Tag: global affairs

• One Belt, One Road

  November 23, 2018

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• Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India

  November 23, 2018

  Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India Before any Amazon parcel arrives at Sahiba Ashraf’s creaky wooden balcony on Havelock Island, it undertakes… more ›

• The Land That Failed to Fail

  November 19, 2018

  The Land That Failed to Fail The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-rules.html more ›

• Lions on the move II: Realizing the potential of Africa’s economies

  November 18, 2018

  Lions on the move II: Realizing the potential of Africa’s economies Africa’s economic fundamentals remain strong, but governments and companies will need to work even harder to keep the region’s… more ›

• Trump’s America: Aggrieved and Adoring Voices From Inside the Presidential Bubble

  November 11, 2018

  Trump’s America: Aggrieved and Adoring Voices From Inside the Presidential Bubble HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In two years, President Trump has reshaped the idea of America for his supporters. They repeat… more ›

• The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces

  November 2, 2018

      U.S. special operations forces are doing more things in more places than ever before. They are now active in some seventy countries and, since 2001, have seen their… more ›

• Globalization Is Not in Retreat

  June 3, 2018

  Globalization Is Not in Retreat » By many standard measures, globalization is in retreat. The 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession brought an end to three decades of rapid… more ›

• State of the World 2018: Bruce Sterling and Jon…

  January 6, 2018

  State of the World 2018: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky » 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought blustery political cultures, a year of normalized psychosis amplified by media distortion,… more ›

• The Death of Sergei Magnitsky (with Bill Browder)

  October 27, 2017

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• The Resistible Rise of Xi Jinping

  October 19, 2017

  The Resistible Rise of Xi Jinping » China’s 19th Party Congress began Wednesday with a three-and-a-half-hour speech by Xi Jinping, a telling sign of a man who knows he has… more ›