culture Shock (Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA Center)

The coronavirus pandemic has created a new kind of culture shock. It has affected essential and highly personal elements of many people’s lives within...

CHINA/DIGITAL SILK ROAD INITIATIVE – Assessing China’s Digital Silk Road Initiative (CFR)

As part of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the biggest infrastructure undertaking in the world, Beijing has launched the Digital Silk Road (DSR). Announced in...

USA / CYBER CONFUSION – Assessing President Trump’s Legacy of Cyber Confusion (Brandon Valeriano, CFR)

Things did not end well for the Trump’s administration’s cybersecurity efforts. After Chris Krebs, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),...

PHILIPPINES – ‘Caught on TV’: Philippines police officer charged over shootings (Al Jazeera)

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sought to distance himself from alleged abuses by law enforcers under his watch, after a national outcry over the...

HONG KONG’S EXILED PROTESTERS – The lingering trauma of Hong Kong’s exiled protesters (Hsiuwen Liu, Al Jazeera)

For months, after fleeing to Taiwan from the front lines of the Hong Kong protests, Ted was haunted by a recurring nightmare. He dreamed...

USA – Black US Air Force service members face discrimination: Report (Al Jazeera)

Black service members in the United States Air Force are far more likely to be investigated, arrested, face disciplinary actions and be discharged for...

AFGHANISTAN – At least five killed in Kabul car bomb blast (Al Jazeera)

At least five people, including four doctors, were killed after a magnetic bomb attached to their car exploded in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/22/afghanistan-at-least-five-killed-two-wounded-in-car-explosion

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