Report on the attitudes of major countries on the adoption of RMB for oil settlement in Iran

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Since taking office in 2017, US President Donald Trump has implemented a tough policy towards Iran. In May 2018, Trump announced his withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement, and later imposed comprehensive sanctions on Iran and imposed an embargo on Iranian oil. The Iranian government has made many efforts to break the diplomatic deadlock. On March 27, 2021, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi jointly signed the 25-year Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which contains an important information that the oil settlement and trade between China and Iran will be settled in Chinese RMB and digital RMB. The yuan became the currency of calculation for Iranian oil. This move on the one hand broke the diplomatic deadlock of the United States blockade of Iran, on the other hand, for Iran, accelerated its "de-dollarization" trend, and caused reactions from all walks of life in Iran.

Report on cooperation in cultural exchanges between the United States and Middle Eastern countries

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Famous think tanks led by the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies have put forward many specific policy suggestions and programs for the US government to effectively carry out public diplomacy and win this battle of ideas. Meanwhile, they have set up various think tank research centers in the Middle East. For example, the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace's Middle East Research Center in Beirut, Lebanon, the Brookings Institution's Doha Center and the Saban Center for Middle East Policy employ not only Western countries such as the United States and Europe, but also many experts and scholars from Middle Eastern countries. Their operation model draws on the way multinational companies set up branches overseas. It seeks to make them overseas platforms for the dissemination of American policy ideas and values.

Report on investment by Chinese enterprises in the Rosing uranium mine in Namibia

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According to an investigation carried out by Carlo Koos, M.A., political scientist, on whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa, it was suggested that – compared to the baseline conflict risk – uranium ventures increase the risk of intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic exclusion to be a much better predictor of armed conflict than uranium. The microlevel analysis reveals that uranium‐spurr

Report on the challenges faced after the opening of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia

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This paper aims to analyze the challenges after the opening of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail in Indonesia. Discussions will be held on economic challenges, people's acceptance, political transition, and the impact of China-Indonesia relations, with a view

Report on the current situation of Chinese mining enterprises in Indonesia

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The background of Chinese mining companies in Indonesia is mainly based on the demand for Indonesia's rich mineral resources, as well as the focus on Indonesia's economic growth and investment opportunities. Indonesia is a famous country rich in mineral resources in the world

Report on the Ethiopian debt crisis

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China is an important economic partner for Ethiopia. It is the second-largest importer of Ethiopian goods (after the US), and the largest source of Ethiopian imports – over 24% of the goods imported by Ethiopia in 2018 came from China. At least since