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How to Make Trade Work for Workers: Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism
Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs Coronavirus has challenged many long-held assumptions. In the coming months and years, the United...


Europe still lacks a foreign policy
The Economist A coherent foreign policy in current circumstances would make sense. Instead, the EU has a contradictory one. Read the full...


What’s This? A Bipartisan Plan for AI and National Security
Tom Simonite, Weird US Representatives Will Hurd and Robin Kelly are from opposite sides of the ever-widening aisle, but they share a...


Competing with China? The United States has disarmed itself
Mira Rapp-Hooper, CNN Trump administration long ago sabotaged its best chances of competing with or standing up to Beijing, by alienating...


US restrictions on skilled immigration likely to result in offshoring more jobs
Priyanka Sangani, The Economic Times Several IT firms and industry associations such as Nasscom have criticized US President Donald...


US vs EU: A new transatlantic trade war looming?
Andrei Kodomstev, Modern Diplomacy Many observers warn that worsening transatlantic trade relations could lead to a new trade war. The...


Trump's Biggest Foreign Policy Win
Ian Bremmer, TIME The British government announced that U.K. telecom carriers will be banned from installing new Huawei equipment for...


UN chief calls for “a new model for global governance”
Democracy Without Borders In what The Guardian newspaper called “his most stinging speeches to date”, UN Secretary-General António...


The Case for Ecological Realism
Stewart M. Patrick, WPR The time has come for the nations of the world to embrace a new approach to world politics that treats the...


Global cooperation key to eradicating deadly pig virus: UN agency
UN News A disease that may kill every pig it infects and for which there is no effective vaccine can be eradicated if more countries...


With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books
The Economist While countries around the world adopt cleaner sources of energy, Covid-19 has given the Middle East and North Africa a...


Digital Nomads Are New Travel Winners, As Entire Countries Open Doors To Work Tourism
Alex Ledsom, Forbes Digital nomads used to be a niche in the travel market, posting enviable photos on Instagram of a sumptuous working...


Emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination
Newsroom, Modern Diplomacy An independent UN human rights expert is calling for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which...


In Somalia, Iran Is Replicating Russia’s Afghan Strategy
Muhammad Fraser-Rahim and Mo Fatah, Foreign Policy Iran has established covert ties with the Somalia-based al-Shabab terrorist group well...


Challenges in Oceania: the fight over Pacific Island Countries (PICs)
Alessandro Russo, Modern Diplomacy As China continues to grow, and Western countries notice, Oceania has regained increasing attention....


Will China save Iran?
Norman Bailey, Asia Times A strategic alliance with Beijing could revitalise the Islamic republic, which has serious security...


Canberra vs Beijing: Getting serious about costs
Sam Roggeveen, The Interpreter It is impossible to have a useful public debate about the value of sovereignty if we refuse to put a price...


U.S. Rescinds Plan to Strip Visas From International Students in Online Classes
Miriam Jordan and Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times The Trump administration said it would no longer require foreign students to...


UK’s Asia Minister discusses science & business with Vietnam as part of ‘renewed focus’ on relations
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Nigel Adams MP, Gov UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister for Asia Nigel Adams MP held several...


Humanitarian aid: EU announces €24 million in Uganda amid coronavirus pandemic
European commission The EU will provide €24 million in humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable people in Uganda in 2020, with a...
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