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Tunisia – Tunisia crisis: Clashes at parliament day after PM sacked – Live (Al Jazeera)

 Farah Najjar and Arwa Ibrahim write for Al Jazeera: Street clashes outside army-barricaded parliament, a day after President Kais Saied removed the prime minister and suspended parliament ...

Tunisia – Tunisia police storm Al Jazeera office in Tunis (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Tunisian police has stormed Al Jazeera’s bureau in the capital Tunis, expelling all the staff, after President Kais Saied late on...

Iran/Internet – Under pressure, Iranian MPs postpone internet restriction bill (Al Jazeera)

Maziar Motamedi writes for Al Jazeera: Iran’s parliament has suspended its review of a highly controversial bill that a minister, citizens and businesses say will...

Afghanistan/China/Russia/SCO – China, Russia have aligned interests to facilitate SCO role for Afghanistan (Global Times)

Danil Bochkov writes: President Joe Biden's decision on the swift withdrawal of American military forces from Afghanistan by August 31 has had a very...

China – Hainan works out 1st negative list for services investment (Global Times)

Global Times writes: China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Monday released the country's first negative list for cross-border trade in services in the  Hainan...

Semiconductor Localization – TSMC head calls for ‘free trade’; semiconductor localization and protectionism could harm global strategy: observers (Global Times)

Global Times writes: The president of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) called on countries to adopt "free trade" at a time when many governments...

UK/China – London urged to provide impartial business environment to Chinese companies (Global Times)

Global Times writes: The UK government should effectively provide Chinese companies with an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment, Zhao Lijian, Chinese Foreign Ministry...

China/Europe/Climate Change – EU carbon border tax will hurt trade, jeopardize efforts to fight climate change: Chinese ministry (Global Times)

Global Times writes: Lowering trade tariffs and barriers and promoting liberalization of cross-border trade and investment are important measures to address climate change, and...

(China/Military) Z-20 choppers continue flood relief work in C.China, show high endurance (Global Times)

Liu Xuanzun writes: Z-20 helicopters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) continued their high-intensity flood relief operations in Xinxiang, Central China's Henan Province...

USA/China/Cyber – US hypocrisy and double standard exposed by its cyberattack on petition calling for Fort Detrick lab probe: FM (Global Times)

Global Times writes: The US owes Chinese netizens an explanation on why it remains silent on opening Fort Detrick lab for investigation and why...

USA/China – China lists issues of concern to US, demands lifting sanctions and revoking Meng Wanzhou’s extradition (Global Times)

Global Times writes: China has delivered two lists of major concerns to the US during Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng's meeting with US Deputy...

Latin America – Reimagining Regional Governance in Latin America (The Dialogue)

(by Dylan Gervasio) The Dialogue writes: On July 20, 2021, the Inter-American Dialogue partnered with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to examine the arguments of the...

Latin America/USA – Has Latin America Become a Foreign Policy Priority for the U.S.? (The Dialogue)

by Donna Shalala, Jim Kolbe, Peter Hakim, Rebecca Bill Chavez The Dialogue writes: Legislators in the United States have been raising attention around political turmoil in Latin...

Artificial Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: Avoiding the Solutionist Trap (ELIAMEP)

Andrea Tsamados writes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is slowly moving past the public bewilderment phase that is common to most revolutionary technologies. In the past...

Cuba – Joint Statement on Cuba (US Department of State)

The following statement was released by the Governments of Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Guatemala, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania,...

USA/China – Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Visit to the People’s Republic of China (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman traveled to the People’s Republic of China for meetings with State...