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COVID-19 and Japan’s long-awaited digital transformation (Jun Mukoyama, East Asia Forum)

A newly established digital agency was unveiled in Japan on 1 September 2021. The agency, located in an Akasaka skyscraper, is unprecedented in every...

What’s next for poverty reduction policies in China? (Maria Ana Lugo, Martin Raiser, and Ruslan Yemtsov, Brookings)

Earlier this year China’s government announced that it had eradicated absolute poverty, measured against a standard equivalent to $2.30 per person per day applied...

The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty (Jason Jabbari, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Brookings)

With COVID-19’s disruptions in employment, child care, and education, it is unsurprising that child poverty substantially increased in 2020—roughly 1.2 million more children were living...

Nuclear submarines increase Australia’s need for speed (Michael Shoebridge, The Strategist)

Image: US Department of Defense The world’s gotten more dangerous—and quickly. And while nuclear submarines from the new AUKUS partnership will give Australia a powerful long-term deterrent, this...

What’s wrong with calling the Melbourne protests ‘far right’? (Elise Thomas, The Strategist)

Image: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images. Over the past week there has been a great deal of debate about who exactly has been storming through Melbourne’s streets. It’s...

Far from breaking with the past, AUKUS advances Australia’s commitment to collective defence (Ashley Townshend, The Strategist)

Image: Department of Defence Canberra’s announcement that it will acquire nuclear-powered submarines through its new defence pact with London and Washington, AUKUS, has generated considerable scrutiny. The decision...

Taiwan’s COVID-19 vaccine struggles (Yves Tiberghien and Jackie Jiaqi Zhao, East Asia Forum)

On 23 August, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen became the first world leader to receive a brand-new vaccine conceived and made in Taiwan — Medigen Vaccine Biologics...

Malaysia’s rapid vaccination can’t outrun its COVID-19 failures (Wei Aun Yap, East Asia Forum)

In the 1930s, France built an impressive defensive border — the Maginot Line — to repel a German invasion. A technological wonder at the...

The Indo-Pacific, the Quad and the reality of Chinese power (Kerry Brown, East Asia Forum)

The idea of a coherent territory called the Indo-Pacific has been appealing to strategists for some years, but it is no coincidence that the...
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