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Hungary’s Orban Given Power to Rule By Decree With No End Date

Citing the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic, Hungary’s prime minister has been given powers that could prove difficult to undo.

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Colm Quinn

China Isn’t Helping Italy. It’s Waging Information Warfare.

The populist Five Star Movement has become China's chief enabler as Beijing spreads disinformation about the origins of the coronavirus while sending aid shipments to EU countries where it seeks influence.

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Mattia Ferraresi

The U.S. Government Must Prepare Now for the Next Pandemic

Trump botched the coronavirus response. The United States cannot make the same mistake again.

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Chris Murphy

Beware of Bad Samaritans

China and Russia are sending medical aid to Italy and other coronavirus-stricken countries, but their motives aren’t so altruistic.

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Elisabeth Braw

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Joseph S. Nye Jr. is a university distinguished service professor at Harvard University and the author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump.

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