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‘Friendship to all’ no longer good enough for Bangladesh

Non-alignment once carried enormous moral prestige. For newly independent states emerging from colonial rule, it was not just a foreign policy, but a fierce declaration of identity. However, the international system has fractured. Global politics is no longer divided into Cold

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Trump Accidentally Admits What He Really Thinks of MAGA Voters

Donald Trump just erupted at MAGA allies for oppposing his war. In one tirade , he attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others as “FAKE MAGA.” In another , he slammed them as “Low IQ.” Similarly, his pollster, John McLaughlin, claimed that the MAGA base “doesn’t consider”

Consensus shifting on China-style industrial policy

I’ve long been an industrial policy enthusiast. My favorite popular nonfiction book is Joe Studwell’s “How Asia Works”, a synthesis of decades of research about the economic miracles in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. I wrote a whole series of posts examining the successes and

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WWII bomb destroyed in controlled explosion in Paris

Video provided by French police shows the controlled detonation of a large bomb dating from the Second World War in Colombes. After attempts to remove the bomb’s detonator failed at midday, authorities buried it and later destroyed it in a controlled detonation.

Terminator now: Robots just seized a Russian position in Ukraine

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky recently announced that ground robots (also known as unmanned ground vehicles) had captured a Russian position. Zelenskyy said it was the first time in the Ukraine war that an enemy position had been taken exclusively by robots. Ukraine’s

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