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Food Systems – Food Systems on the Edge (Project-Syndicate)

Barbara Unmüßig Those most affected by the negative consequences of large-scale industrialized food production must play a vital part in discussing how to transform it....
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Balkans – The Dangerous Balkan Standstill (Project-Syndicate)

CARL BILDT Even after a quarter-century of relative peace, the Balkans have yet to achieve the lasting stability that was hoped for when the region's...
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Afghanistan/China/USA – China’s Involvement in Afghanistan: A Conversation with Laurel Miller (CSIS)

Bonny Lin On this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Laurel Miller joins us to discuss the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and to assess China’s next...
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Afghanistan/USA – The Taliban Takeover: Plan Now for the Next Crisis in Afghanistan (CSIS)

Anthony H. Cordesman The U.S. already faces a crisis over managing its evacuation from Afghanistan, over how to treat Afghans that aided the U.S. in...
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Afghanistan – The Taliban now controls the Afghan economy. Here’s what that means (Atlantic Council)

Alex Zerden I joined the war in Afghanistan in its seventeenth year as the Treasury Department’s financial attaché at the US embassy in Kabul, landing...
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Afghanistan/USA – Vietnam’s lessons for the Afghanistan failure: Don’t count out US leadership just yet (Atlantic Council)

Daniel Fried The August 15 images of helicopters lifting fleeing diplomats from the US embassy in Kabul—like those of a similar calamity in Saigon in...
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Cybersecurity – Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR Hamburg's data protection agency...
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Cybersecurity – US agencies warn of flaw in BlackBerry software (Al Jazeera)

A cybersecurity flaw in software designed by BlackBerry Ltd could put at risk cars and medical equipment that use it and expose highly sensitive...
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Pakistan – Pakistani startup sees the country’s largest funding round (Al Jazeera, Bloomberg)

Faseeh Mangi and Chris Kay Airlift Technologies Pvt. has scored the largest single private funding round in Pakistan’s history ahead of plans to enter overseas...
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Afghanistan/India – India’s midnight evacuation from Afghanistan, escorted by Taliban (Al Jazeera)

Outside the main iron gate of the Indian embassy in Kabul, a group of Taliban fighters waited, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade...
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Afghanistan/USA – US freezes Afghan central bank’s assets of $9.5bn (Al Jazeera, Bloomberg)

Saleha Mohsin The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation...
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China – Baidu launches L5 self-driving robocar claiming its vision for intelligent vehicles of the future (Global Times)

Li Yanhong, also known as Robin Li, CEO and founder of Chinese tech giant Baidu, launched a robot vehicle during Baidu World conference on...
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China/Tajikistan/Afghanistan – China, Tajikistan conduct joint anti-terrorism drill amid regional changes after Afghan political reshuffle (Global Times)

China and Tajikistan started a two-day joint anti-terrorism drill in Dushanbe on Wednesday, aiming to strengthen coordination of anti-terrorism forces of the two countries...
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China – Xi stresses promoting common prosperity amid high-quality development, forestalling major financial risks (Global Times, Xinhua)

President Xi Jinping Tuesday stressed efforts to promote common prosperity in the pursuit of high-quality development and coordinate work on forestalling major financial risks....
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Afghanistan/China/USA/Russia – China, US, Russia share consensus in Afghanistan, but Washington ‘should correct its mistake to exchange cooperation’ (Global Times)

Yang Sheng and Liu Xin The US has discussed the situation in Afghanistan with China, Russia, Pakistan and its European allies on Tuesday to seek cooperation following...
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China – Personal information protection law under third reading, to prevent big data abuse, excessive data collection (Global Times)

Deng Xiaoci Chinese lawmakers have come one step closer to rolling out the country's first law on personal information protection, in bid to introduce legal regulations...
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