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Is Asia’s development machine stuttering?

With their own development banks, China and Russia want to provide an alternative to the West. But the war in Ukraine has dealt them a big blow

By Paola Subacchi

Reuters

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Indonesia: a new mediator between Russia and Ukraine?

Indonesia tries to play the role of mediator between Ukraine and Russia — to preserve its neutrality and save its G20 presidency

By Hans Mathieu

Reuters

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Western disunity over China

At the G7 Summit in Germany, the West was trying to demonstrate unity. Yet the idyllic image quickly started to crack at the mention of China

By Felix Lee

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A flexible and united Europe is a strong Europe

The war in Ukraine exposed the EU’s weaknesses: inflexibility, lack of unanimity and a weak security policy. Now is the moment to overcome them

By Nicoletta Pirozzi

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Stigmatise nuclear weapons!

The Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was a signal at the right time. Nuclear threats are unacceptable

By Anne Balzer

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China to the rescue?

Who could soften the dire effects of the war in Ukraine on the Global South? China could — by selling its US assets and launching a special fund

By Branko Milanović

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How Russia is trying to compete with NATO

Through the CSTO, Russia is trying to become a regional peacekeeper, but it is unlikely that the organisation can be an alternative to NATO

By Rosa Turarbekova

Reuters

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A strong northern deterrence: Sweden and Finland want to join NATO

With its war of aggression Russia has united NATO, persuading Sweden and Finland to revert a decades long policy of neutrality

By Kate Hansen Bundt

Reuters

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How the West can win back the Central African Republic

To shake Russia’s position in the Central African Republic, Europe needs to stop reducing the country to a geopolitical sideshow

By Tim Glawion

Reuters

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Moldova’s neutrality dilemma

As a neighbour of Ukraine and with its own breakaway region, Moldova finds itself in a changed security context where it must rethink its neutrality

By Denis Cenusa