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Infrastructure Development in Tibet and its Implications for India (Suyash Desai, The Jamestown Foundation)

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) considers Tibet an intrinsic part of Chinese territory, which it has controlled since the early 1950s. When the...

Pakistan’s Deal with Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan: Statesmanship or Surrender? (Syed Fazl-e-Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 1, supporters of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) abandoned their two-week long protests and marched to the Pakistani capital Islamabad after the group signed a...

Emerging Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Threats from Europe’s ‘Garage Extremists’ (Rueben Dass, The Jamestown Foundation)

In September 2021, a 26-year-old French national, influenced by far-right ideology, was arrested for having successfully manufactured four improvised explosive devices (IEDs) containing uranium...

Assassination Attempt against Prime Minister Al-Khadimi Highlights Intra-Shia Divisions in Iraq (Rami Jameel, The Jamestown Foundation)

A loud explosion was heard in the early hours of November 7 in the fortified area in Baghdad known as the “Green Zone.” This...

Moldova Uniquely Vulnerable to Russian Energy Servitude (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Moldova’s natural gas market has become physically accessible to non-Russian gas suppliers through the Romania-Moldova interconnector, the Iasi–Ungheni–Chisinau pipeline. Built and operated by Romanian...

Rebuilding the Infrastructure of Sino-American Relations (Minghao Zhao, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden has been basking in the glow of his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which he signed into law on November 15. But...

Whipping Up America’s Inflation Bogeyman (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The headline chosen for Harvard economist Jason Furman’s November 15 commentary in the Wall Street Journal was both apt and sad. It was apt, because it repurposed then-President Gerald Ford’s...

Beware of Japan’s “New Capitalism” (Takatoshi Ito, Project-Syndicate)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida survived the general election on October 31, which came just weeks after his arrival in office as the new leader of...

White Paper on China’s Computing Power Development Index (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT; 中国信息通信研究院; 中国信 通院), CSET)

The following white paper, issued by a PRC state-run think tank, calculates China's total computing power as 135 Exabytes. The white paper also compares...

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