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The green shoots of COVID solidarity

Rich-country governments must deliver on their solidarity promises. They need to donate vaccine doses immediately to protect frontline health-care workers in vulnerable countries.
Mar 06, 2021
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The brutal governance lessons of 2020

The pandemic has revealed the urgent need to build connective tissue across governments and between national and sub-national institutions in the US and the UK.
Jan 03, 2021
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Multilateralism will survive the great fracture

China and the US will use multilateralism, formal and informal, to protect the system within which they have flourished and to solidify the alliances with which they intend to chart their future course.
Oct 02, 2020
OPINION

When Viruses Turn Political

OXFORD – Before the coronavirus exploded into the news, a report by the World Health Organization warned that the world was not prepared for “a fast-moving, virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic” that could kill 50-80 million people, cause panic and instability, and seriously affect the global econ...
Feb 16, 2020
OPINION

Is Huawei More Dangerous than Facebook?

OXFORD – The United States and some of its allies have acted decisively to exclude the Chinese technology company Huawei from their national markets, yet they continue to ignore the similar threat posed by Facebook and other US digital giants. Democratic governments must now be equally decisive in d...
Jan 01, 2020
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Britain’s post-Brexit choices

With the UK set to hold a crucial parliamentary election on December 12, it still is not clear whether, when, and how Brexit will happen
Nov 07, 2019
OPINION

Democracies in danger

India, the UK, and America are each “model” democracies. In each of these great democracies,  minorities are under attack, as are the conventions that restrain executive power
Aug 15, 2019
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Can multilateralism survive?

The Sino-American conflict is already replacing globally agreed rules with the exercise of raw power, as each side wrestles for access to resources and markets
Jul 10, 2019
OPINION

Protesting in the digital age

OXFORD – Elections and referenda are just two ways for people to have a say in how they are governed. Protesting is another, which is why rights of assembly and free speech are protected in most democracies.
May 01, 2019
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Brexit’s lost world

When Britain leaves the EU, it will be forced to negotiate with the Chinese on its own, without the leverage of Germany, which has far stronger bilateral trade ties with China
Feb 25, 2019