Background: Russia made progress last year shoring up its southern and western border areas, by placing peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh and siding with Belarus’ embattled president, respectively. Moscow, however, has paid less attention to its buffer farther east. This could be changing. What Happened: A Russian lawmaker said on state TV last month that Kazakhstan owed […]
Introduction
Our 2020 global forecast began as follows:
Economic dysfunction will remain the main driver of the international system in 2020. Economic stress does not simply...
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Global
Economic dysfunction will be the main driver of the international system in 2020. Economic stress...
The American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, in collaboration with German firm BioNTech, surprised the world when it announced that its coronavirus vaccine showed 90 percent...
Turkish troops headed for Azerbaijan. The Turkish parliament approved a presidential decree to send troops to Azerbaijan for one year to help Russian peacekeepers...
The U.S. goes after Chinese finance. On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning investment in more than 30 Chinese companies...
China’s next five-year economic playbook. The Fifth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee kicked off on Monday morning, with Chinese leaders gathering...
Suga in Vietnam. New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga isn’t wasting time taking advantage of Southeast Asian countries’ desire for deeper regional involvement from...
Kyrgyz president resigns. With protests over the results of Oct. 4 parliamentary elections showing no sign of stopping, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his...
