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Kim is waiting for Joe — but for how long?

With problems at home to solve, Biden doesn't put a high priority on North Korea. But Pyongyang could quickly lose patience

By Herbert Wulf

Reuters

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How Biden can boost the global economy

A people's vaccine, corporate tax, climate action. A few simple steps Biden could take for a more equitable global recovery

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

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US exceptionalism is dead, long live US exceptionalism

The idea of American exceptionalism is clearly bankrupt. But Biden's foreign policy still offers a slimmed-down version of it

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

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The EU's vaccine 'non-diplomacy'

The EU disregards the Chinese and Russian vaccines. But without financial support, that's a luxury Europe's East can't afford

By Denis Cenusa

Reuters

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Unsplendid isolation: Britain after ‘Brexit’

A Biden presidency — allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ — leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role

By Paul Mason

Reuters

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Whose post-pandemic century?

Asian countries managed Covid-19 far better than the West. But it remains to be seen whether 2020 marked the beginning of a new 'Asian Century'

By Bill Emmott

Reuters

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Afghanistan is on the brink

Violence is on the rise again in Afghanistan. Amid inevitable troop withdrawals, the question of dialogue with the Taliban shifts from 'if' to 'how'

By Magdalena Kirchner

Reuters

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The far right told us what it had planned. We didn’t listen

The Capitol riots weren't Trumpism’s 'last gasp', but a performance of a long-held fantasy. And most perpetrators walked away to fight another day

By Seyward Darby

Reuters

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For a strategy of minimal deterrence

Nuclear weapons don’t have to be stationed in Germany to keep Europe safe. A minimal stockpile is all that NATO needs

By René Schlee

Reuters

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Who gets it first?

The run on the coronavirus vaccines is also about power and image. Dispatches from Serbia, Argentina and Kenya

By Svenja Blanke, Jan Siebert, Max Brändle