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Up in the Air: Ten Global Summits That Will Test Joe Biden in 2021
The global agenda facing Joe Biden is the most daunting any U.S. president has confronted in decades. The future of international security, freedom, prosperity, development, health, and indeed of the planet itself are all up for grabs in 2021.
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2020: The year French soft power took a body blow
From boycotts of French products in parts of the Muslim world to international condemnations of the government’s attempts to gag the press while waving the flag of liberty, France had a rough ride on…
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Global Britain
THE recent bonhomie between India and the United Kingdom during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic indeed comes as a real surprise. The Indo-UK bilateral ties during the recent times cant be labelled as one very strong or warm. One reason for this might be due to the wrong decisions or priorities set by the continuing British Governments.
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Digest year-ender for international stories for month of May, 2020
May 2:Washington: The US has committed over USD 775 million in emergency health, humanitarian and economic assistance that will help over 120 countries in fighting the pandemic, the State Department has said, as the deadly disease claimed over 230,000 lives and infected over 3.3 million people.
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India beckons UK to Asia, but really Washington's bidding
After all, the UK is an extraterritorial power and India has an instinctive vigilance against it.
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Britain has lost the EU. Can it find a role?
“Global Britain” is a fine idea, but it requires hard choices and re-engagement with Europe
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With his post-Brexit trip to India, UK PM Boris Johnson aims to send a statement of intent
One of the unintended consequences for the UK of the coronavirus crisis and Brexit has been that Boris Johnson’s premiership has involved very little international travel recently — and what there has been was mainly limited to Europe. That will change in 2021, potentially dramatically, as he attempts to look beyond the continent to drive forward a new “Global Britain” campaign.
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Can UK draw in India to boost its Asia-Pacific strategy?
The increasingly severe social and livelihood issues in the UK are inherently connected to its high-profile anti-China foreign policy.
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Why BoC's Tiff Macklem keeps a picture of G7 leaders at the height of the 2008 crisis | The Chronicle Herald
Tiff Macklem, who took over as Bank of Canada governor in the first week of June, still hasn’t fully decorated his office. The camera on Macklem’s computer caught a bit of his wooden desk during our interview on Dec. 16, but the walls behind him
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The Guardian view on Britain’s global role: shrinking around Brexit | Editorial
Editorial: In a world of superpower rivalry, the UK must urgently rebuild the strategic alliances that were sabotaged by its departure from the EU
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