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ANTI-PANDEMIC TECHNOLOGY – The promise and peril of anti-pandemic technology (Heidi Tworek, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-promise-and-peril-of-anti-pandemic-technology/

MOCK COP26/QUALITY EDUCATION – To raise ambition at the Climate Summit, let’s promote quality education—especially for girls (Christina Kwauk and Lucia Fry, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/12/10/to-raise-ambition-at-the-climate-summit-lets-promote-quality-education-especially-for-girls/

USA/POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY REFORM – Police accountability reform is insufficient. To save lives, money, and time, states must diversify public safety services (Brandon P. Ruben,...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/12/10/police-accountability-reform-is-insufficient-to-save-lives-money-and-time-states-must-diversify-public-safety-services/

USA/AI OVERSIGHT – How the Biden administration should tackle AI oversight (Alex Engler, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-the-biden-administration-should-tackle-ai-oversight/

USA – How is Biden’s presidential transition going? (Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/how-is-bidens-presidential-transition-going/

CHINA/USA – China slaps visa curbs on US diplomats, NGOs visiting HK, Macau (Al Jazeera)

China has announced that it is revoking visa exemptions for US diplomatic passport holders visiting Hong Kong and Macau, after the United States imposed...

BANGLADESH/ROHINGYA/MYANMAR – UN expert wants scrutiny of conditions at Bhasan Char (Al Jazeera)

A United Nations human rights expert has called for an independent assessment on the conditions at Bhasan Char, the remote island in Bangladesh where...

SWITZERLAND/CHINA – Secretive Switzerland-China immigration deal fuels concern (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

Switzerland gave Chinese security agents free run inside its borders and the rest of Europe for five years as part of a secretive immigration...

BREXIT – Food prices to spike without EU trade deal, warn UK retailers (Al Jazeera)

With the prospects for a post-Brexit trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union looking increasingly precarious, the UK’s retail industry warned...
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