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Sophie provides analysis on issues on politics and strategy, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific.

Strengthening trade ties a key issue when Germany’s Merkel visits Nigeria
- Daily Brief
- August 31, 2018
Today, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and members of the business community in Nigeria, concluding
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Australia’s new PM travels to Indonesia to announce trade deal, strategic partnership
- Daily Brief
- August 30, 2018
Australia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Scott Morrison will visit Indonesia today to announce a new free trade agreement between the
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Japan’s foreign minister to officially open soft diplomacy institute in Los Angeles
- Daily Brief
- August 24, 2018
As part of a six-day tour around Honolulu, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono will today
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US to impose $16bn of additional sanctions on Chinese goods this Thursday
- Daily Brief
- August 23, 2018
Washington is set to impose $16 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods today, raising the total tariffs imposed
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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to address democracy, Rohingya issues in Singapore speech
- Daily Brief
- August 21, 2018
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will today deliver a high-profile speech on her country’s democratic transition and is expected
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Malaysian PM hopes to recalibrate Chinese investment on trip to Beijing
- Daily Brief
- August 17, 2018
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will visit China today, marking his first visit as head of the new Malaysian government.
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Russia to launch long range bomber as $300bn military modernisation program ramps up
- Daily Brief
- August 16, 2018
Today, Russian aerospace company Tupolev will unveil its upgraded long-range missile-carrying bomber, the Tu-22M3M, in Kazan. This bomber marks the
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China, Russia to hold strategic security talks amid economic measures from US
- Daily Brief
- August 14, 2018
Member of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Political Bureau, Yang Jiechi will co-chair the 14th round of China-Russia strategic
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Presidential candidates to be nominated in Indonesia ahead of April vote
- Daily Brief
- August 10, 2018
Today is the deadline for registration of presidential candidates for Indonesia’s April 2019 election. So far, incumbent President Joko Widodo
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Inflationary pressures put slight dampener on Philippine economic growth
- Daily Brief
- August 9, 2018
Officials in the Philippines will release the country’s economic growth figures for the three months to June. Analysts in the
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Democrats hope Ohio’s 12th congressional special election will herald start of Blue Wave
- Daily Brief
- August 7, 2018
Democrat Danny O’Connor and Republican Troy Balderson will go head-to-head in a special Congressional election in Ohio’s 12th district today.
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Foreign ministers from North and South Korea to attend ASEAN regional security summit
- Daily Brief
- August 4, 2018
Today, the foreign minister of North Korea, Ri Yong-ho, will attend ASEAN’s Regional Forum. It will be the first time
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Iranian foreign minister to sign ASEAN friendship as ties strengthen
- Daily Brief
- August 3, 2018
While all eyes are fixated on the US and Iran as their war of words continues to escalate following US
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Iraq faces new political uncertainty as mandates of parliament and government expire
- Daily Brief
- June 30, 2018
Today, the four-year term limit of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi comes to an end, but Baghdad is still without a
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Business and government leaders to discuss progress on China’s Belt and Road
- Daily Brief
- June 28, 2018
The BRI aims to reconnect ancient land and 21st-century sea trade routes throughout Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, coastal Indo-Pacific regions and the Arctic.
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French senate to vote on fast-tracking immigration processing
- Daily Brief
- June 26, 2018
Today, the French Senate will vote on a bill that aims to shorten the application process for refugee status from
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Uber to begin appeal of ban on license to operate in London
- Daily Brief
- June 25, 2018
Executives and lawyers from Uber will meet in a London court today to discuss the future of the app in the UK’s capital.
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OPEC oil ministers meet in Vienna amid pressure to drop production cap
- Daily Brief
- June 22, 2018
OPEC ministers convene in Vienna today to discuss the state of the world’s hydrocarbon market. Oil prices fell to below
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Philippines begins ceasefire with Communist Party group in renewed effort to end insurgency
- Daily Brief
- June 21, 2018
A ceasefire between the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the Philippine military will begin today, after the success
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US State Department shortens Chinese student visa’s for critical technological sectors
- Daily Brief
- June 11, 2018
Beginning today, the United States will start giving shortened visas to Chinese international students that study in critical technological and
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