By TAN SRI HASMY AGAM and ANIS BAJREKTAREVIC The COVID-19 situation is a very worrying, indeed, alarming matter, not just as a global health and biosafety issue, but potentially as a global security challenge, as well. While the pandemic is being dealt with by the World Health Organisation (WHO), along with other relevant United Nation specialized agencies, the situation
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A look at the freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the United States and European Union: The World Trade Organization (WTO) Round is dead, trade wars are alive, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is rapidly Pakistan-izing while Asia’s core and its Far East are slowing
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A major new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was just released in Korea on Oct. 8, and although it is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references, it can be summarized in few sentences: The average global temperature is now 1 degree Centigrade above its pre-industrial levels. That increase is already
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