Russia Review | August 2020
Overview • Belarus: near-abroad drifting away?• Khabarovsk: a Siberian challenge• Navalny: shades of Skripal • Sputnik V: “vaccine nationalism Belarus challenge for Russia and the West The ongoing events in and around Belarus raise the prospect of yet another part of Russia’s “near-abroad” drifting away from it. The runup to the Presidential elections was marked by a controversy over […]
East Asia Digest by Ambassador Gautam Bambawale | August 2020
I Overview China:• Industrial output rises in July• India – China border situation continues to fester• Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign against the police in China• Pakistan FM Qureshi visits counterpart Wang Yi in China Japan:• Japan is warned by China not to ban TikTok• Japan marks 75th Anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki• Japanese shipping firm considers compensation for Mauritius […]
Africa Digest by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | August 2020
Crises in the Sahel Mali coup. A military coup in Mali highlights the multiple challenges facing the governments in Africa’s Sahel region: multiple Islamicist insurgencies, tribal conflicts over water and land, and overall environmental degradation thanks to climate change. Mali’s embattled president, Boubacar Keita, was overthrown on August 18 by military officers who say they will […]
