Steven is a member of both the Risk Analysis and Current Developments teams. Serving as both a researcher and publisher, he assists with the delivery of all facets of the Daily Brief. Steven's writing focuses on China, Russia, and macroeconomics.
Beijing’s influence over the former Soviet states has grown in parallel with its economic investment.
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Investment strategies and national interests are colliding with development realities in the continent.
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The rapid spread of COVID-19 threatens to disrupt China’s economic growth and global supply chains.
READ MOREPhoto: UNHCR/D. MbaioremCameroonians will head to the polls today for legislative and municipal elections. However, it is unclear if the
READ MOREIowa voters will head to the polls for the first major contest of the US 2020 election primary season. There
READ MOREEuropean and Ukrainian leaders will gather in Brussels today to discuss the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The agreement
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US unilateralism has opened the door for other global powers to increase their regional influence.
READ MOREThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to decide on whether it will force Myanmar to adopt provisional measures
READ MOREBusiness leaders and heads of state from around the globe will gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum
READ MORESupporters of Yahya Jammeh, the exiled former president of Gambia, will gather in the country’s capital today to demand he
READ MORERussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena today for a discussion on military
READ MOREJapanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu will meet with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila today to discuss a budding economic
READ MORERussian President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul today to inaugurate the TurkStream natural gas
READ MOREGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit the White House today for discussions with President Donald Trump on economic cooperation,
READ MOREThousands of leftist demonstrations are expected to take place in at least a dozen cities throughout India to protest the
READ MOREJapanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi will meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, today to discuss the two states’ territorial
READ MOREMembers of the European Council will convene today in Brussels to discuss Brexit and the future of EU-UK relations. The
READ MOREUnions are expected to continue a series of rolling strikes in Paris today over the French government’s pension reform plan.
READ MORERussia and Belarus will sign an agreement today to create an economic union, establishing free trade and overlapping energy markets
READ MORESamoa’s government will shut down for 48 hours from today in order to allow public servants to assist with a
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