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US Air Force Developing Combat Tanker-Airlifter that Can Land on Water (Tara Copp, Defense One)

A rendering of a twin float amphibious modification to an MC-130J Commando II. COURTESY PHOTO The U.S. Air Force is working on detachable pontoons and other...

Indonesian VAT reform should level the playing field for women (Citra Handayani Nasruddin, East Asia Forum)

The Indonesian government and the House of Representatives have been discussing a multi-tariff value-added tax (VAT) scheme as part of a proposed overhaul of...

China’s bid to join Pacific trade pact a strategic opportunity for Canberra (Shiro Armstrong, East Asia Forum)

China has applied to join the 11 member Asia Pacific trade pact that includes Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore, all of whom have a...

Academic experts believe that Middle East politics are actually getting worse (Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch, Brookings)

Ayear after the Abraham Accords came into effect, what do scholars of the Middle East think about the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE...

I hadn’t the slightest idea my life would change after 9/11 (Shadi Hamid, Brookings)

I hadn’t the slightest idea that my life would change. It was two weeks into my freshman year of college. I was living away...

How Arkansas implemented its computer science education program (Brian Fowler and Emiliana Vegas, Brookings)

Computer science (CS) education helps students acquire skills such as computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, among others. It has been linked with higher rates...

Why schools still need a remote option to mitigate COVID-19 (Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings)

COVID cases are on the rise again – this time hitting K-12 students, especially those who are unvaccinated, under 12, and back in the...

AUKUS and the CPTPP: It’s all about China (Ian Hill, The Interpreter)

China’s application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) just hours after announcement of the new tripartite AUKUS (Australia, United...

Australia-India trade deal: An early harvest or cherry picking? (Justin Brown, The Interpreter)

There is a new mood of optimism around the most recent effort to revive the Australia-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) being spearheaded by...

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