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China – China’s New Biosecurity Law Gives Limited Insight into Government Priorities and Next Steps (The Jamestown Foundation)

James Haynes The new Biosecurity Law (, Shengwu anquan fa, hereafter “Law”) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) went into effect on the country’s sixth...

Australia/China – Australia’s luck in handling Chinese trade coercion (East Asia Forum)

James Laurenceson, UTS More than one year after Chinese authorities began using trade to punish Australia over political disagreements, it seems Beijing has been able...

Southeast Asia – Depoliticising Southeast Asia’s forest fire pollution (East Asia Forum)

Jayaprakash Murulitharan, University of Cambridge, Helena Varkkey, University of Malaya and Matthew Ashfold, University of Nottingham Malaysia The almost annual haze in southern Southeast Asia...

China – China’s quiet diplomacy behind the ‘wolf warriors’ (East Asia Forum)

Connor Fiddler, GWU When thinking about Chinese foreign policy, it is not unusual to conjure up images of stoic generals or ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats bent...

USA – How should we address the US’s history of slavery and racism? Here’s what Americans think (Brookings)

William A. Galston Discussion of racial issues has intensified in recent years, with vigorous debates emerging at the national and local level over once obscure...

USA – Beyond ‘food deserts’: America needs a new approach to mapping food insecurity (Brookings)

Caroline George and Adie Tomer The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the shortcomings within the country’s social safety net— especially in the case of food security....

Somaliland – Building on Somaliland’s Successful Elections (Crisis Group)

Somaliland’s parliamentary and local council elections represented rare good news in the troubled Horn of Africa. Smoothly run and fairly peaceful, the long-delayed 31...

Turkey – Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power (Crisis Group)

Nigar Göksel Since 2016, when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan survived a coup attempt, the Turkish leader has added a military edge to his foreign policy....

Belarus – Belarus’s creature of crisis: Two heads, one body (ECFR)

Pavel Slunkin In the decades since Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s first and only fair presidential election victory in 1994, two Belaruses have coexisted inside the same borders....
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