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‘Space oil tank truck’ makes debut at Airshow China, provides energy for satellites’ long-term operation (Global Times)

A refueling aircraft, known as a space oil tank truck, made its debut at Airshow China 2021 in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, which...

Increased China-EU dialogues help reduce misjudgment: FM (Global Times)

Coinciding with the retirement of strong China-EU ties supporter Angela Merkel and the snub of France in the AUKUS security pact which targets China's...

Radical Sanctions on Belarus Will Not Push Minsk Into Moscow’s Arms, Russian Experts Argue (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Angered by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive moves and desirous of being on the right side of history, Western governments have imposed increasingly tough sanctions on...

Is Serbia Preparing to Annex Kosovo’s North? (Margarita Assenova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tensions on the Serbian-Kosovo border have rapidly escalated, threatening to spiral into a renewed conflict in the Balkans. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has ordered...

The Taliban Takeover of Kabul and Implications for the India-Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Transit Corridor (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

The port of Chabahar—located on the Makran coast of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, near to the Gulf of Oman and at the mouth...

An airlift capability to match China’s strategic ambitions (Loro Horta, East Asia Forum)

While analysts give substantial attention to China’s expanding fleet of modern fighter jets, such as the J-20 and J-15, they are much less enamoured...

Reformulating ASEAN’s Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, East Asia Forum)

The waters of the Indo-Pacific are heating up, with Beijing’s increasing activities in Southeast Asia pushing the United States and its allies into a...

An update on the effect of Pandemic EBT on measures of food hardship (Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Brookings)

Over the past 18 months, the United States experienced the most rapid economic downturn in its history and the most severe pandemic in more than a...

11 facts on the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic (Mitchell Barnes, Lauren Bauer, and Wendy Edelberg, Brookings)

Despite the headwinds created by the Delta COVID-19 variant, the economy is recovering. Economic growth during the pandemic has generally surpassed consensus expectations while...

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