Kevin is an editor and analyst for the Current Developments Team, contributing regularly to the Daily Brief. He specializes in political and security issues in Asia, particularly with respect to China.
Turkey will today release its unemployment rate for May. April’s unemployment data showed a surprising year-on-year improvement, with 2019/20 figures
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China is encroaching on the space being vacated by the US in Afghanistan, but familiar challenges remain.
READ MOREBrazil’s central bank will likely cut its interest rate by 50 basis points today as measures to counter the COVID-19
READ MOREThe US Department of Commerce will today release its report on first quarter GDP growth. The figures are expected to
READ MOREThe Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine (TCG), a group made up of representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for
READ MORESouth Koreans head to the polls today for legislative elections, the first country with a major COVID-19 outbreak to hold
READ MOREThe city of Wuhan will lift outbound travel curbs today after two months of lockdown. After seemingly overcoming the epidemic
READ MOREToday is Census Day in the US, a date meant to raise awareness about the country’s constitutionally required, ten-year population
READ MOREToday marks the deadline for bondholders to report their identities and holdings to Argentina’s economy ministry as the country attempts
READ MOREThe Vice President of the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will today
READ MOREUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak will today unveil the country’s first post-Brexit budget, a plan that aims to upgrade the nation’s
READ MORELegislators in the German state of Thuringia will vote today to choose a premier after an earlier election resulted in
READ MOREForeign ministers from the Visegrad Group of Eastern European states—Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic—will today meet with their
READ MORETurkey’s Monetary Policy Committee meets today and is expected to announce an interest rate cut from the country’s central bank.
READ MORENATO defence ministers will gather in Brussels today for a two-day meeting to discuss challenges facing the collective security alliance.
READ MOREIndonesia will temporarily halt flights to and from China today, joining a growing list of countries taking aggressive measures to
READ MOREMore than 40 world leaders will attend the fifth World Holocaust Forum today in Jerusalem amid ongoing deadlock in Israeli
READ MOREThe World Health Organisation will today convene a panel of experts to determine whether a viral outbreak in China constitutes
READ MOREFive Labour candidates will officially launch their campaigns for leadership of the party today at the first hustings in Liverpool.
READ MOREThe EU’s recently appointed trade chief, Phil Hogan, will meet his US counterpart Robert Lighthizer today as part of a
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