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(Koreas) Looking beyond the North in South Korean foreign policy (East Asia Forum)

Chung Min Lee, Carnegie Endowment As President Joe Biden begins to recalibrate the United States’ role and place in the world after Trump’s tumultuous presidency,...

(USA/Indo-Pacific/Digital Trade) Digital trade deal ripe for the Indo-Pacific (Brookings)

Wendy Cutler and Joshua P. Meltzer U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has gotten off to a busy start in her new role with a flurry of calls to her counterparts from...

(Space) TechTank Podcast Episode 16: What we can learn about Mars from the Perseverance exploration (Brookings)

Darrell M. West In February, the latest U.S. rover named Perseverance landed on Mars and began what is expected to be a historic exploration of...

(USA) Washington has supplied the dollars to save small businesses, but local leaders need to supply the strategy (Brookings)

Joseph Parilla Small business stabilization is a central plank in the nation’s economic response to COVID-19. Over the last 12 months, the federal government has...

University of Alaska Fairbanks-U.S. Department of State Host Conference One Health, One Future (US Department of State)

MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The U.S. Department of State is partnering with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Center for One Health Research to host the...

(China) China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing’s two voices in telecommunications (Brookings)

Rush Doshi, Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson External Chinese government and commercial messaging on information technology (IT) speaks in one voice. Domestically, one hears...

(Senegal) Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A Senegal case study (Brookings)

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Fatou Gueye, Assane Beye, Abdou Khadir Dia, and Massaer Mbaye In this paper, we analyze specific “industries without smokestacks” and their potential contribution to economic growth...

Department Press Briefing – April 5, 2021 (US Department of State)

NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON MR PRICE: Okay, good afternoon. As you see, we have a couple guests with us today. We’ll get to that in just...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks to the Press on the COVID Response (US Department of State)

REMARKS TO THE PRESS ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE BEN FRANKLIN ROOM WASHINGTON, D.C. SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good afternoon. Since the United States recorded its first COVID-19 death in...

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