Links — 20 Jan 2021

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Sixth Tone (the reformed CCP)The Decades-Old Move That Got the CCP Through the COVID-19 Crisis Zhou KaiBRICSNavalny is a power-hungry, unpopular politician: not Russia's MandelaJohanna Ross, journalist based in Edinburgh, ScotlandIrrussianalityIronicPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of OttawaOilpriceWestern Companies Abandon Russia-Led Nord Stream 2 ProjectTsvetana ParaskovaProgress in Political Economy (long)Revisiting Neoliberalism and Democracy in a Time of CrisisDavid Primroseeconomic intersectAn Open Letter to President BidenFrank Li | Chinese ex-pat, Founder and President of W.E.I. (West-East International), a Chicago-based import & export company, B.E. from Zhejiang University (China) in 1982, M.E. from the University

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