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The New Cold War Raises Climate Fears

The U.S.-China relationship's long slide into enemy-ship has now been formalized: we're in a new cold war. This isn't news exactly, but the way the Biden administration made this division the main structuring principle of its new National Security Strategy is ...

Biden’s National Security Strategy Formalizes New Cold War

The Biden administration’s newly released National Security Strategy sketched a dark vision of the 2020s as a decade when “he terms of geopolitical competition between the major powers will be set.” The release of the strategy document was delayed due to the Ukraine invasion. It incorporates many ...

Xi’s Agenda Troubled by Miscalculations: Top Singapore Diplomat 

As strategic competition between China and the United States intensifies, Beijing enters its momentous 20th Party Congress (kicking off on Sunday) saddled with three big foreign policy mistakes.  So argues Singapore's former top diplomat, Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan, in an entertaining interview with ...

China Releases Climate Plan Focusing Heavily on Global South

China has released a new concept note  on climate cooperation in the runup to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (known as COP27) taking place in Egypt in November.  The document suggests areas of cooperation between China and international partners on ...

Morocco Buys Chinese Drones

Morocco bought an unspecified number of Chinese-made Wing Loong II drones. The remote-controlled planes have both reconnaissance and strike capability and are an upgrade of the earlier Wing Loong drone. Morocco already owns four of these older models and similar tech from Israel and Turkey. 

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The Pain of Un-Polarity

“THE G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!”
This post by U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week may end up leaving a more lasting mark than the actual summit he attended.

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Ethiopia Debuts New Chinese-Built Science Museum

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated a new Chinese-built museum of science in Addis Ababa last week. He said the museum "offers both the young and old a place to inquire, explore, innovate and invent" and praised how it was "built in ...

Debt in Africa: Everyone’s Watching What China Does in Zambia

The United Nations Development Program issued a new report this week that once again sounded the alarm on the urgent need for debt relief in the world's poorest countries. The UNDP said 54 countries are at risk, with African countries accounting ...