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Tag: Africa

US confirms withdrawal of troops from Somalia by early 2021

5 December 2020 Editor In the news

The Pentagon has announced that by early 2021 it will withdraw about 700 troops from Somalia, where the US has been involved for an extended period in fighting a low-intensity battle against the local al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabaab.

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Russia’s President Putin approves new naval facility in Sudan

18 November 2020 Editor In the news

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Monday [16 November 2020] approved the creation of a Russian naval facility in Sudan capable of mooring nuclear-powered surface vessels, clearing the way for Moscow’s first substantial military foothold in Africa since the period of the former Soviet Union.

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Six persistent myths about China-Africa relations (Clingendael)

21 September 2020 Editor Analysis and comment, Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy

An inconvenient truth often ignored or denied is that Chinese economic activities on the African continent are not worse than (and often not even as bad as) US or European activities in Africa. Clingendael Research Associate Sanne van der Lugt presents six persistent myths about China-Africa relations based on her own research experiences.

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In the news

  • European Union and China agree investment deal
    31 December 2020
  • China to be world’s biggest economy by 2028, five years earlier than expected
    27 December 2020
  • France’s President Macron defends unconditional arms sales to Egypt
    8 December 2020
  • US confirms withdrawal of troops from Somalia by early 2021
    5 December 2020
  • Australia, US formally partner on SCIFiRE hypersonic missile program
    2 December 2020

Research & Commentary

A China strategy to reunite America’s allies (Chatham House)

16 January 2021

What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS)

29 December 2020

China to be world’s biggest economy by 2028, five years earlier than expected

27 December 2020

The US-Japan alliance in 2020: an equal alliance with a global agenda (Armitage-Nye)

17 December 2020

US-led global arms sales grew 8.5% in 2019, Australia top host of foreign arms companies (SIPRI)

7 December 2020

China and Brexit drive the UK’s Indo-Pacific ‘tilt’ (Bill Hayton)

28 November 2020

How Joe Biden can recalibrate US policy on China (Michael D Swaine)

12 November 2020

Radical pragmatism: policymaking after COVID (Gertz + Kharas)

8 November 2020

China’s grand strategy and Australia’s future in the new global order: Geoff Raby

7 November 2020

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

Most read this week

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  • China-Australia decoupling? ASPI float a hydrogen balloon 27 December 2020
  • The Indo-Pacific is a distraction: economics not geography is the strategic arena 19 December 2020
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  • National Cyber Power Index 2020: which is the world’s most powerful cyber nation? (Belfer Center) 12 September 2020
  • Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus 27 April 2020
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Latest posts

  • What should Australia want from a Biden National Security Strategy?
    20 January 2021
  • A China strategy to reunite America’s allies (Chatham House)
    16 January 2021
  • Preparing for a 3°C warmer future: the ideological shift and institutions Australia will need
    12 January 2021
  • European Union and China agree investment deal
    31 December 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS)
    29 December 2020
  • China to be world’s biggest economy by 2028, five years earlier than expected
    27 December 2020

10 most recent articles by Mike

  • What should Australia want from a Biden National Security Strategy?
    20 January 2021
  • Preparing for a 3°C warmer future: the ideological shift and institutions Australia will need
    12 January 2021
  • China-Australia decoupling? ASPI float a hydrogen balloon
    27 December 2020
  • The deceit of deterrence: a bankrupt strategic justification for defence expenditure
    23 December 2020
  • The Indo-Pacific is a distraction: economics not geography is the strategic arena
    19 December 2020
  • China-Australia relations: it’s not as simple as ABC
    18 December 2020
  • US-Japan alliance: experts point to America’s strategic reliance on Japan in Asia
    17 December 2020
  • Strategic capitalism, strategic autonomy and Australia
    5 December 2020
  • This time it’s the end of democracy: Fukuyama and big-tech
    30 November 2020
  • Strategic capitalism, geoeconomics and Australia’s choices
    26 November 2020

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