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Decade of patience: How China became a power in the Western Balkans
Vladimir Shopov, ECFR | China has become the most prominent third actor in the Western Balkans. The country’s activities are spread...
Rebuilding the global economy
Adam S. Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics | Rebuilding the global economy is essential to addressing many...
Russian Campaign Promotes Homegrown Vaccine and Undercuts Rivals
The New York Times| Russian news outlets connected to election disinformation campaigns in the United States have set their sights on a...
3 reasons why embracing the circular economy can be powerful for middle income countries
Maria Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar - World Economic Forum | Wherever you live, a circular transition is crucial to building a resilient...
Trade in the Time of Pandemics
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Think Global Health | All of humanity faces a common foe, a pathogen that has no respect for borders and rides...
MENA Unbound: Ten Years after the Arab Spring, Avoiding Another Lost Decade
Ferid Belhaj, World Bank | The “Arab Spring” led to the fall of governments in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. But as we now know, the wave...
International Donors Are Complicit in Middle Eastern Elites’ Game
David Linfield, Carnegie | By pushing economic liberalization in the Middle East without requiring transparency and fighting corruption,...
China, EU complete long talks over bilateral investment treaty
GT staff reporters, Global Times | China and the EU have completed negotiations over an epic bilateral investment treaty (BIT), signaling...
With Brexit, the UK may be bolstering the EU and seeding its own disintegration
Andrew Hammond, SCMP | While the 2020s could see a more federal, centralised European Union, the opposite may be true for the UK. With...
Brexit 'big bang' to trigger tectonic trading rift in Europe
Huw Jones and Tommy Wilkes, Reuters | Europe will see its biggest transfer of share trading in more than two decades when stock exchanges...
UK-EU Brexit trade deal at a glance
Anna Isaac, Elenor Mears & Barbara Moens, Politico | The deal between the U.K. and the EU is the largest bilateral trade pact in history,...
A Cure for the Brexit Trade Blues
Ibrahim Khan, Foreign Policy | The United Kingdom will need new alliances beyond its current relationships, the Commonwealth as an entity...
Agrifood Brief, Special Edition: A closer look at EU agrifood trade
Gerardo Fortuna and Natasha Foote, EURACTIV | In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of creating resilient food systems...
Microsoft and 12 others join Amazon's climate change initiative
Kris Holt, Engadget | Microsoft and 12 other companies have joined Amazon's Climate Pledge, which is a commitment to hit net zero carbon...
Tech Giants and Social Media Need Smart Regulation
Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal | The antitrust cases against Google and now Facebook are a welcome reinvigoration of the...
Major Companies Call on Biden to Act on Climate Change
Nick Sobczyk, Scientific American | Utilities, banks and car makers signed a statement urging the President-elect and Congress to enact...
Promoting European strategic sovereignty in Asia
Janka Oertel & Andrew Small, ECFR | Europe is debating about further diversifying its economic relationships beyond China as a result of...
Why German industry is looking past China to the rest of Asia
Frederick Kliem, Nikkei Asia | Germany has been heavily invested in China, not just in terms of capital but in an unsuccessful gamble on...
Jeff Bezos Earth Fund gives $12 million to NDN Collective for climate change initiatives
Journal staff, Rapid City Journal | Jeff Bezos, billionaire Amazon CEO, gave $12 million from his Bezos Earth Fund to Rapid City-based...
Cambodia’s aim in trade deals: keep the US and Japan close, but China closer
Maria Siow, SCMP | Phnom Penh is negotiating a raft of free-trade agreements, but the pacts are not expected to lessen its reliance on...
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