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Best of the week - 10 September 2021

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Each week BISA Director, Juliet Dryden, scours the internet for IR-related content that might interest you. Here she brings you this week's best readings and podcasts to keep you up to date with what's happening around the world.

Climate change

  • The argument that reducing populations will help curb climate change has obvious appeal, but it overlooks several inconvenient facts. Anna Louie Sussman in the New York Review of Books.

Europe

20 years after 9/11

United States

China

  • How China weaponised the press. A small Hong Kong newspaper illustrates how Beijing uses the tools of a free society to suppress freedom itself. Timothy McLaughlin in the Atlantic.

Middle East

Afghanistan

Around the globe

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