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(Laos) Elite family ties still bind the Lao Peoples’ Revolutionary Party (Martin Stuart-Fox, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/21/elite-family-ties-still-bind-the-lao-peoples-revolutionary-party/  

(USA/Joe Biden) Biden’s inaugural address—unity and truth (William A. Galston, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/01/20/bidens-inaugural-address-unity-and-truth/

(USA/Afghanistan) Writing Off Afghanistan: Does Biden Have a Choice? (Anthony Cordesman, CSIS)

The United States has now spent nearly a year reducing its military, diplomatic, and aid presence in Afghanistan. It has never made the full...

(North Korea/USA) Why Is North Korea Showing the World So Many New Missiles? (Doug Bandow, The National Interest)

Can Biden keep relations steady and at least avoid an escalation? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/why-north-korea-showing-world-so-many-new-missiles-176663

(Koreas) Hope Is No Strategy for Moon Jae-in on North Korea (Daniel R. DePetris, The National Interest)

In the twilight of his presidency, Moon’s North Korea policy is running on hope—and fumes. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/hope-no-strategy-moon-jae-north-korea-176665

(North Korea) What Happened to National Geographic’s North Korea Documentary? (Stephen Silver, The National Interest)

Why the two hour feature never aired still remains unclear. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/what-happened-national-geographic%E2%80%99s-north-korea-documentary-176669

(USA/Party System) Is America Stuck With Its Dysfunctional Party System? (Paul R. Pillar, The National Interest)

No expressed regrets about the assault on the Capitol or eleventh-hour resignations can hide the extent to which other members of Trump’s political party...

(USA/Yemen) Designating the Houthis a Foreign Terror Organization Is a Bad Idea (Daniel L. Davis, The National Interest)

It is not in America’s interest to further sink itself into the morass of Yemen’s civil war by picking one side against the other—and...

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