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Opportunities and Challenges for China’s Plans in Afghanistan (Syed Fazl-e Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)

In a September meeting between China’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu and Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, China declared that its first...

Far From a Panopticon, Social Credit Focuses on Legal Violations (Jeremy Daum, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two new pieces of draft authority on China’s social credit system, directories of data inputs and punitive outputs from the General Office of the...

In China’s Shifting Historical Narrative, “War of Resistance” with Japan Retains Key Role (John S. Van Oudenaren, The Jamestown Foundation)

Last month, China commemorated the 90th anniversary of the September 18 incident— the false flag railway explosion that sparked Imperial Japan’s invasion of Manchuria...

Cronache italiane – Benvenuti al bar Italia (Marco Emanuele)

Il bar Italia è sempre aperto, attività ormai diventata esercizio di non-stile. Di fronte alla gravosità dei problemi planetari, che cascano senza bussare ai...

Delta and the cost of border closures in Southeast Asia (Jayant Menon, East Asia Forum)

The Delta variant of COVID-19 has become dominant in Southeast Asia, calling into question the current combination of mobility restrictions at and within borders....

Senate hearing opens the door to individual lawsuits in privacy legislation (Cameron F. Kerry, Brookings)

When the general counsel of any publicly-traded company is willing to consider private rights of action—i.e. individual lawsuits to enforce statutory privacy rights—as part...

Working toward responsible competition with China (Patricia M. Kim, Brookings)

The announcement that Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will meet in a virtual summit before the end of the year have raised prospects that Washington...

Repackaging Pandora: How Russia’s information apparatus is handling a massive leak of data on offshore finance (Jessica Brandt, Brookings)

Almost immediately after the authors of the “Pandora Papers” report released it on October 3, revelations of wrongdoing by powerful public figures, including in...

Addressing the perception premium for sustainable development in Africa (Hippolyte Fofack, Brookings)

The pandemic downturn has heightened one of the gravest challenges facing Africa on its development path—the high costs of perception premiums—the overinflated risks perennially assigned...

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