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Covid in Asia: the immediate payoff of donating vaccines (Alyssa Leng)

Covid-19 has loomed large over everything again this year and the new Omicron variant is a warning that there is still plenty of fight...

Twenty years of BRICS (Stephen Grenville, The Interpreter)

It is 20 years since Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill invented the BRIC economic grouping – Brazil, Russia, India and China – with South...

FOCAC: No mention of controversies while China sticks to a game plan (Cornelia Tremann, The Interpreter)

From 29–30 November, the eighth edition of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together the foreign ministers and high-level attendees...

How China wrested control of the Congo’s critical minerals (David Uren, The Strategist)

China’s system of bankrolling its state companies may be entrenching great inefficiency in its economy but has delivered it unchallenged dominance in the critical...

The Taliban are losing the fight against Islamic State (Oved Lobel, The Strategist)

In what is becoming a monthly phenomenon, Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan (Islamic State Khorasan, or IS-K) has topped all of its global provinces in terms...

The Korean way (East Asia Forum)

Aspirations for greater autonomy and self-reliance are driving significant changes to Seoul’s political and security postures amid intensifying regional tensions, and serve as a...

Tough tests for South Korea’s next president (Hyung-A Kim, East Asia Forum)

With less than four months to South Korea’s presidential election on 9 March 2022, the contest is turning into a quasi-life-or-death round of Squid...

Tunisia’s UGTT union calls for early polls in absence of plan (Al Jazeera)

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union has called for early elections, saying it was concerned for the country’s democratic gains because of the president’s reluctance to...

Israel’s Bennett urges hard line against Iran at nuclear talks (Al Jazeera)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged world powers to take a hard line against Iran in negotiations aimed at reviving an international nuclear deal. Bennett...

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