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Relatives mourn the victims of the recent opioid crisis in the US.

Drug use worldwide in numbers

The millions of lives destroyed by drug abuse

While more than 60 million people are living with drug use disorders, only one in 12 of these people is in treatment. Facts and figures on global drug use.

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by Isah Shafiq

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A China-made truck for export to Africa is loaded onto a China-Africa shipping route at Yantai Port in Shandong Province.

Macroeconomics

How China’s export policy impacts the Global South

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by Wolfgang Krieger
Chinese thermal imaging cameras are exported worldwide and are increasingly used for surveillance as well.

Internet governance

State sovereignty and censorship

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by Isah Shafiq
Perceptions of China vary considerably around the world, ranging from positive attitudes to viewing it as an existential threat.

Our view

Growing presence, changing course

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by Jörg Döbereiner
An African journalist flies a kite at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing.

Media

How China is expanding its media influence in Africa

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
The Chinese-built Entebbe Expressway in Uganda.

Africa

China is a main character, but Africa needs to write the script

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin in September.

International relations

Why India and China are realigning their relations

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
In 1860, a joint force of French and British troops demolished the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Illicit drugs

How opium became a pillar of the British Empire

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by Hans Dembowski
Mongolia lies between two powerful neighbours.

International Criminal Court

Why Mongolia’s legal failure to arrest Putin has only limited political impact

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by Hans Dembowski
Handicraft items figure among Nepal’s exports: woman weaving a shawl at a trade fair in Kathmandu in early 2023.

Landlocked nation

Nepal is sandwiched between two BRICS members

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
Container handling in the port of Mannheim in Germany.

China

How China is causing global shifts

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