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Four reasons next week’s COP29 might be meh
The 29th edition of the UN’s climate talks (the Conference of Parties, or COP) kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan this Monday and we wouldn’t judge if you had no idea. That’s mostly because we’re not the judging type — listen to all the ABBA you want. But also because the US presidential election has been […]
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In Peru, Trump looms large as Xi and Biden meet alongside APEC leaders
With approval ratings hovering at 4%, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte had been keeping a low profile, with no press appearances for 100+ days and a quiet official calendar to boot. But this week, she flung open Lima’s doors to host some of the world’s most powerful players at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. From […]
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📣 WHAT THEY SAID Neil Thomas Fellow on Chinese Politics, Center for China Analysis Asia Society Policy Institute 🍰 “China wants to have its cake and eat it too. It wants to be seen as a global leader. It wants to be seen to be playing an important role in stabilizing and shaping the direction of important […]
Why Germany’s ruling coalition just collapsed
Remember group projects? Everyone’s there, technically working together, but barely clicking on the same Google doc tab? Just awful. But that’s exactly what Germany opted for with its ‘traffic light’ coalition government between three parties back in 2021. And why did that coalition just collapse? Three reasons. First, the coalition itself was an uneasy arrangement. The main characters included: […]
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