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WHAT'S NEXT?: Break up of traditional political structures is on the cards in many parts of the world as technology brings challenges to slow and bureaucratic decision-making. New forms of more agile democratic structures are likely to emerge.

[New] China is not the only source of vaccines and medicine; the US, in partnership with Japan, India, Australia (fellow members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue), and the EU, have an opportunity to step in.
[New] The United Nations has said it hopes to raise $3.85bn to prevent large-scale famine in Yemen, warning that life in the war-ravaged nation was unbearable, with children enduring a special kind of hell.
[New] FPs overwhelmingly believed that global issues such as trade restrictions, pandemics, or climate change will increase the potential for drug shortages.
[New] Going big meant that the US could vaccinate its population quickly but then have that capacity available to vaccinate the rest of the world.
[New] Britain has vaccinated 19 million people, 35% of all adults, with at least one dose and says it plans to reach the whole population by the end of July.
[New] Nigeria's population is set to spike to 400 million people by 2050, which would make it the world's third-largest country and investors believe the opportunity to invest there is better than ever.
[New] The United States could surge the right combination of people, resources, and authorities to the NFIUs to create a parallel convergence early-warning fusion cell.
[New] National Security Strategy declared that the return of great power competition with Russia and China is the greatest threat to U.S. national security.
[New] WHO and UNICEF have played a key role supporting the national vaccination plan, also ensuring that the vaccination effort starting today first reaches priority groups, including health care workers and other at risk groups.
[New] There is a need to consider some kind of emergency measures to help Hong Kongers who are under a very high risk of political persecution to get out of Hong Kong.
[New] The U.S., Canada and other governments should work in coordination to take actions that disabuse Beijing of the belief that it could extend its coercion to Taiwan.
[New] The Special Committee recommends that the Government of Canada also specifically seek to proactively warn people who are travelling to Hong Kong about the new situation, including via - but not limited to - updated travel advisories.
[New] In summary, 2021 will be a super year for climate policy, and while international policymakers will remain fixated on ambitious target - setting, national policymakers in advanced economies will begin the work of translating ambition into hard policy action.
[New] While the pursuit of ambitious revised climate targets will occupy the international climate policymaking in 2021, expect national governments and policymakers to start waking up to the urgent reality that climate ambition will need to be backed up by tangible climate policy action.
[New] As governments around the world look to expand non-fossil power generation, hydro is expected to see strong business opportunities in the coming years.
[New] Today, pastoralists globally, are faced with myriad challenges and opportunities arising from economic development, social change, climate change, conservation, and sedentarization policies, population growth, and war or conflicts.
[New] Regulating commercial hospital prices is a direct way to create significant reductions in spending, but doing so could potentially lead to hospital closures, erode quality, and face daunting political hurdles.
[New] The reason China is manufacturing 1.2 million electric vehicles a year is because their government said we will support anyone who's got the go to set up auto.
[New] The United States will begin tracking people who arrive from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea, two countries facing Ebola outbreaks.
[New] The National Security Agency and Microsoft are advocating for the Zero Trust security model as a more efficient way for enterprises to defend against today's increasingly sophisticated threats.
[New] Beginning next week, the U.S. government will funnel travelers from DRC and Guinea to six U.S. airports.
[New] The U.S. government must take the necessary next steps to secure justice for Khashoggi, hold the Saudi government accountable, and ensure that other would-be human rights abusers know there will be no more impunity for attacks on journalists and press freedom.

Last updated: 03 March 2021

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