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Indonesia gambles on special ASEAN summit on Myanmar

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Aristyo Rizka Darmawan 22 Apr 2021 07:00

Toxic reaction to Japan’s Fukushima water dump

Experts insist the release of treated radioactive water is not dangerous. Legal challenges might find otherwise.
Elliott Zaagman 21 Apr 2021 15:00

China’s Twitter trolls make bid for vacant Trump property

“Own the libs” obnoxiousness failed, but China’s social media diplomats haven’t all got the memo.
Johannes Nugroho 21 Apr 2021 13:30

Indonesia gambles on special ASEAN summit on Myanmar

Joko Widodo may have an eye to his legacy by inviting the junta to Jakarta, but it could also cost his prestige.
Rajesh Trichur Venkiteswaran 21 Apr 2021 06:00

India’s failure to include enough women in politics

The world’s largest democracy has barely begun to draw on half its pool of candidates.
Nicholas Chan 20 Apr 2021 16:30

“America’s back” in the Paris Agreement. For how long?

Climate politics is enjoying an optimistic moment, but a Trumpist rerun would be ruinous for environmental diplomacy.
Philip Citowicki 20 Apr 2021 10:00

Roosevelt’s lessons for nations across generations

Over a century ago, Theodore Roosevelt declared “the quality of the leaders is all-important”. It’s as true now as then.
Justice Gua 20 Apr 2021 06:00

Accountability is the path to better governance in PNG

A more inclusive environment and more responsive public-service initiatives will lessen the citizen-state divide.
Matthew Sussex 19 Apr 2021 12:00

Sticks and carrots in Biden’s Russia strategy

Washington deserves two cheers for its early moves against Moscow. But the approach remains fundamentally reactive.
Erin Hurley 19 Apr 2021 10:00

America and China: Imagining the worst

A little well-crafted speculation can shake off complacency and allow people to focus on the true challenge.

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Long Reads

An interim government would bring ruin to Afghanistan

Nishank Motwani

A US proposal to dissolve the Afghan administration risks a tragic repeat of the past.
Can vaccines offer an exit plan from Covid-19?

Raina MacIntyre

Extraordinary global efforts are bearing fruit, but not all vaccines will be equal – in efficacy or to escape pandemic.
The strange connections of isolation

Melissa Conley Tyler

Reflecting on a year when a virus closed borders and drove us all together.

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