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Breakdown imminent? Acrimony between China and North Korea
- Daily News
- May 4, 2017
The unprecedented tensions between China and North Korea show no signs of abating. With state media on both sides now
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Winning over the president: Turnbull meets Trump
- Daily News
- May 4, 2017
The first conversation between the leaders of Australia and the US was a disaster. PM Turnbull will use his first in-person
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A spring thaw for icy relations? Merkel in Russia
- Daily News
- May 2, 2017
Angela Merkel travels to the Black Sea resort of Sochi today to meet with President Vladimir Putin. The official reason
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The Daily Brief: Sunday, Apr. 16
- Daily Brief
- April 16, 2017
Understand the world. One brief at a time.
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Compromised? Trump’s Russia scandal
- Daily News
- March 30, 2017
Donald Trump was plagued by his associates’ Russian connections well before he took office. On Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee
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As expected: Hong Kong’s election
- Daily News
- March 26, 2017
Hong Kong’s 1,200-member Election Committee elects a new chief executive on Sunday, with Beijing-favourite Carrie Lam expected to win. The
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Maintaining momentum: US-India security ties
- Daily News
- March 24, 2017
India has proudly striven to remain non-aligned and strategically autonomous since independence. This may be slowly changing under the Modi
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Problem child: Somalia’s lifeline
- Daily News
- March 23, 2017
Somalia’s brand is crisis, though not the crisis management sort. Its 26-year-old civil war requires the ongoing presence of 22,000
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Build me a train and I’ll shut up
- Daily News
- March 19, 2017
Philippine foreign policy has transformed radically over the past year. Once a firm American ally, Manila’s allegiance is becoming shaky.
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Friends in need: Tillerson in Seoul
- Daily News
- March 17, 2017
American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson continues his tour of Asia on Friday with a stop in South Korea. The
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Irritable behemoth: China punishes South Korea
- Daily News
- March 15, 2017
The absence of millions of Chinese tourists will soon begin to be felt in South Korea. The China National Tourism
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Russian Eurovision boycott? Musical kitch meets geopolitics
- Daily News
- March 13, 2017
Europe’s annual musical extravaganza is loved and lampooned across the Continent. 125 million viewers tune in to watch contestants from
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Institutional bonfire: South Korea’s political maelstrom
- Daily News
- March 9, 2017
On Thursday the trial of Samsung’s chief, Lee Jae-yong, will begin. Prosecutors allege that his company gave $38 million in
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Partnership by default: Germany and Poland
- Daily News
- March 8, 2017
Germany’s foreign ministers always visit its eastern neighbour on their first Eastern European trip. Not so with Sigmar Gabriel. His
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Brexit saga rolls on
- Daily News
- March 7, 2017
Lawmakers in the House of Lords will debate making further amendments to the Brexit bill on Tuesday, followed by a
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EU Foreign Affairs Council meets to discuss security
- Daily News
- March 6, 2017
Europe’s security environment is the worst is it has been since the end of the Cold War. This means there
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Democracy with Chinese characteristics
- Daily News
- March 3, 2017
Today is as close as it gets to open policy debate in China. The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference will
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Hope for Europe: Macron reveals campaign platform
- Daily News
- March 2, 2017
Emmanuel Macron – currently France’s best hope for remaining in the EU – is due to unveil his policy program
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Saudi Arabia and Indonesia: an emerging partnership
- Daily News
- March 1, 2017
An entourage of 1,500 will accompany the Saudi king on his trip to Indonesia on Wednesday. Relations are ripe for
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Looking east: Salman on tour
- Daily News
- February 26, 2017
Saudi Arabia has been joined at the hip with the West since the Cold War era. This is slowly changing.
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Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement chooses candidate
- Daily News
- February 25, 2017
Today Hong Kong’s pro-democracy coalition will gather to choose a candidate for the chief executive elections scheduled for March 26.
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Australia’s sunspotted economy: strong but vulnerable
- Economics & Finance
- February 17, 2017
Australia’s strong economy is keeping ethno-nationalist politics at bay – for now.
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Asian trade deals: US bails, the region carries on
- Economics & Finance
- February 5, 2017
President Trump may have killed the TPP but support for free trade in the Asia-Pacific is far from dead.
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Xi’s the boss: China’s leadership transition
- China
- January 20, 2017
China’s President Xi may use this year’s party congress to make his authority paramount.
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2017 Geopolitical Forecast: Asia Pacific
- Asia Pacific
- January 7, 2017
Trade, strategy, and elections will all feature prominently in the Asia Pacific in 2017.
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Structurally unsound? China’s slowing economy
- Economics & Finance
- December 9, 2016
China’s risky economic reorientation could allow it to sustain its economic rise but a botched transition could wreak havoc.
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America’s eroding military position in East Asia
- Asia Pacific
- November 26, 2016
Budget cuts, the distractions of the War on Terror and increasingly outdated doctrine are tipping the military balance towards China.
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The Western revolt: why populism is winning
- United States
- November 14, 2016
If any further proof was needed, Donald Trump’s election shock has confirmed that Western politics is in crisis.
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The Chairman’s ghost? Xi Jinping and the Communist Party plenum
- China
- November 11, 2016
Chinese President Xi Jinping was recently granted “core” status. What does this mean for China?
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