Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.
about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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Following the latest banking crisis, monetary authorities should seriously consider how modern digital technologies could be used to avert such problems in the future. A central bank digital currency would both eliminate many barriers to financial transactions and end the risk of bank runs once and for all.
explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
新德里——最近几周,美国总统乔·拜登阿富汗政策的战略性失策暴露无遗。首先,巴基斯坦扶持的塔利班重新控制了阿富汗,原本还期待新一届塔利班政权将有别于美国及其盟国在2001年推翻的那一届,可临时政府人员构成公布之后,这天真的期待也被粉碎。除了国际恐怖主义知名人士担任内阁成员外,毒枭还身居要职。
阿富汗鸦片种植面积占全球85%,塔利班由此成为世界上最大的贩毒集团。它控制阿片类药物的生产并对其征税,监督出口,保护走私网络。鸦片生意是塔利班的命脉所在。根据联合国安理会监测小组最近的一份报告,罂粟和合成毒品的生产和贩运仍然是“塔利班最大的单一收入来源”。塔利班对毒品交易的依赖程度如此之高,以至于各头目有时会为了利润分成而明争暗斗。
塔利班希望尽可能多地增加其毒品收入,自其上任以来,阿富汗的鸦片价格上涨了两倍多。印度位于世界上两个主要的鸦片生产中心——巴基斯坦-阿富汗-伊朗“金新月”和缅甸-泰国-老挝“金三角”之间,缴获的来自阿富汗的海洛因也是越来越多。联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室警告称,阿富汗目前面临的经济危机只会增加非法种植罂粟对当地农民的吸引力。
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