The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC serves as a critical warning that the global health security system is fundamentally unprepared for future biological threats. The difficulty in containing this outbreak is compounded by the rising risk of emerging pathogens and the growing potential for AI misuse in bioweapon development. Policy must therefore shift from reactive, crisis-driven funding to sustained, proactive investment in resilient public health infrastructure, particularly in conflict zones. Addressing this requires strengthening global surveillance, ensuring consistent international cooperation, and mitigating the intersection of conflict, climate change, and disease spread.
Dollar dominance is surviving the Iran war – just about
English Summary
While US assets demonstrated relative resilience and maintained their safe-haven status during the Iran conflict, the Chatham House analysis cautions that this stability may be conjunctural rather than structural. The good performance of the dollar and US markets may simply reflect the US's current economic insulation, particularly its status as a major energy and weapons producer. Policymakers should note that this reliance on US strength is challenged by the remarkable stability of rival economies, such as China, whose financial calm suggests that global currency dominance is subject to multiple, non-US-centric factors.
中文摘要
儘管美國資產在伊朗衝突期間展現出相對韌性並維持了其避險資產地位，查塔姆學會的分析警告稱，這種穩定性可能只是偶然的，而非結構性的。美元和美國市場的良好表現，可能僅反映了美國當前的經濟隔離狀態，特別是其作為主要能源和武器生產國的地位。政策制定者應注意，這種對美國實力的依賴正受到競爭對手經濟體（如中國）顯著穩定的挑戰，而中國的金融平穩狀態暗示著全球貨幣主導地位，受制於多重、非美國中心因素。
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