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Fed should keep labor markets tight for a more inclusive economy (Anthony Barr and Kristen Broady, Brookings)

The United States Federal Reserve has a dual mandate from Congress: maintain price stability and pursue maximum employment. A new strategy announced in August 2020 by Federal Reserve...

How are people feeling in the “most dangerous place on Earth”? (Shelley Rigger, Lev Nachman, Chit Wai John Mok, and Nathan Kar Ming Chan,...

Taiwan got a burst of attention earlier this year when The Economist labeled the island “the most dangerous place on earth.” Many Taiwan residents...

The promise of services-led development (Gaurav Nayyar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, and Elwyn Davies, Brookings)

Manufacturing-led growth has been the central development paradigm for centuries, but it is time to shift the spotlight. The share of industry in total...

Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains (Ömer Taşpınar, Brookings)

There are some countries where a single issue can explain pretty much everything that is wrong with its domestic and foreign policy. Turkey’s Kurdish...

Local and national leaders must organize themselves better to build back better (Alan Berube and Mary Jean Ryan, Brookings)

Congressional negotiations continue over the size and contents of the reconciliation spending package and its relationship to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (better known as...

Moving beyond the US–China Cold War cliche (Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver – East Asia Forum)

A bipolar world is emerging as the US–China rivalry dominates virtually every aspect of international politics. Bipolarity tends to exaggerate ideological hostility and encourages...

What is driving China’s e-commerce growth? (Hsiao Chink Tang, ANU and Yuying Tang, NetEase Games – East Asia Forum)

China’s retail e-commerce market has been the largest in the world since 2013. Its sales grew 34-fold in the decade to 2020 compared to the...

China to promote ecological ‘red line’ program to countries along BRI (Zhang Hui, Global Times)

China's ecological "red line" program, widely hailed by foreign representatives at the COP15 meeting, is expected to help with global biodiversity conservation if applied...

UK, China share ‘unique opportunity’ to work together to protect planet, says UK envoy to China (Chen Qingqing and Zhang Hui, Global Times)

With the UK hosting COP26 and China hosting COP15 this year, the UK and China have a unique opportunity to work together to protect...

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