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Is SCO expansion a good thing?

  Whilst the brotherhood of European Union countries has shrunk by one, the community of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) states grew by two. Whilst it is by no means confirmed that India and Pakistan are full members of the regional security organization, their membership is all but assured as long as they are able to ratify the relevant documents through ...

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After Brexit, no Reagan to May’s Thatcher

  As Theresa May takes over as U.K. prime minister, her first job is to steer the British economy past the shock of Brexit. But almost as important is the largest rewiring of British foreign policy since World War II — including its relationship with its closest ally and former colony. May becomes the 12th head of government since Winston ...

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Traders leaving London would at least escape rain

  Mark Gilbert Have you heard? The platforms of London’s St. Pancras train station and the departure lounges of its airports are packed with anxious investment bankers, ordered by their employers to relocate following Brexit. Of course, that isn’t happening at all; the U.K. decision to leave the European Union hasn’t prompted an overnight exodus. But the banks that warned ...

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