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Foreign and security policy

'We won’t get anywhere without China'

To create a safe and sustainable future, we need to find ways how to cooperate with China, explains Germany's former foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel

By Sigmar Gabriel

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

The price of American hegemony in Asia

With AUKUS, the US gets serious about containing China. But Australia and Europe should ask themselves if US primacy in Asia is a worthwhile goal

By Sam Roggeveen

Pixabay

Foreign and security policy

How the world looks at the German elections

China looks to Germany for its influence in Europe, South Africa hopes for continuity, and Russia doesn't think bilateral relations will improve now

By Alexander Kallweit, Uta Dirksen, Peer Teschendorf

Reuters

Economy and ecology

We must resist corporate greenwashing

Agricultural land has become a prized investment for corporations to greenwash their operations — at the risk of exacerbating hunger worldwide

By Astrud Beringer

Canva

Foreign and security policy

A relationship without commitment

The US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership is off to a wonky start. Only time will tell how effective the meeting between Biden and Zelensky really was

By Valerii Kalnysh

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Apocalypse or cooperation?

The perfect storm of Covid-19 and climate change will create more instability. But international cooperation can still avert the worst-case scenario

By Jayati Ghosh

Economy and ecology

Towards global progressiveness

In the 1970s, Global South countries wanted a ‘new international economic order’. Now, we need a new agenda for progressives in the 21st century

By Branko Milanović

Reuters

Economy and ecology

To tackle today's crises, we need transformative realism

Neither gradualism nor moral activism will solve today's major crises — from Covid-19 to climate breakdown. Instead, we need a broad social coalition

By Marc Saxer

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Ukraine's African connection

With the fall of the Soviet Union, the once strong relations between Ukraine and African countries have come to a halt. It's time for a fresh start

By Andri Veselovsky

Reuters

Democracy and society

Global vaccination IX

The Philippines, Kazakhstan and the USA are trying to raise their vaccination rate. Some choose coercion while others are organising lotteries

By Vinzenz Huzel, Anja Wehler-Schöck, Christoph P. Mohr