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China’s “digital natives”: How the post-’90s generation is transforming the country (Cheng Li, Brookings)

The digital revolution has transformed all lives in China, but it has affected most profoundly the post-1990s age cohort, which is made up of...

The risks of an uneven economic recovery in an unequal world (Ambar Narayan, Alexandru Cojocaru, Miriam Muller, and David Newhouse, Brookings)

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world’s most vulnerable populations through lost lives, health, jobs, incomes, assets, and education. The World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone...

How tech platforms fuel U.S. political polarization and what government can do about it (Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, Grant Sims, Brookings)

As both members of Congress and federal law enforcement agencies investigate the origins and execution of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,...

Playing a weak hand well Jordan’s Hashemite kings and the United States (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

The American interaction with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has revolved around two men, King Hussein, and his son King Abdallah. Both have ruled...

Supporting families supports the economy: Social nets are economic foundations (Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Peg Burchinal, Brookings)

“Why I won’t support spending another 3.5 trillion… There’s not a rush to do that right now. We don’t have an urgency. Don’t you...

Besieged Huawei won’t give up overseas plans, even if crackdown continues (Global Times)

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's return to China after more than 1,000 days in captivity in Canada is a major development, which displays China's ability...

Macao to rise as regional financial hub: local banker (Li Qiaoyi, Global Times)

There's a good chance that Macao is set to rise as a regional financial hub, a local bank executive said on Monday, expecting a...

CPEC-extension and de-dollarization could help Afghanistan out from under US thumb (Yasir Habib Khan, Global Times)

As agent of chaos, when the US set its sinister foot in Afghanistan, it created chaos and when it left, created further chaos by...

HK business environment recovers after national security law: govt report (Global Times)

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Monday issued its first business environment report since the city's return to the motherland, saying...

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