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China’s BRI continues to remain popular amongst Africans despite intense backlash (Abhishek Mishra, ORF)

China’s role in African development is often contested and tends to evoke mixed feelings. Its role can be located anywhere between a provider of...

Road emission control: Electrifying personal mobility in India (Akhilesh Sati, Lydia Powell, Vinod Kumar Tomar, ORF)

Indians travel nearly 5,000 kilometres (km) each year, a threefold increase since 2000. Vehicle ownership per person has grown five‐fold since 2000, with particularly...

As Air India flies to the Tatas, a brief history of India’s biggest policy failure (Gautam Chikermane, ORF)

As the nation heaves a sigh of fiscal relief and the burden of financial waste in one of India’s worst-performing public sector enterprises (PSEs),...

Why Not Navalny? Nobel Committee Honors Journalists Over Politicians (Andrei Kolesnikov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

In the offices of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose chief editor Dmitry Muratov is the latest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, there is a wall...

Cronache Italiane – Arresti democratici (Marco Emanuele)

Ciò che è successo ieri a Roma chiama tutti a ripensare la sostanza democratica. Condannare è il minimo che si possa fare ma, evidentemente,...

Uzbekistan on the Path Towards Openness and Change (Yuri Vasilyev, Valdai Discussion Club)

A lot depends on how clearly peaceful interaction in Central Asia and around it will be re-established, in a way that’s acceptable for all parties, writes Yuri Vasilyev, Special correspondent for the...

Après Nous, le Deluge? Afghanistan after the Withdrawal of US Troops (Andrey Sushentsov, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is becoming obvious that after the “Afghan exodus” a real war of compromising materials began in Washington. The State Department blamed the Pentagon, the Pentagon — intelligence, and intelligence...

China Pathfinder: Annual Scorecard (Daniel H. Rosen, Thilo Hanemann, Rachel Lietzow, Ryan Featherston, Josh Lipsky, Niels Graham, Rhodium Group)

China Pathfinder is an initiative from the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center and Rhodium Group that seeks to measure China’s system relative to advanced market...

Greece and France give European strategic autonomy a shot (Katerina Sokou, Atlantic Council)

Decades from now, historians may agree with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s description of the strategic defense agreement signed last week between France and Greece as...

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