Stories from Shahid Javed Burki
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The April climate summit
Without any doubt, signals from the planet itself are lending urgency to the cause
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Afghanistan: Biden has had his way
US President inherited some difficult positions his country had adopted during ex-president Trump’s four years
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The need to focus on healthcare
A well-educated and healthier population grows more slowly than those that have high rates of mortality and illiteracy
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Globalisation and the Suez blockage
The world became smaller, “flatter” as a result of instantaneous flow of information across international frontiers
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White supremacist assaults on Asian Americans
Xenophobia in US can be traced back to Trump who made no secret of his worry that US would lose its white identity
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Covid-19 and reshaping of the international order
If Beijing was hoping for a lighter touch in relations with America under President Biden, that is not happening
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Afghanistan: the end game
How would Afghanistan be affected once Americans pull their troops out from the country after a presence of 40 years?
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Iran: the Trump-Pompeo legacy and Biden’s early moves
Pompeo was constantly in search of ways to cast Iran as the primary source of problems in the Middle East
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Pakistan-US relations in the Biden era
It is unlikely that President Biden would concern himself directly with Pakistan
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Ethnicity and nation-building
Is it possible to reconcile ethnicity to nation-building?

