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Latin America/USA/China – How Latin America Should Navigate US-China Tensions (Felipe Larraín, Pepe Zhang, Project-Syndicate)

Once a peripheral presence in Latin America, China has become one of the region’s most important partners. Bilateral trade expanded from $12 billion in...

Globalization – Is Globalization Harming Innovation? (Dalia Marin, Project-Syndicate)

Globalization encourages innovation, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But emerging evidence suggests that this assumption, like so many economic shibboleths, must be rethough. The...

China – China’s digital renminbi initiative is a network, not a currency (Matthew D. Johnson, The Strategist)

Publicly revealed by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) in 2019, China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project—the Digital Currency Electronic Payment, or DCEP—is an...

Iran – Iran’s polyarchal presidential election (Amin Saikal, The Strategist)

Amid enormous domestic and foreign-policy challenges, the oil-rich, but US sanctioned, Islamic Republic of Iran is scheduled to hold its 13th presidential election on Friday....

Space – The commercial advantage in space’s grey zone (Malcolm Davis, The Strategist)

In 2019, Russia employed an intelligence-gathering satellite to make a close approach—known as a rendezvous and proximity operation, or RPO—with a US spy satellite. The...

Democracies – An alliance of democracies is essential (Michael Jonathan Green, The Interpreter)

Susannah Patton and Ashley Townshend argued in The Interpreter last week that the Morrison government should steer the Biden administration away from a coalition of world democracies since...

Russia – Russia’s energy sector: Accumulating effects of Western sanctions (Maria Shagina, The Interpreter)

Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and incursion into eastern Ukraine, the West imposed targeted sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, the most revenue-generating...

USA – Resilience vs. Efficiency (William Reinsch, CSIS)

Last week, the Biden administration produced its report on supply chains in four critical sectors: semiconductor chips, batteries, critical minerals, and pharmaceuticals. Two hundred...

USA/Northern Ireland – A Renewed U.S. Commitment to Peace in Northern Ireland (Donatienne Ruy, CSIS)

Last week U.S. president Joe Biden arrived in the United Kingdom as part of his first official overseas trip with two clear messages: (1)...

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