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NLD Election Win Raises New Questions over Myanmar Military Chief’s Future
With the election victory of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) earlier this month and the prospect of the NLD continuing to hold office for…
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Lessons from around the world on fighting COVID’s second wave
As the northern hemisphere moves into winter, coronavirus rates are rising in parts of Europe and the USA. Experts are warning of a long winter ahead…
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India Begins Pivots to East Asia
Delhi displays growing ambitions in the South China Sea India is belatedly setting out to become a counterweight to China in East Asia, strengthening defense ties…
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What the new trade bloc means for Bangladesh
Mixed opinions followed after the signing of the new trade bloc—the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on November 15, 2020. Negotiated over a period of eight…
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UAE leaving OPEC? A storm in an oil barrel
The oil world was abuzz at the end of last week on speculation that the UAE might be on the verge of pulling out of the…
Analysis
Race Gap in U.S. Life Expectancy Widens As Covid-19 Toll Grows
Life expectancy for Black people and Latinos in the U.S. will shrink dramatically as a result of the pandemic. THE GAP BETWEEN Black and white life…
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New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World
The economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic has upended the global economic system and, just as importantly, cast out the neoliberal orthodoxy that dominated the industrialized…
Analysis
The Biden Formula
Just as US President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to “build back better” to promote economic recovery, America also urgently needs to reinvent its international role. Doing…
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Media freedom in Hong Kong and elsewhere needs defending more than ever
Threats against journalists and barriers to information access should be rightly viewed as attacks on human rights themselves Media Freedom Coalition and Unesco’s Global Media Defence…
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Yes, We Have COVID-19 Vaccines That Are 95% Effective. But That Doesn’t Mean the End of the Pandemic is Near
It’s a rare glimmer of hope in a brutal and battering pandemic year: in November, both Moderna and Pfizer reported that their much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccines are…
Analysis
Valley In Soft Focus
Biden will tread lightly on the rights issue in Kashmir, but that might be a blemish on his foreign policy agenda One of the core foreign…
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The long goodbye to Donald Trump
The American president is avoiding admitting defeat. If millions of citizens refuse to believe that the elections were clean, despite a mountain of evidence to the…