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Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Belt and Road Initiative and China’s diplomacy

Pushkar Pushp It has been more than a week since Russia has launched a war against Ukraine. The United state and its allies have already put sanctions on Russia. These sanctions aim to weaken its financial assets and the military. However, as we monitor the Russian invasion of …

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The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Global Financial Markets

Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, the global capital markets had experienced the initial plunge on February 24, and then stabilized and rebounded in the second trading day on February 25. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed up collectively, with the Dow Jones industrial average, the …

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Geopolitics of Critical Minerals Towards Energy Transition

Akhmad Hanan and Mayora Bunga Swastika There is no denying that all countries in the world should use clean energy in the future. Based on the agreement at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasglow and several other important international meetings, several countries …

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Policies should prioritize the poor and the vulnerable as the economy is projected to recover in 2022

The Malaysian economy is projected to expand by 5.8 percent in 2022, as domestic and external demand recovers, according to the latest edition of the World Bank Malaysia Economic Monitor: Staying Afloat, launched today. The forecast for the year ahead follows growth estimates of 3.3 percent in 2021. …

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China, Vietnam, Philippines and United States Sustainability in the South China Sea

Nabil Akram Supremacy of any world power depends upon its control over the important Geo-strategic places. A hegemon must have influence over the Geo-strategic places. This rule is generally applied for every world super power. Other factors like the will to lead, economic, political and military factors are …

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Outlook 2022: Emerging markets

Andrew Rhymer Going into 2022, emerging markets are far better equipped to deal with Covid-19 than a year ago. Economic growth is slowing after the post-pandemic bounce amid a slowdown in China, and tighter monetary and fiscal policy elsewhere in emerging markets. If inflationary pressures ease, so should …

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On the Depth, Transparency and Power of Today’s AI

Anton Kolokin Two years into our last review on state of the artt in the area of artificial intelligence, there has been a widening gap between the seeming omnipotence of neural network models based on “deep learning”, which are offered by market leaders, and the demand for an …

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Slowly Imploding?

James Dorsey The Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city of Gwadar — the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded. For the past month, mass protests have swept Gwadar, a Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city 90 kilometers from the …

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Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Security Studies

Zaeem Hassan Mehmoud “Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions. Each period therefore, would have held its own theory of war, even if the urge had always and universally existed to ensure security on scientific principles”              -Carl von …

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