She copied in the firm’s chief executive, Alexander Nix, and several other internal and external partners who would be coordinating with one another on the covert campaign to re-elect Jonathan and discredit his rival, the then opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari. “If you are on the ground please meet with SCL [Cambridge Analytica] Nigeria team,” she told Hanan. Once the second-busiest harbour in the world after New York, Aden’s significance has waned since Yemen’s independence in 1967, driven by decades of war and political crisis left in Britain’s wake, while advances in shipping have reduced the need for stopovers. Yet the choke point between the Horn of Africa and Arabian peninsula has remained strategically important for international trade since. Escalating tensions in the Middle East, rising oil prices and lengthy delays to international shipping have been hogging the headlines in the past few days. But with military intervention in the Red Sea and disruption to global trade, all bets are off. “The fact that they choose to hold elections shows that they see the value of claiming to have a free vote,” she said.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to conduct in-depth, nonpartisan research to improve policy and governance at local, national, and global levels. Read more about Media Dissemination here. President William McKinley’s closest political adviser Mark Hanna is sometimes described as the first political consultant. This time around, there are again warnings from European companies about empty shelves and higher prices, including from Ikea, Tesco and Aldi. Half of all toys imported and about two-fifths of homewares imported to the UK come from China, according to the consultancy Retail Economics. Tesla and Volvo have paused production because of component shortages at their European factories. Adding to the logistical meltdown, droughts have reduced crossings of the Panama canal between the Atlantic and Pacific.
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For just $5/month, you can help sustain Marketplace so we can keep reporting on the things that matter to you. ‘Designboxed’ had also worked on the Karnataka campaign with DK Shivakumar and the Congress had secured a big victory there based on the ‘guarantees’ that the Congress offered. “Slowly, we realised that our message was getting across to the people despite the Designboxed type of headlines and narrative that ‘all was well’.
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Information on relevant national procedures to join ODIHR courses and on courses organised at the national level can be requested from respective focal points. Team Jorge was responsible for “opposition research”, or finding the material that could be leveraged to undermine Buhari. When one staffer met “Joel”, another Team Jorge operative, in Switzerland in January, the imminent poll in the west Africa country was apparently on the agenda. Corporate executives and policymakers had been spending much of the past two years talking about decoupling and deglobalisation, amid a buzz around “reshoring” of supply chains from Asia closer to home.
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Now, it must deal with the outcome, at a time when it may not be in the mainland’s interests to have an armed conflict, according to Zhao Minghao, a professor at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. The KMT garnered more than 3.9 million votes while the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) took about 3.1 million. In parliament, the KMT snagged 52 seats, while Lai’s DPP only took 51 and the TPP grabbed 8. Still, Lewis noted that on China policy, the amount of daylight between Lai and his main rival, Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang Party (KMT), was limited, highlighting where public opinion in Taiwan stands. But analysts don’t think Beijing wants to provoke a war at this point, and will carefully process early signals from the newly elected Lai. “I am nobody to comment about what is wrong with Congress. I can only say that the problems of the party are much deeper than what appears in their electoral performance of last decade. They are more structural,” he said.
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