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Democracy and society

China’s Olympic-sized challenge

The upcoming start of the Beijing Winter Olympics has added pressure on China to fight Omicron. But its ‘zero Covid’ strategy is unsustainable

By Björn Alpermann

Reuters

Economy and ecology

India's farmers want the agrarian crisis to end

With the largest protest in human history, India's farmers forced the Modi regime to repeal the neoliberal farm laws. But the struggle isn't over yet

By D.K. Giri, T.N. Prakash Kammardi

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Economy and ecology

China's new road to prosperity?

China has achieved unprecedented growth and poverty reduction — at the cost of rising inequality. Now, the CCP looks to rebalance ‘growth and sharing’

By Jiannan Guo, Lei Zhang, Jincai He

Reuters

Democracy and society

The straw that broke Kazakhstan's back

The most violent protests of the past 30 years have erupted across Kazakhstan — exposing decades of inequality, injustice, and corruption

By Paolo Sorbello

Reuters

Work and digitalisation

A Chinese law made in Europe

Inspired by the EU's GDPR, China has introduced a law to protect individuals’ personal data. It's another move to rein it the power of Big Tech

By Timo Daum

Reuters

Future of social democracy

The reality behind Squid Game

The TV show portrayed the stark inequality and brutal competition in today’s South Korea. Their origins lie in the developmentalist model of the 1970s

By Jin-Wook Shin

Reuters

Future of social democracy

How Shinzo Abe still rules Japan

In this weekend's election in Japan, the ruling LDP will most likely hold on to power — with its former leader Shinzo Abe still pulling the strings

By Sven Saaler

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

What is behind the growing Iran-Azerbaijan tension?

The war in Nagorno-Karabakh has seen regional power dynamics shift to Iran’s detriment — in particular because of Azerbaijan-Israel relations

By Rovshan Mammadli

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Can China defeat three stubborn modern inequalities?

‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’ is replicating US inequalities. There are three types — and some are more difficult to tackle than others

By Branko Milanović

Reuters

Economy and ecology

What Evergrande signals about China's economic future

Under Xi Jinping's new economic agenda 'common prosperity', China is cracking down on indebted real estate developers like Evergrande

By Alicia Herrero