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1 May 2020

Should India Foster Ties With Taliban Despite Its Past Misdemeanors?

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P. Stobdan Source Link Taliban’s spokesperson Mohammad Suhail Shaheen recently told to an Indian audience through a webinar spee...

One Land, Two Rules (10): Three case studies on Taleban sales of state land

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Fazl Rahman Muzhary  Source Link As the Taleban have expanded their areas of control around the country, anecdotal reports have been...

5G Is Old News: China Wants 6G For Its Military

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by Peter Suciu Source Link While most consumers still have yet to upgrade to 5G wireless service around the world, and its deplo...

Modest multilateralism is in America's interest, and China’s too

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BY HAL BRANDS Source Link WASHINGTON – Great global traumas have a way of revealing the gap between the sort of international system ...

Coronavirus: What Comes Next?

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By Kurt Volker Source Link A Conversation with former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and Ambassador Kurt Volker.  As the worl...

How China Sees the World

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BY H.R. MCMASTER Source Link I. The Forbidden City On November 8, 2017, Air Force One touched down in Beijing, marking the start...

Freedom and privacy in the time of coronavirus

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Robert E. Litan and Martin Lowy Source Link “Opening up America” is about restoring the health of our society, not only about getti...

Polarization and the Pandemic

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THOMAS CAROTHERS , ANDREW O'DONOHUE Source Link OVERVIEW: THE PUNISHING TEST The coronavirus is subjecting countries around...

What Coronavirus Could Mean for China

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By Emil Avdaliani Source Link EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: States all over the world stand to lose a great deal economically from the coro...

Fotros: Iran Has Killer Drones That Can Loiter over a Battlefield for a Day

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by David Axe  Source Link The ground-combat branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it’s acquiring long-range drone...

Crisis in Yemen as Aden separatists declare self-rule

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Patrick Wintour  Source Link Fighters with Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council drive past a separatist flag as they de...

The U.S.-Iran Showdown: Clashing Strategic Universes Amid a Changing Region

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Ross Harrison Source Link The United States and Iran are poised for a showdown. Understanding where we are today with this conflict a...

Drone Killings Don’t Work, According to This Book

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by David Axe  Source Link David Axe: "America isn’t supposed to assassinate people — Pres. Ronald Reagan had banned the pract...

How COVID-19 is testing American leadership

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Joseph S Nye, Harvard University Source Link Under the influence of the information revolution and globalisation, world politics h...

The End of the Harvard Century

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BY MATTEO N. WONG Source Link Teng Biao, who has cropped black hair and rectangular, wire-framed glasses, was preparing to drive to ...

Remembering Elie Kedourie: How One Analyst Spoke Truth to Power in the Middle East

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by Robert D. Kaplan Source Link EVER SINCE the nineteenth century, when so-called reforms were initiated in the Ottoman Empire, the...

Reinstate Capt. Crozier to USS Roosevelt, Navy Tells Esper

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BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS Source Link Senior Navy officials have recommended to Defense Secretary Mark Esper that Capt. Brett Crozier, ...

Trump’s Latest Immigration Restrictions Are Ill-Advised—and Un-American

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Stewart M. Patrick  Source Link Late on the night of April 20, President Donald Trump abruptly announced on Twitter that he would...

Don’t Bash Globalization—It Will Rescue Our Economies After the Pandemic

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BY SALVATORE BABONES  Source Link Aglobal recession is deepening as one major economy after another falls prey to the coronaviru...

Why America is cracking up

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By SPENGLER Source Link American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup, by Francis H. Buckley. Encounter Books, 2020....

Don’t Bash Globalization—It Will Rescue Our Economies After the Pandemic

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BY SALVATORE BABONES Source Link Aglobal recession is deepening as one major economy after another falls prey to the coronavirus pa...

Medical, Economic, Social, Military: The State of Play

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By George Friedman Source Link A riot broke out in a poor, predominantly Muslim neighborhood north of Paris over the weekend. The im...

Returning to work during the pandemic

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By Michael Shoebridge Source Link National Cabinet is meeting to begin the pathway to get Australia back to work and school. That'...

24 Million 5G Smartphones Were Sold Worldwide in the First Quarter. Who Sold the Most?

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by Stephen Silver Source Link Smartphones with 5G capability are seen by many as a technology of the future, although they’re ce...

Global military expenditure sees largest annual increase in a decade—says SIPRI—reaching $1917 billion in 2019

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Source Link World military expenditure, by region, 1988–2019 (Stockholm, 27 April 2020) Total global military expenditure rose ...
30 April 2020

How Can Indians Secure ‘Direct’ Welfare in a Pandemic?

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By Mohammad Hamza Farooqui and Avantika Shrivastava Source Link The government of India last month promised a relief package of ab...

Pakistan Gets Unexpected Economic Relief in a Time of Global Crisis Will Pakistan find some respite from the effects of COVID–19 outside its borders?

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B y Umair Jamal Source Link For months, Pakistan has struggled to find an opportunity that could ease the country’s balance of pay...

Missile Investments Are Needed to Meet China’s Nuclear Challenge

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By Richard D. Fisher, Jr. Source Link Prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic, President Donald Trump made clear his intention to enga...

PANDEMIC MAY BURN OUT, BUT AMERICA FACES A NEW, SCARIER WORLD

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By Victor Davis Hanson  Source Link The world was a dangerous place before — and will be after — the coronavirus pandemic. While ...

The Coming China Backlash

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by Richard Javad Heydarian Source Link “Ageneration has died in just over two weeks. We’ve never seen anything like this and i...

Battling Fake News and (In)Security during COVID-19

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JOSEPH DOWNING, WASIM AHMED, JOSEP VIDAL-ALABALL AND FRANCESC LOPEZ SEGUÍ Source Link From the start of the coronavirus/COVID-19 p...