What is China’s 5-year plan, and why is it so important?
The Communist Party’s Central Committee will discuss the next five-year plan – the country’s 15th – at a meeting next month. Read More Here
Tag: Government
Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails. Read More Here
To Lam consolidating hard, fast and forceful rule in Vietnam
Vietnamese leader is making moves and appointments that some fear is already concentrating too much power in his hands. Read More Here
China Is Enjoying Trump 2.0
How the trade war is helping Beijing prepare for long-term competition. Read More Here
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.
The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government and the budget may start to depend on it. Read More Here
Who’s who in Britain’s new Labour government led by Keir Starmer
Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed a Cabinet of Labour Party lawmakers. Labour has spent 14 years in opposition, so few have held government office before. Read More Here
Afghanistan Under the Taliban: What We Know and Don’t Know
After over three years in power, the Taliban appear to be trying outreach as well as repression in governing Afghanistan’s diverse communities. Read More Here
How Will Taiwan’s New President Handle China?
Lai Ching-te’s precarious balancing act… Read More Here
Singapore’s New PM Is Already Worried
A long-ruling party sees vulnerability as key to its own security and power. Read More Here
The Tech Industry is the New Defense Industrial Base
Establishing early relationships between the government and the tech sector will help the latter understand how to engage the government as a customer and incentivize dual-use technology development. Read More Here
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