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China’s Rapid Economic and Cultural Expansion in Georgia Troubles Some in Tbilisi (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

At a time when the efforts of Russia, Turkey and Iran to expand their influence in the South Caucasus have received attention internationally, the...

Kremlin Publicizes Its View on Europe’s Energy Crisis (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Kremlin is skillfully exploiting a European energy crisis caused in part by flawed European policies. On October 6, at the TTF Hub in...

Russian Authorities Expand and Tighten Clampdown on Opposition (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 28, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB—one of the main successor organizations of the Soviet KGB) published an official order, Number 376,...

India’s Cautious and Calculated Approach to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan (Animesh Roul, The Jamestown Foundation)

More than a month after Taliban forces stormed Afghanistan, the self-proclaimed Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan (IEA) has yet to gain international political recognition. All...

Houthi Militants in Ansar Allah Move Toward Marib in Yemen (Michael Horton, The Jamestown Foundation)

After a brief lull in fighting, the rebels of the Yemeni Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, are closer than they have ever been to surrounding...

South Korea’s growing partisanship over relations with the United States (Anthony Rinna, East Asia Forum)

Ahead of South Korea’s presidential election in March 2022, Seoul’s balancing act between China and the United States has taken on a distinctly partisan...

China’s geostrategic engagement in a new Afghanistan (BM Jain, East Asia Forum)

China is determined to establish a geostrategic foothold in the new Taliban-led Afghanistan. A decade ago, China forayed into Afghanistan’s strategic space by inking...

Record Japanese government debt risk post-COVID-19 (Ippei Fujiwara, East Asia Forum)

COVID-19 has had a substantial adverse effect on the Japanese economy. Lockdowns and the suspension of business activities spurred supply shocks, and drops in...

Increasing droughts and floods on the African continent (Tamara White, Brookings)

On October 6, the World Bank Group released the October edition of its Africa’s Pulse report, its biannual macroeconomic analysis for sub-Saharan Africa. This edition...

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