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AssessmentsSep 11, 2025 | 22:08 GMT
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev waits to greet foreign leaders during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states leaders' summit in Astana on July 4, 2024.
How Kazakhstan's Proposed Reforms Will Impact the Question of Succession
In Kazakhstan, proposed institutional reforms are meant to tighten the regime's hold on power, but they will not guarantee a smooth transition or prevent Russian attempts to manipulate political events once President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev steps down. On Sept. 8, President Tokayev used his annual State of the Nation address to the Parliament to propose constitutional changes that would abolish Kazakhstan's upper chamber, the Senate, and create a unicameral legislature. Framed as the next phase of political reform, Tokayev's proposal calls for at least a year of public debate followed by a nationwide referendum in 2027. In a separate but related step, Tokayev also proposed an electoral change: shifting back to elections conducted exclusively by party lists. Together, these moves mark Kazakhstan's most significant political reform since the January 2022 protests, which triggered constitutional amendments that altered the composition of the Mazhilis, the lower chamber, by reintroducing a mixed electoral system
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China
Kazakhstan
Russia
Politics
AssessmentsSep 10, 2025 | 20:18 GMT
Nigerian soldiers from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) drive in pick-ups during training at the Sector 3 MNJTF military base headquarters in Monguno, Borno state, Nigeria, on July 5, 2025.
In Nigeria, Security Forces Struggle To Address Growing Militancy
The Nigerian government will likely continue prioritizing security crises based on the political and economic relevance of different regions, but myriad domestic constraints and limited regional cooperation will enable armed groups to continue to expand their range of operations and capabilities. In mid-August, the governor of northwestern Zamfara state publicly rejected the option of negotiating with armed bandits to curb their growing attacks, instead pledging to pursue them by force. His firm stance came days after reports emerged that some local government areas in neighboring Katsina state had struck peace deals with bandit groups, though the terms of these agreements remain unclear. The deals follow a recent surge in banditry characterized by killings of both civilians and security personnel, kidnappings for ransom and disruption to farming and herding -- pivotal economic sectors in northern Nigeria. While initiatives such as peace agreements with bandits aim to address insecurity, they highlight the
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Situation ReportSep 4, 2025 | 20:20 GMT
India: Government Approves Cuts to Consumption Taxes
India announced an overhaul of its goods and services tax, cutting rates on hundreds of consumer items and simplifying the structure from four tiers of 5%, 12%, 18% and 28% to two tiers of 5% and 18% to spur domestic demand amid U.S. tariff pressures, Bloomberg reported Sept. 3.
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India
Economics
SnapshotsSep 3, 2025 | 20:26 GMT
Participants of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 pose for photos in Tianjin, China, on Sept. 1, 2025.
China Positions Itself as Growth Catalyst for Central Asia at SCO Summit
China's efforts to position itself as a stable alternative to U.S. trade uncertainty will help Beijing expand infrastructure and trade ties to its neighbors in continental Asia, including Russia, but India-China relations will remain inhibited by border disputes and India's strategic balancing. From Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, China hosted the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO, in Tianjin. At the meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Governance Initiative, which aims to increase representation of what he termed the ''Global South'' (i.e., developing) nations at international bodies like the United Nations, push back against alleged unilateralism by Western powers (e.g., on sanctions and trade restrictions), and eschew global economic decoupling. He also pledged that China would set up three platforms to expand its cooperation with the SCO in energy, green industry and the digital economy, provide greater medical care to SCO nations, and support regional
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Russia
India
Economics
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Global Trade
On GeopoliticsSep 3, 2025 | 15:51 GMT
A portrait of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is seen in the background as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2025.
The Visible Hand: Trump's Interventionism Reshapes American Capitalism
In just seven months in office, Donald Trump's administration has pursued a series of highly unconventional economic policies that, taken together, amount to the deepest government interventionism into the economy of any president since the Reagan era. In doing so, Trump has largely eschewed what both parties had accepted as the tenets of American capitalism for nearly five decades -- the long-standing U.S. economic traditions that once left Adam Smith's Invisible Hand to guide the market. The Trump administration's emerging version of capitalism is one of expanded government interventionism, abandoning laissez-faire orthodoxy and centralizing authority around the president. In effect, Trump and his economic advisers want to be able to control all key aspects of economic planning, sidelining other parts of the U.S. political and economic system -- including both government institutions and the private sector.
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