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The trade war between the United States and China is heating up. President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose a 10% tariff on the remaining US$300 billion of untaxed Chinese imports to the U.S. China retaliated by letting the value of its currency fall to the lowest level in more than a decade and halting all crop imports from the US. The economies of both countries are suffering, but Charles Hankla sees no end in sight.
And, in Texas, 22 people were shot dead this past weekend by a young white man. Law enforcement officials say the shooter published an anti-immigrant manifesto just before the killings began. Arie Perliger writes that issuing a manifesto is a new way of doing things for the violent far-right - not just in the U.S, but elsewhere on the globe, too.
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President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may be at a stalemate.
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
Charles Hankla, Georgia State University
Trump’s endgame for the US-China trade war still seems elusive as the conflict continues to escalate.
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Law enforcement officers walking to the scene of a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019.
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Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Major changes in the language of white supremacists have happened in the last decade that provide a window into how the groups mobilize support, shape political perceptions and advance their cause.
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Business + Economy
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Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Nord University
Ghana's experience is a cautionary tale for countries that find themselves in a situation of having too much electricity at any given point.
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Seán Mfundza Muller, University of Johannesburg
The only way out of South Africa's crisis - financially wobbly utility Eskom, worsening public finances and poor economic growth - is a societal agreement that recognises the need for sacrifices.
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Environment + Energy
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Nathalie Butt, The University of Queensland; Mary Menton, University of Sussex
The reported number of deaths of people campaigning to protect the environment has tripled over a 15 year period.
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Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Royal Holloway
Indigenous peoples safeguard biodiversity better than any other group. But in 2018, 164 were killed defending the environment. It's time for us to heed their knowledge, and protect their future.
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Moussa Diaw, Université Gaston Berger
Le défi à relever par les socialistes est de parvenir à taire les divergences et les ambitions non avouées de certains leaders pour penser l’avenir de ce grand parti légué par Senghor et Abou Diouf.
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Dennis Rodgers, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Être membre d’un gang de trafiquants de drogue peut avoir certains avantages si on cherche à se forger une vie loin de toute activité illicite.
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