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    What ADB and Qatar’s New Partnership Means for Indonesia’s Energy Future

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    When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Doha this month, the announcement was framed as a regional milestone. The agreement establishes a framework for cofinancing infrastructure projects across Asia and the Pacific, with energy listed among several priority sectors. It does… Continue reading What ADB and Qatar’s New Partnership Means for Indonesia’s Energy Future
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      A Nation’s Rivers Remember What Was Cut Away: Indonesia’s Flood Crisis

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      Indonesia is burning and bleeding at the same time: what should be a sober, national reckoning has been turned into a ledger of permits and profit, with legal land-clearing now the dominant engine of forest loss across Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua as plantations, pulp mills and mineral concessions expand — palm oil remains a major… Continue reading A Nation’s Rivers Remember What Was Cut Away: Indonesia’s Flood Crisis
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      Through the lens of history, Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall

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      Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawnsFor those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch towers with their searchlights and armed guards, the minefields in no-man’s land, the notorious Checkpoint Charlie border post, and the Wall itself – all were swept aside in an extraordinary, popular lunge for freedom.Less than a month later, on 3 December 1989, at a summit in Malta, US president George HW Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared that after more than 40 years, the cold war was over. All agreed it was a historic turning point.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading… More

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      Reconciliation in a Broken State — Myanmar’s Civil War and the Illusion of Elections

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      In Myanmar, life has frozen. You do not move forward there; you remain suspended — between gunfire and hunger, between promises and graves. This paralysis has a name: civil war, sustained by the absence of democracy and the endurance of fear. Across Myanmar’s hills and plains, life is now measured by absence. Since the 2021… Continue reading Reconciliation in a Broken State — Myanmar’s Civil War and the Illusion of Elections
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      FO° Talks: Is Myanmar’s Junta Using Elections to Consolidate Power?

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      Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with Daniel Sullivan, Director for Africa, Asia, and the Middle East at Refugees International, about Myanmar’s planned December 28 election and why only a handful of observers believe it represents a return to civilian rule. Since the 2021 military coup, the country has remained locked in conflict,… Continue reading FO° Talks: Is Myanmar’s Junta Using Elections to Consolidate Power?
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      “America First” Means Re-Engaging with Afghanistan

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      As Washington looks away from Kabul, Moscow and Beijing are leaning in. Beijing has maintained dialogue — without formal recognition — with the new Afghan government to sustain its investments and border security. Russia, on the other hand, was the first nation to formally recognize the Taliban’s government, promising incoming investment and additional avenues for… Continue reading “America First” Means Re-Engaging with Afghanistan
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      Warnings are Escalating: Sino-Japanese Relations are Deteriorating Rapidly

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      On November 23, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave an interview to Chinese media after a strategic dialogue with the foreign ministers of three Central Asian countries, during which he spoke extensively about the current Sino-Japanese friction. Major media outlets widely reported some of his warnings because they considered these warnings quite unusual, given Wang… Continue reading Warnings are Escalating: Sino-Japanese Relations are Deteriorating Rapidly
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      Jakarta and Doha Keep Talks Alive

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      When tanks and missiles steal the headlines, the quieter tools of diplomacy — a phone call, a modest memorandum or a principled public statement — can feel faint by comparison. Yet those quieter tools are doing the world’s heaviest lifting right now. Indonesia’s recent outreach to Qatar is a vivid demonstration: a maritime, pluralist democracy… Continue reading Jakarta and Doha Keep Talks Alive
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      Australia’s Idiotic Social Media Ban

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      “More moral panics will be generated … our society as presently structured will continue to generate problems for some of its members … and then condemn whatever solution these groups find”  —  Stanley Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972)  Cohen might have been writing about Australia in 2025. By banning every child under 16… Continue reading Australia’s Idiotic Social Media Ban
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