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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/meaning-geography-changing-not-disappearing
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Stratfor
Like so many of Stratfor's contributors, I spend a lot of time thinking about geography. In the past, I have even suggested that geography has been the main force determining the different fates of each part of the planet for the past 20,000 years. But Is the meaning of geography changing so much that it has ceased to mean anything at all?
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/06/washington-strikes-back-against-chinese-investment/
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Foreign Policy
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https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-force-a-new-american-migration
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Propublica
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
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https://www.philembassy.no/newsroom/philippines-recommits-to-achieving-a-mine-free-world-by-2025
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Phil Embassy
On behalf of the Philippines, Ambassador Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia confirmed the Philippines recommitment to the implementation of the Mine Ban Convention (Photo credit: Ambassador Vera Shatilova)
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens
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The Guardian
A far-reaching new study suggests a staggering $21tn in assets has been lost to global tax havens. If taxed, that could have been enough to put parts of Africa back on its feet and even solve the euro crisis, writes Heather Stewart
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmxhDoSAsU
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Quartz
Around the world, politicians are clamoring to shut down their borders and tighten control in a wave immigration reform. But the tiny island of Singapore—a r...
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Insight posts
Drones are patrolling our skies, blending high-tech surveillance with deep ethical debates.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/world/asia/inf-missile-treaty.html
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The New York Times
Trump administration officials say that the treaty tied their hands on China and that Russia was not complying with it, but its demise raised fears of a new arms race.
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https://future-economics.com/2015/02/17/internal-chinese-geopolitics/
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Future Economics
How can one measure China’s stability? In the West, it is common to look to Hong Kong and Tibet as litmus tests of the strength of the central Chinese government. While it is true that Hong Kong and Tibet are important places — Hong Kong because it one of China’s major financial and service centres,…
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https://www.deccanherald.com/international/india-us-agree-to-build-six-nuclear-power-plants-in-india-723137.html
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Deccan Herald
India and the US said they have agreed to build six American nuclear power plants in India, in a boost to bilateral civil nuclear energy cooperation.
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https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/08/how-george-floyds-death-reverberates-around-the-world
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The Economist
The unrest in America has cheered its foes and globalised the struggle against racism
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https://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/
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Foreign Affairs
As of 2010, nearly a third of the world's population identified as Christian. But if demographic trends persist, Islam will close the gap by the middle of the 21st century.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/eu373d/why_does_china_still_want_taiwan_back/
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Reddit
207 votes, 192 comments. Taiwan has effectively been an independent nation since around 1947, it's just the Taiwan and China don't want to formally …
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/07/metooglobalimpactinternationalwomens-day/
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Foreign Policy
In countries around the world, progress defies the backlash.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-new-silk-road-explainer/
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WE Forum
It's perhaps the biggest infrastructure project the world has ever see. It's also controversial. So why is China doing it?
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https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/05/23/in-africa-chinese-largesse-comes-at-a-price/
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International Policy Digest
China has become a payday lender and its client is most of poverty stricken Africa. China has perfected "debtbook diplomacy" artfully.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72TqrTCRH0I
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Caspian Report
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-06/how-the-u-s-has-made-a-weapon-of-the-dollar
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Bloomberg
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https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/algtd1/where_does_the_idea_of_investment_gap_in_africa/
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Reddit
SS: I feel like I have read a lot of headlines and articles over the years that claim that the US and other western countries/institutions are not …
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-million.html
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The New York Times
When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the U.S. economy.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/08/26/the-coming-migration-out-of-sub-saharan-africa/
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National Review
It could send millions to Europe.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/demography-basis-power-and-prosperity
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Stratfor
Fifty years ago, the British poet Philip Larkin saw that the world was shifting under his feet. For the '60s generation, Larkin enviously observed, sex would be all about fun: "All at once the quarrel sank … And every life became / A brilliant breaking of the bank, / A quite unlosable game." Gender relations across the past 50 years have been a little more complicated than that, but Larkin was q