Tag: global

• Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology

  July 15, 2020

  What ideology guides the star of rising Chinese power? General Secretary Xi Jinping’s answer to this question is unequivocal: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, not any other ‘ism.’” Xi… more ›

• Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope

  July 15, 2020

  For the past decade, Jia Tolentino has been writing feverishly on the front lines of cultural warzones. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-a-sane-person-jia-tolentino-book-2020-hope more ›

• Alphabet’s Loon starts beaming internet from balloons in Kenya

  July 9, 2020

  Alphabet’s Loon project has finally launched its internet-delivery balloons in Africa following a deal with the Kenyan government. It marks a significant milestone for Loon, once one of Google’s “moonshot”… more ›

• UK government and UN commit to protect seafarers and help stabilise global shipping market

  July 9, 2020

  Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today (25 June 2020) announced it will host the first international summit on the impact of COVID-19 on crew… more ›

• ‘The Invisibles’: Unseen footage of Italy’s migrant labourers at peak of COVID-19

  July 5, 2020

  Those are the words of Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian living in Italy whose work as a union leader to fight for the rights of over 200,000 migrant labourers – mostly… more ›

• Replacing CFA with Eco ‘challenges the sovereignty’ of Nigerian naira

  June 30, 2020

  The Francophone countries coming together to replace the colonial currency, the CFA Franc with the Eco, may be “a major step forward and a positive thing,” says Andrew S. Nevin,… more ›

• [Letter from Kashmir] Valley of Unrest, by Sonia Faleiro | Harper’s Magazine

  June 27, 2020

  Baramulla, a city on the Jhelum River, thirty miles northwest of Srinagar, Kashmir. All photographs from Kashmir, August 2019 © Abid Bhat. Bhat’s work was supported by the Pulitzer Center… more ›

• The Decline of the American World

  June 27, 2020

  Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le… more ›

• How the UK’s “fund of funds” influences investment financing in Africa with a long view

  June 21, 2020

  Major international banks and private equity (PE) houses have been reducing their exposure to Africa in the past few years, but, thankfully for the continent’s startups, not everyone is retreating.… more ›

• A nation on pause: coronavirus in India

  May 24, 2020

  Nilanjana S Roy   It was the beginning, though we did not know what it meant then, the river of men and women eddying towards the Nizamuddin Railway Station in… more ›