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Economic Recovery Depends on Putting COVID-19 Immunity to Best Use
Policies on managing the end of COVID-19 deconfinements continue to take insufficient account of the immunity acquired by those who have had the illness. The scientific…
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Rajapaksas seek Sinhalese supremacy in Sri Lanka
Ruling clan is pushing new form of ethnic majoritarianism to marginalize and dominate historically restive Tamil minority With Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa clan back in power, the…
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President Gotabaya Can Achieve Where Other Leaders Failed
Despite its small size Sri Lanka has occasionally been prominent on the world scene for both good reasons and bad. Sri Lanka gained much positive publicity…
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Iran is the secret match maker in Israeli-Arab relations
Despite their own propaganda and rhetoric, the secular Arab regimes long ago figured out that the Islamists were a far greater threat than the Zionists. Iran’s…
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No transparency
MUCH like how in the past governments have changed overnight, so did the Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) Rules, 2020…
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What Modi govt can do to placate angry farmers and end their protests
Problem is Modi government has failed to explain how it intends to compensate those farmers and regions that will lose out if subsidies are eliminated. The…
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Vaccines are here, but how will we get them to billions of people?
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has just been approved for widespread use in the UK and the government has ordered 40 million doses – enough to vaccinate 20…
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Canada, India mudslinging over Sikh farmer protests
Canadian leader plays to the Sikh crowd at home but New Delhi fears any foreign support for a revival of Punjabi separatism Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
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Biden’s chance to revive nuclear arms control
As President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris prepare to be sworn in on 20 January, there’s an expectation of US re-engagement with multilateralism and a…
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Biden’s Choice on Julian Assange and the First Amendment
Assange’s liberty represents that of all journalists and publishers whose job is to expose government and corporate criminality without fear of prosecution. WHEN JOE BIDEN becomes…
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How the COVID-19 crisis can spur economic transformation
The pandemic represents a severe challenge for policymakers in Asia. They need a response that will help economies achieve a more efficient and fairer allocation of…
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Australia’s tricky China problem
"China is angry. If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy." This was the message recently conveyed by a Chinese government official on…