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The French Navy’s damaged nuclear sub is out at sea once more (Vivienne Machi, Defense News)

The French Navy’s nuclear submarine Perle has returned to sea following just about a year of work to repair its fire-damaged body and splice it together...

Germany, US plan major aerial drill to defend Europe (Vivienne Machi, Defense News)

Two Eurofighter aircraft belonging to the German Air Force sped down the runway on a perfectly autumnal October morning at Neuburg Air Base, about...

New radar kits abound for the Eurofighter fleet (Tom Kington, Defense News)

The first Kuwaiti Eurofighters with new electronically scanned radars onboard took to the skies in Italy in October for test flights, as engineers in...

How Taliban victory will reshape regional dynamics in Central Asia (Paul Stronski, East Asia Forum)

The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is transforming the regional landscape and unnerving neighbouring countries. Central Asian countries face migration flows, humanitarian challenges and political uncertainty. The post-American Afghanistan...

China and the United States can play a positive-sum game on the CPTPP (Cai Penghong, East Asia Forum)

China’s application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is prompting domestic and international discussion. People are asking questions about...

Indonesian democracy needs a moderate Nahdlatul Ulama (Alexander R. Arifianto, East Asia Forum)

Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), recently announced that its long-postponed national congress (Muktamar) will finally be held from 23 to 25 December 2021 in...

States under time crunch to provide housing assistance: How to fix it (Gabriel R. Sanchez, Brookings)

Due to the pandemic-driven economic recession, the federal government has been forced to respond to the sharp rise in housing challenges Americans have faced....

Why China is cracking down on its online fandom obsessed youth (David Bandurski, Brookings)

Echoing Mao Zedong before him, Xi Jinping regularly stresses the Party’s domination of all aspects of life. “East, west, south, north and center, Party,...

How the structure of global aid and development finance is changing (Akihiko Nishio and Gaiv Tata, Brookings)

COVID-19 has delayed plans and progress worldwide, especially in developing countries, where complex challenges existed even before the pandemic. For these countries, external finance—particularly...

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