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April 20, 2020

Hong Kong containment. The COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong has done to pro-democracy protests what police never quite could, and China is trying to press its advantage. On Saturday, Hong Kong police arrested 15 prominent activists, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee, on charges of joining a number of unlawful […]

South Korea After COVID-19

April 20, 2020

For a brief moment in mid-February, the South Korean city of Daegu looked like it was heading the way of Wuhan, the Chinese megacity...

Fiscal Measures to Combat the Coronavirus

April 17, 2020

(click to enlarge) As the coronavirus has spread across the globe, it has paralyzed economies. With widespread quarantines, demand has lagged, supply chains have been...

Daily Memo: Restrictions Ease and China’s Economy Contracts

April 17, 2020

It’s perhaps the worse quarter for Beijing since the 1960s.

Postponing an Oil Production Catastrophe

April 17, 2020

Fresh off helping to broker a global agreement on oil production cuts on April 12, U.S. President Donald Trump has declared American cuts a...

Daily Memo: Grim Economic Data in the U.S.

April 16, 2020

Bad news comes as tensions rise in the Persian Gulf and South China Sea.

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Prisms of Thought

April 16, 2020

When I began the Thoughts column, I explained that I was using it as a space for thinking about a new book intended to...

Daily Memo: Weighing Out Costs of the Coronavirus Crisis

April 15, 2020

WHO will pay for it? The United States has cut off its payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the agency's alleged mismanagement...

The Myth of the Middle East Regional Powers

April 15, 2020

In an April 10 teleconference meeting among Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan predicted the emergence of a new world...

Daily Memo: Disastrous Growth Forecasts and Unhealthy Banks

April 14, 2020

Economic damage assessment. The International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecast on Tuesday. The IMF is projecting the coronavirus slowdown to be the...

Coronavirus and the Peril of Politicizing Medicine

April 14, 2020

Even medical institutions are political.

Daily Memo: Food Supply Fears, Oil Supply Deals

April 13, 2020

Food supply. There are currently no major shortages of staple foods, but that hasn’t stopped consumers and governments from worrying. Last week, Romania banned...

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