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  • Breakdown imminent? Acrimony between China and North Korea

    Breakdown imminent? Acrimony between China and North Korea

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Winning over the president: Turnbull meets Trump

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    A spring thaw for icy relations? Merkel in Russia

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    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

    Compromised? Trump’s Russia scandal

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    As expected: Hong Kong’s election

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Maintaining momentum: US-India security ties

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Problem child: Somalia’s lifeline

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Build me a train and I’ll shut up

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Friends in need: Tillerson in Seoul

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Irritable behemoth: China punishes South Korea

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Russian Eurovision boycott? Musical kitch meets geopolitics

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Institutional bonfire: South Korea’s political maelstrom

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Partnership by default: Germany and Poland

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Brexit saga rolls on

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    EU Foreign Affairs Council meets to discuss security

    • Daily Brief
    • March 6, 2017

    Europe’s security environment is the worst is it has been since the end of the Cold War. This means there

    READ MORE
  • Democracy with Chinese characteristics

    Democracy with Chinese characteristics

    • Daily Brief
    • March 3, 2017

    Today is as close as it gets to open policy debate in China. The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference will

    READ MORE
  • Hope for Europe: Macron reveals campaign platform

    Hope for Europe: Macron reveals campaign platform

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Saudi Arabia and Indonesia: an emerging partnership

    • Daily Brief
    • 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

    Looking east: Salman on tour

    • Daily Brief
    • 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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