How Does the Chinese Public Feel About Xi’s Third Term?
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Why the public mood in China contrasts with the party state’s triumphalism, NATO deems Beijing a...
TRIPS WAIVER: Ramaphosa warns G7 leaders of new aim for patent waiver on Covid therapeutics and diagnostics
After winning what he called a breakthrough on COVID vaccines, President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned the leaders of the G7 rich countries to stick to...
COVID-19: B.A4 and BA.5 variants spur 20 per cent rise in cases
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in his weekly briefing to journalists that the global figure overall remains “relatively stable”, but nobody should be under...
Adam Tooze Is Answering Your Questions
Energy prices are surging. Food supplies are depleted. Stocks have entered bear market territory. And inflation is running at historic highs. The underlying factors for...
Safer roads, a global development challenge for all: Senior UN official
Nneka Henry, who heads the United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) Secretariat, noted that 500 children die in crashes every day, and that of the...
Hong Kong’s Dismantled Society
[ad_1] AdvertisementFor some Hong Kongers, saying farewell to family members and friends has become a common experience over the last two years. Hugs, tears, and...
Poll: China most influential power in Africa as US influence wanes – Responsible Statecraft
Poll: China as Most Influential Power in Africa Lacking US Influence - Responsible Statecraft Poll: China as Most Influential Power in Africa Lacking US Influence...
Myanmar: Shocking toll on children must be spur to action, says UN rights expert
Three months since his last update to the UN rights forum in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews,...
Italy mulls sending howitzers to Ukraine, says Dutch PM
[ad_1] MADRID — Italy “will be supplying” Ukraine with heavy weapons “similar” to the howitzers that Germany and the Netherlands are sending to the country,...
The Scots Question
In a 1975 essay, influential Scottish writer Tom Nairn raised the specter of the “vast tartan monster”: a provincialized version of Scottish culture that romanticizes rural...