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Afghanistan/USA. Ex-UK PM Blair slams American ‘abandonment’ of Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who in 2001 took Britain into war in Afghanistan alongside the United States, condemned the “abandonment” of the...

Japan. Japan’s optional four-day week divides workers (East Asia Forum)

Naohiro Yashiro, Showa Women’s University In June 2021, Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy promoted plans for an optional four-day workweek in its annual...

Japan. Japan’s narrowing options on monetary easing (East Asia Forum)

Toshitaka Sekine, Hitotsubashi University More than eight years have passed since the Bank of Japan (BOJ) began its aggressive Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) program in...

Southeast Asia. Bridging geopolitics and infrastructure in Southeast Asia (East Asia Forum)

Kevin Chen, ACI For developing countries in Southeast Asia, growing global interest in their infrastructure needs has been cause for both excitement and concern. In...

China. Terrorists and their supporters are enemies of China (Global Times)

On Friday, a suicide bombing took place at the East Bay Road in the port of Gwadar in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan. The...

China. China achieves important breakthrough in halving rice growth cycle (Global Times)

China has achieved an important breakthrough in harvesting rice in controlled conditions only 60 days in a plant factory, halving the traditional growth cycle...

PLA Rocket Force holds live-fire drills, testing new-type conventional missiles (Global Times)

Liu Xuanzun The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force recently conducted live-fire drills in the deserts in Northwest China in which it launched two...

China/Tibet. World’s highest expressway opens to traffic (Global Times)

The world's highest expressway, running between the city of Nagqu and Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, went into operation on Saturday,...

Afghanistan/USA/Israel. The Lesson from the U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Israel Must Recognize the Limits of Superpower Support (JCPA)

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser The speed of the collapse of the Afghan government and its U.S.-backed security forces with their 300,000 troops and advanced equipment...

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