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China’s coal commitments are not enough (Chen Gang, East Asia Forum)

At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad. But concerns...

How USICA will boost US technological competitiveness (Julia Voo, East Asia Forum)

In June 2021, the US Senate unanimously adopted the US$250 billion US Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) detailing how the US government plans to outcompete China...

COVID-19 exposes India’s fragile federalism (Niranjan Sahoo and Ambar Kumar Ghosh, East Asia Forum)

Emergency and disaster management demands a command-and-control approach. When COVID-19 swept the world in early 2020, most projected a difficult time ahead for countries...

Financing ASEAN disaster management and resilience (Lina Gong, S Nanthini, East Asia Forum)

Between 2019 and 2020, Southeast Asia reported 530 natural hazards — from earthquakes to cyclones and floods. COVID-19 has significantly heightened the financial constraints on the...

AUKUS and Australia’s relations in the Pacific (Soli Middleby, Anna Powles, Joanne Wallis, East Asia Forum)

The announcement of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom on 16 September 2021 suggests that Australia has chosen its...

Who’s making the grade on climate change education ambition? (Christina Kwauk, Brookings)

The release of the 6th IPCC report on the physical science of climate change this year raised the alarm around the urgency to act on the...

Beyond the $100 billion: financing a sustainable and resilient future (Amar Bhattacharya, Nicholas Stern, LSE)

In this policy note Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern set out where we are on developed countries’ climate finance pledge to developing countries and...

Cyberbullying and bystander intervention (Melissa Brown, Rashawn Ray, and Fred Dews, Brookings)

Seventy percent of people report that they have done something abusive to someone else online, and a majority report being cyberbullied themselves. Nearly 90...

House Passes Infrastructure Bill, Postpones Vote On Build Back Better (Igor Bobic and Arthur Delaney, HuffPost)

House Democrats finally approved a bipartisan bill late Friday to fix roads and bridges, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk months after the legislation passed...

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