Articles for Western Governments

A Quiet Rebellion On Gaza Brewing In U.S. — And Beyond
2 months, 2 weeks ago

A Quiet Rebellion On Gaza Brewing In U.S. — And Beyond

Huff Post  

THE HAGUE/BERLIN/PARIS/WASHINGTON — In The Hague, a serious young Dutch bureaucrat works on policies that are supposed to deter violations of human rights, from Myanmar’s crackdown on its ethnic minorities to Russians directing slaughter in Ukraine. “I and many others have warned repeatedly that this is where the administration was taking us,” Harrison Mann, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official …

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China's journey toward becoming a financial power
3 months, 3 weeks ago

China's journey toward becoming a financial power

China Daily  

File photo shows an exterior view of the People's Bank of China in Beijing. The third plenum said the country is firmly committed to accomplishing the goals for this year's economic and social development, ensuring effective implementation of macro policy, while striving to boost domestic demand, prevent and defuse risks in the real estate sector, reduce local government debt, and …

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China's journey toward becoming a financial power
3 months, 3 weeks ago

China's journey toward becoming a financial power

China Daily  

File photo shows an exterior view of the People's Bank of China in Beijing. The third plenum said the country is firmly committed to accomplishing the goals for this year's economic and social development, ensuring effective implementation of macro policy, while striving to boost domestic demand, prevent and defuse risks in the real estate sector, reduce local government debt, and …

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Owners’ names on shops: Key BJP ally RLD unhappy with diktat
5 months ago

Owners’ names on shops: Key BJP ally RLD unhappy with diktat

Hindustan Times  

The Uttar Pradesh government’s instructions to display names of owners of shops situated along Kanwar Yatra routes across the state have raised the hackles of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a key ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party. For representation only Reacting sharply to the government move, the RLD termed the order on display of names as ‘unconstitutional’, demanding its rollback. …

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How China and Russia could hobble the internet
5 months, 1 week ago

How China and Russia could hobble the internet

Live Mint  

NOT LONG ago a part of the British government asked RAND Europe, a think-tank in Cambridge, England, to conduct some research on undersea critical infrastructure. Western governments have been quietly concerned about the security of undersea cables, which carry most of the world’s internet traffic, for many years. In a war, writes Elsa Kania of the Centre for a New …

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Houthis couldn’t stop genocide, but exposed the West’s moral bankruptcy
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Houthis couldn’t stop genocide, but exposed the West’s moral bankruptcy

Al Jazeera  

They proved that the West values swift shipping at reasonable prices much more than the lives of Palestinian children. In the end, it was not the killing and maiming of tens of thousands of civilians, but a number of non-fatal attacks by Yemen’s Houthi fighters on commercial ships passing through the strategically important Bab al-Mandeb Strait that sprung Western nations …

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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria’s Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states
1 year, 6 months ago

A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria’s Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad powerful leverage with his Arab neighbors, who have been willing to bring him out of pariah status in hopes he will stop the flow of highly addictive Captagon amphetamines out of Syria. Western governments have been frustrated by the red-carpet treatment Arab countries have given Assad, fearing that …

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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria's Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states
1 year, 6 months ago

A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria's Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad …

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Sudanese stuck as passports locked in abandoned Western embassies
1 year, 7 months ago

Sudanese stuck as passports locked in abandoned Western embassies

Al Jazeera  

Sudanese visa applicants are trapped in a war zone after Western diplomats evacuated Khartoum without returning their passports. Mahmoud is one of the hundreds of Sudanese visa applicants – maybe even thousands – now trapped in war zones after Western diplomats evacuated the country without returning their passports. Sudanese nationals, whose passports are locked up in evacuated Western embassies in …

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The Global South has the power to force radical climate action
2 years, 5 months ago

The Global South has the power to force radical climate action

Al Jazeera  

During the past several years it has become clear that the international climate negotiations are failing to address the climate crisis. To manage such an energy descent, rich nations would need to abandon capitalist growth as an objective and shift to a post-growth, post-capitalist system, where production – and energy use – is organised around meeting human needs rather than …

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Watching Cambodia’s Commune Elections
2 years, 6 months ago

Watching Cambodia’s Commune Elections

The Diplomat  

On June 5, Cambodia will go to the polls for important commune and sangkat council elections, a curtain-raiser for national elections due to be held next year. However, as the first election to be held since the CPP’s clean sweep at the 2018 national election, the conduct and outcome of the commune elections give some sense of how much political …

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War in Ukraine reached pivotal moment
2 years, 6 months ago

War in Ukraine reached pivotal moment

CNN  

Washington CNN — Ukraine’s military is burning through Soviet-era ammunition that fits older systems as the country pleads with the West to send more heavy weaponry and Russia amasses a significant artillery advantage around two strategically important cities in eastern Ukraine. Western intelligence and military officials believe Russia’s war in Ukraine is in a critical stage that could determine the …

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The rise of the rouble amid the Ukraine invasion
2 years, 8 months ago

The rise of the rouble amid the Ukraine invasion

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Russian rouble has staged an impressive recovery after it lost about half of its value in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These sanctions included cutting off many Russian banks from the SWIFT payments signalling system and also freezing the Russian central bank’s foreign reserves held abroad. The freezing of the Bank of Russia’s …

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Myanmar’s Oil and Gas: To Sanction Or Not to Sanction?
2 years, 11 months ago

Myanmar’s Oil and Gas: To Sanction Or Not to Sanction?

The Diplomat  

Since the military coup in Myanmar 11 months ago, the reaction of the West has been rhetorically strident but politically ineffective – at least thus far. At the top of the list of proposed targets is the state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, which, according to a United Nations human rights expert, “represents the single largest source of revenue to …

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Western companies can learn several lessons from H&M scandal
3 years, 8 months ago

Western companies can learn several lessons from H&M scandal

China Daily  

A woman walks past a store of the Swedish fashion retailer H&M at a shopping mall in Beijing, March 24, 2021. All Western companies can learn several lessons from the H&M scandal. It was completely unnecessary and highly disrespectful of H&M to say that it's "deeply concerned" about what many in the world are increasingly beginning to realize are nothing …

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