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Greg Earl

Economic diplomacy: Patent politics and trade deal twists

Soo Kim

Biden’s North Korea plans come into view

Mubashar Hasan

Authoritarians seek advantage in India’s Covid crisis

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Shannon McGarry, Rodger Shanahan 7 May 2021 10:00

Royal rifts: Implications of Jordan’s family feud

A supposed coup, a would-be king and restless youth. Trouble is brewing in the Hashemite kingdom.
Angelo Paolo L. Trias, Alistair D.B. Cook 7 May 2021 06:00

Post-Covid disaster governance in Southeast Asia

The pandemic revealed a narrow focus on natural hazards, lacking the systems needed for an increasingly complex world.
Greg Earl 6 May 2021 15:00

Economic diplomacy: Patent politics and trade deal twists

President Biden moves to suspend vaccine patents, RCEP ramps up, IA-CEPA gets a lesson and US dollar reserves tank.
Andrea Chloe Wong 6 May 2021 10:00

Philippines community pantries give help – and send a message

Filipinos are putting the Duterte administration on notice that its efforts to help during the pandemic fall short.
Soo Kim 6 May 2021 05:00

Biden’s North Korea plans come into view

Short on details, the US president’s policy positions still leave plenty of room for speculation.
Mubashar Hasan 5 May 2021 10:00

Authoritarians seek advantage in India’s Covid crisis

China and Russia are on a vaccine drive across South Asia to deliver on India’s fast-vanishing promises.
Jeffrey Robertson 5 May 2021 06:00

Is North Korea expertise all talk?

The debate around understanding one of the world’s most reclusive nations centres on the question of language.
Anita Inder Singh 4 May 2021 13:30

India’s power illusion

Ambition now looks like arrogance as New Delhi’s mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in disaster.
Adnan Aamir 4 May 2021 10:30

Pakistani Taliban turn on China

Any friend of the government in Islamabad appears to be an enemy of the terrorist group.

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Long Reads

India: Smoke and mirrors

Aarti Betigeri

India’s terrible Covid tragedy, still on the rise, reveals who really keeps the country from falling apart.
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.

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