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Afghanistan After the U.S. Pullout: Challenges to Russia and Central Asia The nature of the Afghan problem for Central Asia and Russia lies in Afghanistan becoming a source of instability for the region.

What Russia’s National Security Strategy Has to Say About Asia The new NSS has some notable differences from the 2015 version on Russia’s approach to the Asia-Pacific – and China in particular.

EU Adopts Climate Overhaul With Moves on Cars, Planes and Trade The European Union will transform every corner of its economy -- from how people heat their home to the cars they drive -- as the bloc uses a massive overhaul of rules to position itself as a global leader on climate change.

The pandemic has proven the lethality of populism. The countries ruled by populists have paid a heavy price in mortality, caseloads and economic damage. The triumvirate of Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Narendra Modi’s India and Donald Trump’s America have become the hardest-hit nations in the world. It is a tragic confirmation of our worst fears. Populism is more deadly than we have imagined before Covid.

What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything. There’s no single reason for India’s catastrophic covid surge. Instead, it’s the result of basic mistakes and callous technocratic failures.

Israel’s Drone Swarm Over Gaza Should Worry Everyone It’s time global leaders set new rules for these future weapons already being used to kill.

How the Afghanistan Withdrawal Costs the U.S. With China The benefits of the withdrawal in terms of promoting competitiveness with China aren’t as compelling as they seem.

China’s Policies Are Fuelling Hostile Jihadi Sentiment Around the World - The Geopolitics China’s Policies Are Fuelling Hostile Jihadi Sentiment Around the World By Lucas Webber - June 26, 2021 Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Linkedin Image credit: Palácio do Planalto, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons China’s domestic security measures and its foreign policy actions have incense...

“Democracy has alway been corruptible. Aristotle dismissed democracy because it was so likely to slide into tyranny; the Founding Fathers stuffed the Constitution with checks and balances for exactly that reason. Benjamin Franklin, when once asked what America would be, “a republic or a monarchy,” responded: “A republic, if you can keep it.”.

“Richard Nixon, when advisers suggested that he contest the results of the incredibly tight 1960 presidential election, refused: “Our country can’t afford the agony of a constitutional crisis—and I damn well will not be a party to creating one just to become president or anything else.”

Democracy Is Surprisingly Easy to Undermine Politicians around the world are borrowing Trump’s “Stop the Steal” tactics. These false fraud allegations are profoundly dangerous.

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“ It’s common these days to hear people talk about sick America, dying America, the end of America. The same kinds of things were said in 1861, in 1893, in 1933, and in 1968. The sickness, the death, is always a moral condition. Maybe this comes from our Puritan heritage. If we are dying, it can’t be from natural causes. It must be a prolonged act of su***de, which is a form of murder.
I don’t think we are dying. We have no choice but to live together—we’re quarantined as fellow citizens. Knowing who we are lets us see what kinds of change are possible. Countries are not social-science experiments. They have organic qualities, some positive, some destructive, that can’t be wished away.”

How America Fractured Into Four Parts People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?

What we need most from here is a rebuilding of the partnerships between governments and between government and industry to thrive in a world where Xi’s Tiananmen calculation turns out to be not just cynical, but wrong.
- Michael Shoebridge is the director of ASPI’s defence, strategy, and national security program.

Beijing’s ‘Tiananmen calculation’ banks on the West’s obsession with the China market | The Strategist Why is Beijing so ‘out and proud’ in using its power in ways that conflict with others’ interests, break international law and breach treaty commitments? Since 2015, we’ve seen Xi Jinping’s government build military facilities ...

The female CEOs on this year's Fortune 500 just broke three all-time records From the highest-ranking female CEO to new representation for Black women on the list.