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Beijing extends and pretends to deal with its mountain of local government debt (Jeremy Mark – Atlantic Council)

As the pooh-bahs of the Chinese Communist Party gathered recently to extol their vision for urban modernization, China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping offered an...

Strategic resilience can help prevent tragedy in the next flash flood (Thomas S. Warrick – Atlantic Council)

The death toll from the July 4 flash floods in central Texas—at least 136 dead, including thirty-seven children—is a failure of strategic resilience that...

Russian hackers target local internet to spy on embassies in Moscow, Microsoft says (David DiMolfetta – NextGov)

A major Russian cyberespionage unit is attempting to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow by targeting local internet and telecom infrastructure used by diplomatic...

The Other AI Race: An Export Promotion Strategy for the Global South (Marianne Lu and Sam Winter-Levy – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

For many in Washington and Silicon Valley, the race to artificial general intelligence has become the defining test of U.S. technological leadership. But the...

Tariffs on Copper Imports Will Affect 45 Percent of U.S. Copper Needs (Ryan C. Berg, Christopher Hernandez-Roy, and Henry Ziemer – Center for Strategic...

U.S. copper tariffs will negatively impact minerals security, as the majority of U.S. copper imports come from partners within the Western Hemisphere that have...

Ukraine’s Economic Struggles Signal Barriers to Post-War Recovery (Tamerlan Vahabov – The Jamestown Foundation)

Ukraine’s soaring fiscal deficit, trade imbalances, and stalled reforms undermine post-war reconstruction planning. Foreign investments critical for recovery are also deterred by judicial inefficiencies, incomplete...

Moscow Opens Door to Widespread Digital Surveillance (Hlib Parfonov – The Jamestown Foundation)

New laws upping the penalties for Russians who access “extremist” content through unauthorized means reflect Moscow’s growing paranoia with an increasingly frustrated population. Russian officials...

Moscow and Tehran Working to Block U.S. Involvement in Zangezur Corridor (Paul Globe – The Jamestown Foundation)

Azerbaijan and Armenia are considering an agreement featuring U.S. management of transit through Armenia via the Zangezur Corridor to link Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan...

Inside the Israeli government’s starvation of Gaza, from an aid group trying to deliver food (Arwa Damon – Atlantic Council)

“I’m hungry,” a message comes through from a staffer working for my charity, the International Network for Aid, Relief, and Assistance (INARA). “I swear to...

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