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Christopher Burke 1 day ago Landlocked Africa is an open opportunity for Australia Rather than compete on aid volumes, Australia could leverage remote logistics expertise as quality partner for major projects.
Srijan Shukla 1 day ago Fighting China’s subsidies means copying China’s economic model Rather than just raising trade barriers, countries should predict where Chinese subsidies will move next to compete there.
Lisa Martin 1 day ago Trump to cast a shadow over coming Greenland talks Officials from the US, Denmark and Greenland are expected to hold talks on Monday and Tuesday – the first since the President mused about taking the territory by force.
R. N. Prasher 1 day ago Has the Second World War finally ended for Germany and Japan? Doubts about US commitment are pushing Berlin and Tokyo toward military self-reliance they haven’t sought since 1945.
Natalia Beghin 2 days ago Markets have the money, developing countries need the projects – what’s stopping them? Investors assume developing economies are risky, but evidence shows the opposite.
Meloney C. Lindberg , Diya Nag , Pechet Men 2 days ago What happens when Cambodia graduates from aid but isn’t self-sustaining? Cambodia’s “missing middle” means economic growth hasn’t yet produced the managers and technicians the country needs.
Charles Crabtree 2 days ago Japan’s analog bureaucracy holds back a digital economy Obtaining a criminal-record check should be a simple task, yet in Japan reveals a state capacity problem.
Mark Pierce 2 days ago A survival guide for advisers to the powerful From Nixon’s downfall to Merkel’s success, history offers hard lessons for those behind the throne.
Alana Ford 3 Dec 2025 Rethinking the Indo-Pacific as a single ocean system The waters that connect the region matter more than the distances between its shores, and 2026 will test that principle.