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People line up to take a nucleic acid test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a testing booth near an office building in Central Business District (CBD) in Chaoyang district, Beijing, China November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

Beijing's Chaoyang District Urges Residents to Stay Home Monday

An official of Beijing's Chaoyang district on Sunday urged residents to remain at home on Monday, as a continued rise in COVID-19 infections tests China's strict containment policy. Chaoyang…

20 November 2022
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Why We Need to Protect a Free Press Everywhere

Catching up with a friend over Zoom, I wondered recently what might have happened if China had come clean about the presence and origins of COVID-19 before it spread beyond Wuhan. But, my friend…

Elizabeth Shackelford 08 June 2021

The International Order Didn’t Fail the Pandemic Alone

As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread around the world, international organizations, struggling to keep pace with the virus’s impact, seem to have lost some of the relevance and the utility…

Thomas R. Pickering and Atman M. Trivedi 19 June 2020

Chinese Debt Could Cause Emerging Markets to Implode

The novel coronavirus has brought the world economy to a grinding halt. Global growth is set to fall from 2.9 percent last year into deep negative territory in 2020—the only year besides 2009 that…

Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca 01 May 2020

The Pandemic Won’t Make China the World’s Leader

Early this year, as the novel coronavirus began to spread inChina, the predictions were immediate and stark: the outbreak was China’s “Chernobyl moment,” perhaps even “the beginning of the end” for…

Michael Green and Evan S. Medeiros 24 April 2020

Xi Jinping Won the Coronavirus Crisis 

Two months ago, Chinese PresidentXi Jinpinglooked like he would emerge from the novel coronavirus pandemic with his legitimacy and his ambitions for Chinese global leadership in tatters. Today,…

by Yanzhong Huang 15 April 2020

Past Pandemics Exposed China’s Weaknesses

When the novel coronavirus first emerged in China’sHubei Province, foreign reactions to the country’s handling of the epidemic swung between extremes. At a press conference held inBeijingin late…

Robert Peckham 03 April 2020
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The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on 9 March 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
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Iran’s defiant regime picks a new supreme leader

09 March 2026

The appointment suggests the Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand

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Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

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Syria may escape war but not its economic fallout

08 March 2026

Even if it stays on the sidelines of the US-Iran war, the country is fragile. Unlike larger economies that can absorb shocks in global markets, it has little room to cushion the impact.

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Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

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