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USA/UAE – US Senate backs massive arms sales to UAE after Trump veto threat (Al Jazeera)

The United States Senate has defeated an effort to block the Trump administration’s sale of $23bn in advanced fighter jets and drones to the...

NIGERIA – It is time to end impunity in Nigeria (Olamide Samuel, Al Jazeera)

October 2020 will be remembered in history as the month in which the true scale of the moral bankruptcy, institutional decay and lack of...

PAKISTAN/INDIA/KASHMIR – Pakistan says two troops killed by Indian fire in Kashmir (Al Arabiya)

Security personnel run patrolling near the site of a gunbattle in Kangan area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district on June 3, 2020. (AFP) Pakistan’s military...

USA – Trump administration plans to execute five inmates before Biden takes office (Al Arabiya)

Brandon Bernard, a former Texas street-gang member on death row for a crime he committed when he was 18. (Twitter) The Trump administration is planning...

USA/POLAND – US Army’s V Corps Forward Command Inaugurated in Poland (Jakub Bornio, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 20, authorities ceremonially inaugurated the formation of the Forward Command of the United States Army’s V Corps (HQ-F) in its new location,...

BELARUS – Belarusian Crisis Through the Prism of Virtual Realities (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

At the December 2 virtual summit of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), President Alyaksandr Lukashenka once again expressed his view that the...

RUSSIA/IRAQ – Russia and Iraq Deepen Energy, Military Ties (John C. K. Daly, The Jamestown Foundation)

As the United States hastens its drawdown of troops in Iraq before the January 20 inauguration of President-elect Joseph Biden, Russia is seeking to...

USA/SOUTHEAST ASIA – The challenges in resetting US–Southeast Asia relations (Ja Ian Chong, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/10/the-challenges-in-resetting-us-southeast-asia-relations/

CHINA – Social cohesion boosts rural China’s COVID-19 response (Xiao Tan, Mark Yaoling Wang, Yao Song, Tianyang Liu, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/09/social-cohesion-boosts-rural-chinas-covid-19-response/

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