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Early Warning Brief: Did Xi Jinping Secure “Leader for Life” Status at the Sixth Plenum? (Willy Wo-Lap Lam, The Jamestown Foundation)

The words “leader for life” do not appear in the communique summarizing the Resolution on History passed at the Sixth Plenum of the 19th...

A Strategic Compass for Europe (Josep Borrell, Project-Syndicate)

A compass helps one find one’s way, and the “Strategic Compass” that I have drafted at the behest of the European Council will serve...

The Rise of Intangible Capitalism (Eric Hazan, Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake, Project-Syndicate)

In a 2014 book, the Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald argued that the most important societal endowment is the ability to learn....

Update: Xi, Biden to hold virtual meeting, ‘positive sign’ for improving fraught ties (Liu Xin and Zhang Hui, Global Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Joe Biden via video link on the morning of November 16 (Beijing Time), Chinese Foreign...

Pakistan’s looming water crisis (Aneel Salman, East Asia Forum)

In 2025, Pakistan may face an acute water crisis. To avoid this outcome, Pakistan must frame a rational, politically unbiased and holistic water policy that...

Anger, betrayal, and humiliation: how veterans feel about the withdrawal from Afghanistan (William A. Galston, Brookings)

In the wake of the chaotic U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, many observers believed that the memory would quickly fade as Americans...

Greening the recovery from COVID-19 crisis in the Western Balkans (Grzegorz Peszko, Richard Record, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, and Simon David Ellis, Brookings)

COVID-19 hit the countries of the Western Balkans hard. All six economies—Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia—were in deep recessions...

The geoeconomics of climate finance (Akshay Mathur, Mannat Jaspal, ORF)

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that an annual investment of US $2.4 trillion is needed in the energy sector alone until 2035...

Achieving net-zero through just transition (Chandra Bhushan, ORF)

The global community has limited time to act on climate change mitigation if it wants to avoid the irreversible, catastrophic impacts. Two reports, this...

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