Syria’s Surprising Solar Boom: Sunlight Powers the Night in Rebel Idlib
May 19th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how Syrians in a poor, embattled enclave have turned en masse to solar panels to charge their phones and light their homes and tents: When the Syrian [...]
Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia: Kazakhstan
May 19th, 2021 Via Jamestown Foundation, an article on the Digital Silk Road and its influence in Kazakhstan: This is the second of a three-part series describing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) growing [...]
May 19th, 2021 Via Jamestown Foundation, an article on the Digital Silk Road and its influence in Kazakhstan: This is the second of a three-part series describing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) growing [...]
China’s Belt And Road Initiative: More Misses Than Hits
May 19th, 2021 Via Eurasia Review, analysis of China’s BRI to date: China’s Silk Road OBOR (One Road One Belt) project A fluid and evolving concept, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been mired in [...]
May 19th, 2021 Via Eurasia Review, analysis of China’s BRI to date: China’s Silk Road OBOR (One Road One Belt) project A fluid and evolving concept, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been mired in [...]
Why the Motorbike Delivery Driver is a Symbol of Our Times
May 14th, 2021 Courtesy of Emerging World, an interesting look at how motorbike riders serve as vital arteries of the global food delivery industry, especially in the emerging world: Jet-lagged from a long flight [...]
May 14th, 2021 Courtesy of Emerging World, an interesting look at how motorbike riders serve as vital arteries of the global food delivery industry, especially in the emerging world: Jet-lagged from a long flight [...]
Thriving Djibouti Benefits From Its Strategic Location
May 14th, 2021 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Djibouti: At the top of a lighthouse in a deserted headland, Ali Hassan Ali points across the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, to war-ravaged Yemen. Then, behind [...]
May 14th, 2021 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Djibouti: At the top of a lighthouse in a deserted headland, Ali Hassan Ali points across the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, to war-ravaged Yemen. Then, behind [...]
Sudan Opens For Business
May 8th, 2021 Courtesy of Project Syndicate, a look at how – after decades of strife and bloodshed – Sudan has made significant gains in the two years since its revolution, adopting important economic [...]
May 8th, 2021 Courtesy of Project Syndicate, a look at how – after decades of strife and bloodshed – Sudan has made significant gains in the two years since its revolution, adopting important economic [...]