10/25/2021: Africa’s record-breaking free trade agreement, Singapore’s free speech infringement

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Pocket dictionary: price controls and price freezes. Argentina creates 90-day price freeze on 1200 household goods nationwide. Africa forms world’s largest free trade agreement. Singapore passes Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act.

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Argentina’s price freeze:

• Buenos Aires Times: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-agrees-90-day-price-freeze-for-more-than-1200-products.phtml

Africa’s free trade sources:

• AU: https://au.int/sites/default/files/documents/36085-doc-qa_cfta_en_rev15march.pdf
• World Bank: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/trade/publication/the-african-continental-free-trade-area
• The Economist: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/03/22/forty-four-african-countries-sign-a-free-trade-deal
• Brookings Institute: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/09/22/quantifying-the-impact-on-nigeria-of-the-african-continental-free-trade-area/

Singapore’s free speech sources:

• Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/singapore-parliament-to-debate-foreign-interference-law
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/singapores-new-foreign-interference-law-leaves-journalists-like-me-with-an-impossible-puzzle
• The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-defends-russian-election-interference/2020/10/21/533b508a-130a-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html
• Freedom House: https://freedomhouse.org/country/singapore/freedom-world/2021