Seizing Business Opportunities in China’s Transition Towards a Nature-positive Economy

From forbidding moonscape to verdant grassland in a decade. Here are the benefits of China investing in nature. Read more about the New Nature Economy Insight Report – January 2022 published by the World Economic Forum

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Taliban 2.0 aren’t so different from the first regime, after all

The Taliban’s last regime, in the mid-1990s, was marked by human rights violations, including massacres, mass detentions and rape. The regime collapsed on Nov. 14, 2001, shortly after the U.S. launched its global war on terrorism. The only indication of a “new Taliban” is a much more sophisticated and strategic public relations approach for masking ongoing human rights violations.

By Atal Ahmadzai & Faten Ghosn

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The Naga Peace Process: Why a Delayed Settlement

The opinion provides key factors and observations into the dynamics of the Naga peace process in a brief manner. It looks at the progress of the negotiations, the roles of the key players, the issues that arose along the way, and the way forward.

By Augustine R.

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Kim Jong Un’s decade in power: Starvation, repression and brutal rule – just like his father and grandfather

Kim Jong Un’s first decade in power has seen a continuation of the deadly repression and failed policies that have kept North Koreans living in fear and under the threat of starvation for the last 70 years.

By Sung-Yoon Lee

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Nepal-China Cross-Border Railway Connectivity and India’s Quandary

Despite New Delhi’s long strategic influence in Kathmandu, the Nepal-China engagement is raising the question of whether the Indo-Nepal cross-border railways will becomes a dud and ends up in a state of strategic quandary.

By Augustine R.

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