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(USA/Politics) Biden’s Pick for Attorney General No Stranger to Washington Politics (VoA)

U.S. President Joe Biden’s pick for attorney general, Merrick Garland, is no stranger to Washington politics. https://www.voanews.com/usa/bidens-pick-attorney-general-no-stranger-washington-politics

(Indo-Pacific Region/Global Supply Chains) Building Resilient Global Supply Chains: The Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region (CSIS)

Hiroyuki Suzuki Global supply chains have evolved in recent decades with the aim of maximizing efficiency. https://www.csis.org/analysis/building-resilient-global-supply-chains-geopolitics-indo-pacific-region

(Sub-Saharan Africa/Cities) Set Up for Success: Charter Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (CSIS)

Judd Devermont, Heba Elhanafy In this edition of Talking Urban Futures in Africa, urban researcher Heba Elhanafy speaks to CSIS Africa Program director Judd Devermont about...

(Vietnam) Vietnam shores up its Spratly defenses (CSIS)

Vietnam continues to make modest improvements to its facilities in the Spratly Islands. In cooperation with Simularity, AMTI has reviewed satellite imagery from the last...

(Colombia/Venezuelans) Colombia Makes History by Offering Protective Status to Displaced Venezuelans (CSIS)

Erol Yayboke, Jacob Kurtzer In a joint announcement on February 8, Colombian president Iván Duque and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi announced that Colombia...

(USA/Universities/Innovation) 5 questions for Korok Ray on the relationship between universities and innovation (AEI)

James Pethokoukis and Korok Ray Are American universities set up to foster innovation? Do higher education institutions do enough to help student and faculty inventions...

(USA/Politics) The return of earmarks: A Q&A on what’s happening and what to expect (AEI)

Kevin R. Kosar Various reports indicate that congressional Democrats intend to bring back earmarks. Politico quoted Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) as saying they will return — and...

(Huawei/China/USA/West) The Huawei challenge, then and now (AEI)

Claude Barfield It has been a full decade since I first began to analyze the implications of Huawei’s rise in this long paper. https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/the-huawei-challenge-then-and-now/

(Europe/Gas Pipelines) Failed gas projects have cost EU €440 million, new research shows (Euractiv)

Frédéric Simon In less than a decade, the European Union has spent €440 million on gas pipelines that have either never been completed or are...

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