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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-africa-can-benefit-china-belt-and-road-initiative-infrastructure-development
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Can Africa maximize the investment opportunities of Beijing's massive connectivity project to build the infrastructure and develop the industrial capacity that it chronically lacks?
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https://medium.com/@ryanavent_93844/the-productivity-paradox-aaf05e5e4aad#.c8hdpnn3t
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Medium
People are worried about robots taking jobs. Driverless cars are around the corner. Restaurants and shops increasingly carry the option to order by touchscreen. Google’s clever algorithms provide…
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The ongoing space race between the United States and China is on for space supremacy.
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VICE
VICE sits down with British politician and humanitarian David Miliband to talk about his work at the International Rescue Committee, the state of affairs in ...
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https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/10/03/the-battle-against-racist-language-is-too-important-to-trivialise
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The Economist
The right and wrong targets in a linguistic struggle | Culture
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-growing-population-no-longer-has-any-economic-benefit-2019-07-05
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Market Watch
Automation has turned conventional economic wisdom on its head: there is greater prosperity in fewer numbers, writes Adair Turner.
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Global political organizations increasingly use social media to control the masses, silence opposition, and erode trust in existing institutions.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/defense-department-climate-change-national-security-threat_n_5c420386e4b027c3bbc1713f?ec_carp=3376933073339406219
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Huffington Post
The military walks a fine line between the White House's official climate denialism and the stark realities of a warming planet.
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https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/chinas-place-global-order?login=1
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What will China's role be in the international order five, 10 or 15 years from now? For the foreseeable future, China will remain one of the few states credibly challenging the political, economic and military supremacy of the United States and the legitimacy of the U.S.-designed and -led international order.
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The European Commission's artificial intelligence regulatory proposal aims to promote the ethical use of AI.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/ahead-in-polls-dutch-far-right-party-vows-to-close-mosques-ban-quran/
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Times of Israel
Geert Wilders' Freedom Party, set to double its seats in elections next year, wants to close borders, reverse 'Islamization'
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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-migration-202221/
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Rolling Stone
Jeff Goodell reports: Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year and could reshape nation.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/59n9qa/climate-change-will-create-15-billion-migrants-by-2050-and-we-have-no-idea-where-theyll-go
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Vice
The climate crisis has already created millions of invisible refugees and could create up to 1.5 billion more in the next 30 years. But under international law no country is obliged to take them in.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/3-golden-rules-geopolitical-risk-team-business-enterprise
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Stratfor
To enable strategic foresight and informed decision-making, more and more businesses are establishing in-house geopolitical risk teams. Here's how such a team can provide actionable insights.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36469264
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BBC
The EU unveils a new plan to curb the influx of African migrants via Libya, building on the EU-Turkey deal reached in March.
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https://www.france24.com/en/20200328-france-issues-call-to-buy-french-as-coronavirus-erodes-single-market
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France24
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the Eurozone’s economy, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire issued a rallying cry to the nation’s supermarkets on 24 March: ‘Stock French pr…
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/biologists-approach-global-affairs
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Stratfor
The biologist's approach to answering questions is different from that of the political scientist, who typically stacks facts and premises in an orderly fashion that preferably feeds into a grand overarching theory. But the principle of Occam's razor -- a scientist favorite that argues for simpler theories being preferable to more complex ones -- only works in areas that are simple enough to be ex