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Cobus van Staden

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Cobus van Staden is a senior foreign policy researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs.

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  1. Africa’s Gathering Debt Storm
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    Africa’s Gathering Debt Storm

    Sep 2, 2020 Cobus van Staden explains why agreeing to a comprehensive loan-repayment freeze is in creditor countries' self-interest.

  2. Trump’s Travel Ban Benefits Only China
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    Trump’s Travel Ban Benefits Only China

    Feb 13, 2020 Cobus van Staden laments the long-term startegic harm caused by the US administration's racist policies in Africa.

  3. The G20’s Africa Problem
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    The G20’s Africa Problem

    Dec 1, 2018 Cobus van Staden thinks a region that will eventually comprise a third of the world's population should have a seat at the table.

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    Gender Justice Is Climate Justice

    Immaculate Atuhamize & Bertrand Badré explain why equal access to education and resources can help mitigate the effects of the current crisis.
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    China’s Policy-Induced Slowdown

    Yu Yongding blames falling growth on overly conservative monetary and fiscal policies, not structural changes.
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    Chinese Regulators Give AI Firms a Helping Hand

    Angela Huyue Zhang

    While China was an early mover in regulating generative AI, it is also highly supportive of the technology and the companies developing it. Chinese AI firms might even have a competitive advantage over their American and European counterparts, which are facing strong regulatory headwinds and proliferating legal challenges.

     thinks the rules governing generative artificial intelligence give domestic firms a competitive advantage.
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    Ending the UK’s Permanent Silly Season

    Jim O'Neill

    After years in the political wilderness, the UK Labour Party is now far ahead in opinion polls, with sensible plans for improving the country's economic performance. But to translate promises into results, any future government will have to do something about the elephant in the room: chronic under-investment.

     explains what it will take for any political party to restore hope in the country's long-term economic future.
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    Freedom Without Justice

    Slavoj Žižek considers what an Albanian Marxist philosopher can tell us about liberty in today's world.
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    Can National Reconciliation Defeat Populism?

    Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk reflect on the outcome of Slovakia's general election in the run-up to Poland's decisive vote.
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    Not Destined for War

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. rejects historical analogies implying that zero-sum conflict between the US and China is inevitable.
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    Is “Peace Through Commerce” Dead?

    Harold James doubts that new conflicts and rivalries justify a full-scale rejection of European-style economic engagement.
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.

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