Asean needs a plan to navigate choppy US-China relations
The regional grouping is at a crossroads, under pressure from its own citizens to do better amid high anxiety over major power competition. Read More Here
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Will Nasrallah’s killing drive or deter a wider Mideast war?
Hezbollah leader’s assassination means militant group could soon face an Israeli invasion without proven leadership. Read More Here
Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa
African countries’ large and growing debt burdens have become a major obstacle to poverty reduction. Western countries must stop exacerbating the continent’s problems and offer debt relief by substituting grants for loans and forcing private lenders to settle sovereign-debt disputes in borrower-country courts. Read More Here
Sri Lanka’s People Need a New Debt Deal
Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, must reject his predecessor’s recent debt-restructuring deal with bondholders. That agreement would inflict unnecessary pain on Sri Lanka’s population and set a dangerous precedent, undermining other developing economies’ ability to restructure their foreign debts. Read More Here
“Middle-Income Trap” Hinders Progress in 108 Developing Countries
More than 100 countries—including China, India, Brazil, and South Africa—face serious obstacles that could hinder their efforts to become high-income countries in the next few decades, according to a new World Bank study that provides the first comprehensive roadmap to enable developing countries to escape the “middle-income trap.” Read More Here
Southeast Asia and the Global South: Rhetoric vs reality
As China, India and others vie to be the Global South’s champion, Southeast Asia’s complexities challenge the one-size-fits-all narrative. Read More Here
As China, India ramp up naval rivalry, is the Indian Ocean at a maritime crossroads?
China’s ports and ship deployments in India’s backyard raise concerns of control and influence in Indian Ocean as next possible flashpoint. Read More Here
Military purges put Xi Jinping’s singer-wife in the spotlight
Speculation is rife over whether Peng Liyuan is helping Xi control China’s military. Read More Here
The China Factor in Modi’s Mission to Moscow
The alliance of convenience between Russia and China threatens not only to accelerate an increasingly overstretched America’s relative decline, but also to erode Indian security. Read More Here
Trump’s Return Would Transform Europe
Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past. Read More Here
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