Search results for: Alexandra Said
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China’s Great Retreat: Unpacking the Boom, Bust, and Strategic Withdrawal from Africa
...has limited the expansion of BRI-related infrastructure. That said, not all BRI investments have faced the same level of decline. Strategic projects that directly tie into China’s long-term geopolitical goals,...
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The Climate Crisis in Tibet: The Dalai Lama’s Warning
...informed, up-to-date scientific knowledge is essential to tackle this crisis. That being said, Europe and the West must collaborate with India and other “like-minded” nations to develop scientific programs for...
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China as a Black Sea Actor: An Alternate Route
...connects, are no exceptions. That said, the region is only a part of a much larger scheme connecting China to Europe and the Middle East through its Belt and Road...
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Japan: No Indo-Pacific Order Without International Order
...which, as Kishida said, could soon face “harsher realities.” Second, highlighting the “loneliness and exhaustion” of the United States as the sole “country that has upheld the international order almost...
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Myths and Mysteries: Six months on from Turkey’s Curious Coup
...Fethullah Gülen. In fact, the INTCEN report said that some of Gülen’s followers probably participated in the coup, adding that it was unlikely that Gülen himself had masterminded it. The...
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The Lithuanian Gambit
...strategic economic shifts (Askew 2023) . So, the Lithuanian Gambit may be said to be still playing out, albeit in a context of some degree of trade normalisation....
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What to Make of Kim Yo Jong’s Verbal Attack of South Korea’s Defense Minister
...Introduction: Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a leading voice on inter-Korean relations, said on Sunday that “South Korea may...
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Japan Expects Biden to Rejoin the TPP
...Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore, and Vietnam. The CPTPP entered into effect in December 2018. “We have said many times that joining the TPP...
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Moving Beyond Rhetoric? The EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA)
...politics and security (more than 100) that the EU and Japan wanted to jointly tackle. That being said, the SPA is still listing 40 areas of cooperation, among them crisis...
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A Steady Hand: The EU 2019 Strategy & Policy Toward Central Asia
...appendix to something else. That said, a series of issues continue to confront EU policy in Central Asia. First among these is scope. The EU is active on numerous fronts...