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Editor’s note: Grzegorz W. Kolodko is a former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland, professor of political economy at Kozminski University in Warsaw, and distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School at Beijing Normal University, and the author…

A few years ago, China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry shook hands on a pledge to triple renewable energy by 2030. China took the challenge seriously, very seriously, it will meet its end-of-2030 emissions target…

NB: I do not believe that anyone should ever vote for anyone who is engaged in waging or arming wars or promising to do the same. The world is in climate collapse and on the edge of nuclear apocalypse; it’s…

The world is bleeding. Life force is leaking from a thousand wounds, and maybe the most serious hemorrhage is that issuing forth from Gaza. The wound of Gaza festers with hate, despair, and cruelty, leaching those poisons through the body…

UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.”  New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network of U.S.…

On a warm sunny day last week in Pavlovsk, the former Russian imperial residence, an orchestra was playing Strauss waltzes in front of the former imperial palace. The event commemorated the inauguration of a concert hall, the vokzal, in 1838.…

In a significant diplomatic breakthrough, China has facilitated the “Beijing Declaration,” a key development in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This agreement, which brings together 14 Palestinian political factions, signifies a major step towards Palestinian unity and a revitalized push for…

The Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is currently reviewing the draft of a proposed Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), which outlines new operational policies to better address environmental and social risks in ADB projects. This proposed…

Bangladesh witnessed an unprecedented anarchy and suffocating situation for more than a week centered on the quota reform movement. In the last four decades, such an anarchic situation has never arisen in the country. A special group, under the guise…

Ten candidates, backed by 38 parties, are running in this year’s presidential elections in Venezuela [next Sunday, July 28]. However, there is consensus that the race is centered on just two: President Nicolás Maduro and the main opposition bloc, the…