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USA – Trump and Section 230: What to Know (Anshu Siripurapu, CFR)

President Trump has threatened to veto a major defense funding bill over a law that protects social media companies from liability for what their...

ARAB SPRING – The Arab Spring at Ten Years: What’s the Legacy of the Uprisings? (Kali Robinson, CFR)

Ten years on, the lives of people in Arab Spring countries have improved in certain aspects but worsened in others. CFR.org visualizes the changes...

USA – What to expect from a Biden FCC on Section 230, net neutrality, and 5G (Darrell M. West, Nicol Turner Lee, and Caitlin...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/12/03/what-to-expect-from-a-biden-fcc-on-section-230-net-neutrality-and-5g/

US Supply Chains – How to build more secure, resilient, next-gen U.S. supply chains (Eleftherios Iakovou and Chelsea C. White III, Brookings)

Tens of thousands of medical supply packages are sorted daily for regional and international shipping from the DHL Supply Chain facility in Southaven, Mississippi,...

DEMOCRACY – The West must live up to its own principles on democracy (Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/03/the-west-must-live-up-to-its-own-principles-on-democracy/

USA – There are too many ways to lose unemployment compensation (Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, and Stephanie Lu, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/03/there-are-too-many-ways-to-lose-unemployment-compensation/

SOUTH KOREA – Chaebol reform still an uphill battle after Lee Kun-hee (Juliette Schwak, East Asia Forum)

Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee passed away on 25 October this year. Hailed for transforming Samsung from a producer of cheap manufactured products into South...

USA/ROK – Resetting US–ROK security cooperation under Biden (Anthony Rinna, East Asia Forum)

Wasting no time outlining its position on the US Indo-Pacific alliance network, the incoming Biden administration has asserted that it plans to place renewed emphasis on...

EGYPT – Egypt releases rights activists after global pressure (Al Jazeera)

Egypt released three staff members of a leading human rights organisation following a concerted international campaign to free them – including concern expressed by...

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