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New constitutional amendments have cleared the path for Chinese President Xi Jinping to serve beyond the previous 10-year two-term limit. What does having Xi around longer mean for China’s Asian neighbours – especially as the hugely unpredictable U.S. continues to send mixed signals to the region?
And, with the Winter Olympics now over, this year’s competitors are returning home – sometimes to an uncertain future. A sports psychologist and former Olympian describes the difficult decisions these Olympians need to make, particularly those whose identities are closely tied to their sport.
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Dylan Loh Ming Hui, University of Cambridge
Xi Jinping is now ruling without term limits. That's bad news for corrupt officials – and perhaps for the Chinese people.
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Most athletes leave the Olympics disappointed and empty-handed.
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Edward Etzel, West Virginia University
For athletes returning home – especially those who are on the cusp of retirement – the transition can be daunting.
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Politics + Society
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Agnès De Féo, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
A number of women who once wore and defended the full Islamic veil known as the niqab later chose to renounce it. Here two of them tell their stories.
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James Newell, University of Salford
He's barred from public office but this former prime minister isn't going to be held back by the small matter of a conviction for tax evasion.
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Michael Wesley, Australian National University
Without a clear full stop there can be no certainty that the unravelling of the British Empire has ended even now.
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Business + Economy
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Danita Catherine Burke, University of Southern Denmark; Andre Saramago, Universidade Lusíada Porto
With all eyes on China's intentions in the Arctic, Singapore is flying under the radar. But the tiny Asian nation is also pursuing its own interests in the Arctic.
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Science + Technology
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Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Feb. 28 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Gunnerside. A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi facility and stopped Hitler from getting the atomic bomb.
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Harry Zandberg Wiggins, University of Pretoria
Through abstraction, the underlying essence of a mathematical concept can be extracted.
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Environment + Energy
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Wilhelm de Beer, University of Pretoria
The beetle and the fungus have devastated trees in California in the US as well as in Israel. Now they're in South Africa.
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