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Ending a thirty-year race to the bottom (Inside Story, Brookings)

ADAM TRIGGS US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is proposing a global minimum corporate tax rate. Criticisms of her long-overdue plan don’t stack up https://insidestory.org.au/ending-a-thirty-year-race-to-the-bottom/

USA – Economic dynamism thrives in America’s minority communities (Brookings)

Makada Henry-Nickie The COVID crisis has accelerated a tremendous loss in productive capacity. https://www.brookings.edu/research/economic-dynamism-thrives-in-americas-minority-communities/

Drone test of Hera mission’s asteroid radar (ESA)

This drone hauled a model of the Juventas CubeSat high into the air, as a practical test of the antennas designed to perform the...

USA/Japan – Suga-Biden summit to rekindle ‘can-do’ spirit of the US-Japan alliance (Brookings)

Mireya Solís On Friday, April 16, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will visit President Joe Biden at the White House. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/04/13/suga-biden-summit-to-rekindle-can-do-spirit-of-the-us-japan-alliance/

USA – How the United States can select and work with nonstate armed actors as stabilization partners (Brookings)

Patrick W. Quirk and Prakhar Sharma From Central America to Mozambique, the Biden administration faces challenges emanating from fragile states. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/04/13/how-the-united-states-can-select-and-work-with-nonstate-armed-actors-as-stabilization-partners/

USA – The changing faces of Cabinet diversity, George Washington through Joe Biden (Brookings)

Lindsay Chervinsky and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas Regardless of how one defines diversity, presidents have long realized the importance of obtaining a broad range of advice from their...

Quad/India/China – Quad now centrepiece in India’s China strategy (ThinkChina)

Yogesh Joshi In the past, India was reticent about participating in the Quad. But amid China’s growing military, economic and diplomatic assertiveness and India’s decreasing...

China’s going full speed ahead on technology innovation. Will it work? (ThinkChina)

Erik Baark, Qian Jiwei Amid intense technological competition with the US, China is more determined than ever to be self-reliant in core frontier technologies. It...

China/USA – Can Biden’s new infrastructure plan rival China’s BRI? (ThinkChina)

Yu Hong US President Joe Biden has suggested an alternative to China’s BRI — one that is enterprise-led, rather than country-led, bringing together democratic nations...

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