9 julio, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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9 julio, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Daniella Medeiros Cavalcanti, PhDa ∙ Lucas de Oliveira Ferreira de Sales, PhDa ∙ Andrea Ferreira da Silva, PhDa ∙ Elisa Landin Basterra, MScb,c ∙ Daiana Pena, MScb,c ∙ Caterina Monti, MAb,c ∙ Gonzalo Barreix, MScb,c ∙ Natanael J Silva, MScb,c ∙ Paula Vaz, PhDe ∙ Francisco Saute, PhDf ∙ Gonzalo Fanjul, MPAb ∙ Prof Quique Bassat, PhDb,c,d,f,g,h,i ∙ Prof Denise Naniche, PhDb,c ∙ Prof James Macinko, PhDj ∙
7 julio, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Sun 6 Jul 2025 07.00 CEST
The United Nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortfalls. Now an entrenched problem is becoming an acute crisis in the shadow of Donald Trump’s executioner’s axe. The US is the biggest contributor, at 22%, to the UN’s core budget. In February, the White House announced a six-month review of US membership of all international organisations, conventions and treaties, including the UN, with a view to reducing or ending funding – and possible withdrawal. The deadline for decapitation falls next month.
Trump’s abolition of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and scrapping of most aid programmes, has already badly damaged UN-led and UN-backed humanitarian operations, which rely on discretionary funding. Yet Trump’s axe symbolises a more fundamental threat – to multilateralism and the much-battered international rules-based order. The basic concept of collective responsibility for maintaining global peace and security, and collaboration in tackling shared problems – embodied by the UN since its creation 80 years ago last week – is on the chopping block.
7 julio, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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The Life of the Party: Past and Present Constraints on the Future of the Chinese Communist Party
This compendium examines persistent patterns and new developments in Chinese politics since the party’s founding in July 1921.
Preface and Introduction
Isaac Kardon
The Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace studies disruptive security, governance, and technological risks that threaten peace, growth, and opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region, with an enduring focus on China. This compendium of essays on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by some of the world’s leading China scholars advances Carnegie’s long-standing commitment to rigorous, insightful, and policy-relevant research at a moment when a sober and strategic approach to China has never been more essential—or more difficult to define and achieve.
In Xi Jinping’s “new era,” students of Chinese politics face diminishing access to reliable sources. They must contend with biased or absent data, dwindling access to Chinese scholars and officials (and lack of candor when access is possible), and closed doors to archives, conferences, and meetings that, at least for a brief period of relative liberalization, were previously open. The avenues for substantive interactions between Chinese and American scholars that were being institutionalized in universities and think tanks during that “old era” have narrowed dramatically, due to restrictions on both sides.
7 julio, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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v @BBC
Dominic Casciani
There are extraordinary secret surveillance images – now largely forgotten – that in their own grainy and mysterious way, tell the story of missed opportunities that maybe, just maybe, could have stopped the horrific suicide attacks that took place in London 20 years ago.
They are images of the ringleader of the 7/7 bombings – first caught on camera at an al-Qaeda-associated training camp in the Lake District in 2001.
Two more images from 2004 show him – name and intentions then unknown – meeting a different cell of bomb plotters outside London and being followed by an MI5 team as he made his way back to Leeds.
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Malgré des moyens considérables dédiés à la guerre globale contre le terrorisme, la menace djihadiste n’a pas disparu.
6 julio, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Climate change is having major health impacts around the world – which are only expected to increase as our planet gets warmer. These impacts range from heat stroke to the spread of tropical diseases, from hospitals losing power during extreme weather to the effect on our mental health. In this week’s show, Graihagh Jackson talks to two doctors from Malaysia and Egypt about the challenges the medical sector faces, as well as possible solutions and how healthcare must also address its own emissions problem.
Guests:
Dr Jemilah Mahmoud, Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Malaysia.
Dr Omnia El Omrani, Vice-Chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance,
Presenter: Graihagh Jackson