Wilson In the News
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After the Deluge (Dawn)
“It is time for our press to start tracking the relief and rehabilitation efforts. What’s the tally for government expenditure on the flood response? How much foreign aid has flowed in? Where has it been disbursed? To what end?” -Global Fellow Huma Yusuf
Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis Is Still Spiraling (Foreign Policy)
“In recent weeks, Colombo’s new government has settled in and received help from bilateral and multilateral donors. Despite this aid, Sri Lanka’s economy continues to sputter, and core public grievances remain unresolved. The country still seems like a powder keg—susceptible to more mass protests—particularly if the public faces new austerity measures.” -Michael Kugelman
N.Korea launches a flurry of missile tests (CNN)
“I think the latest missile test is just a precursor of what will come, and there will be several nuclear tests, possibly of a tactical nuclear weapon.” -Sue Mi Terry
Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women (New Yorker)
“Despite the dangers of arrest and death, Iranian women of disparate ethnicities have united in imaginative ways... On Wednesday, a video widely shared on social media captured schoolgirls in Tehran giggling at their audacity as they stomped on a framed photo of the two Supreme Leaders.” -Robin Wright
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