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No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

- S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang HONG KONG – Following a deadly fire in a residential building in China’s Xinjiang region – which many blame on COVID-19 lockdowns – Chinese protesters have taken to the streets to demand an end to stringent pandemic restrictions. Even before the protests

Book Review: “Egypt Until Democracy”

Globalization, rapid growth of science and technology and, most importantly, communication have challenged and even transformed all the moral and

Policy Failure of the US to Address the Covid-19 Issue…

Though American leadership is claiming on that it has done a lot to contain coronavirus and the situation is totally

The Next Global Resource Crisis

LONDON – The West’s dependence on China for so-called critical minerals once worried only a handful of experts and policy

How Developing Countries Can Reach Net Zero

BEIJING – The world’s developing economies are gearing up for a fight ahead of next month’s United Nations Climate Change

The West Needs an Energy and Resource Alliance

COPENHAGEN – The old line that “history does not repeat itself, but often rhymes,” is an apt description of the

The Sirens of Appeasement

TBILISI – Wars are easier to start than to finish, and their finale rarely follows any prescribed script. But if

How to Finance Green Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, DC – To spur development and fight climate change, emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) will need huge amounts of

Fighting Polio to the Finish

WASHINGTON, DC – When I took my children to receive their polio vaccines a few years ago, I thought about

SCO: An Organization against the Hegemony and Working for an…

Samarkand declaration has clearly sent a message to the global community that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is hugely committed