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From a COVID-19 Recession to COVID-19 Depression?

It’s been roughly five months since COVID-19 lockdown measures were first put in place. That means that come September, we will have gone two...

Daily Memo: TikTok and the Tech War

TikTok and the tech war. The White House is expected to ban the popular social media platform TikTok in the coming days on grounds...

Cyprus’ Indispensable Role in the Mediterranean

In 1956, Cyprus found itself at the center of a heated debate in the United Kingdom. Amid the growing push for independence on the...

Daily Memo: Postponed Elections in Hong Kong

Delayed elections in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is pressing the pause button on its next legislative election. Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that the...

Daily Memo: Dismal German Economy Stats

Dismal German economy stats. German statistics agency Destatis released preliminary data for the second quarter on Thursday, and though final figures won’t be published...

Forecasting Russia: Strength and Weakness

Our forecast for Russia, dating back to my earliest books, was two-fold: first, that Russia would reassert itself and at least appear to be...

Daily Memo: Hedging Bets in the Asia-Pacific

Hedging bets in the Asia-Pacific. Australia’s defense and foreign ministers met with the U.S. secretaries of defense and state in Washington on Monday and...

Azerbaijan’s Slow Drift Toward Turkey

On July 12, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces clashed in the Tovuz border region – far from the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where such clashes usually...

Daily Memo: Making Moves in the South China Sea

South China Sea moves. During his annual state of the union address on Monday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ruled out allowing the U.S. to...

Racial Cycles

Slavery was the law of the land when the United States was founded, and it would take nearly a century, and a civil war,...

Daily Memo: Update on Azerbaijan-Armenia Hostilities

Update on Azerbaijan-Armenia border clashes. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry on Monday accused Armenia of violating a cease-fire 45 times over the past day using high-caliber...

The Presidential Elections in Belarus

On Aug. 9, Belarus will hold presidential elections at a time when the country has never faced so many threats from so many directions....

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