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Sudan’s exchange rate reform opens path to debt relief

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SUDAN

The move opens the door to expanded international aid and debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, but at the cost of increased economic pressures…

Easing of tensions will prove temporary in Venezuela

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VENEZUELA

Speculation around some form of military intervention to remove President Nicolas Maduro has subsided, with a stepping up of international efforts to find a negotiated solution to…

Prospects for Iran in 2020

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PROSPECTS 2020

Prospects for Iran in 2020.

Added US sanctions on Syria may prove self-defeating

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SYRIA/US

This comes as the US Congress is finalising a bill, the Caesar Act, that would substantially increase the sanctions pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. As…

Washington’s interests will dominate US-ASEAN summit

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US/ASEAN

The event was originally due to take place in March but was postponed because some South-east Asian leaders could not attend on the scheduled dates. Washington and ASEAN are…

US aid bill's passage shows foreign policy fault lines

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UNITED STATES

The Biden administration originally introduced the package in October, and its subsequent convoluted, and often stalled, passage through Congress demonstrates a range of complex…

China's role as trading hub for Russia will grow

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CHINA/RUSSIA

China has become an economic bridge, reselling Russian resources to the West and Western manufactured goods to Russia. This is primarily economic opportunism rather than…

North Korean weapons testing is just a matter of time

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NORTH KOREA

Also today, South Korea’s defence ministry confirmed that joint military exercises with US forces will go ahead next month. A new summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim…

Pacific Islands will resist Chinese influence

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CHINA

By many metrics, this influence remains significantly less than that of Australia and New Zealand. However, the Solomon Islands’ conclusion of a security agreement with Beijing in…