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Repression and Mass Arrests of Peaceful Cuban Protestors (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE Starting on July 11, tens of thousands of Cubans in dozens of cities and towns throughout their country...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Mexican Foreign Secretary and Central American Foreign Ministers (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power met yesterday with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Foreign Ministers...

Jordan and America’s decades-long friendship (Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan, Brookings)

For over 70 years, Jordan has been an important ally in the Middle East for the United States, a connection built largely on the...

China moves to join the CPTPP, but don’t expect a fast pass (Mireya Solís, Brookings)

On September 16, China formally submitted a request to accede to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement. This was not surprising...

Africa must produce its own vaccines (Landry Signé, Brookings)

During the pandemic, wealthy countries led the way in rapidly developing and producing COVID-19 vaccines. The same countries then bought up and administered those...

Biden should end America’s longest war: The War on Drugs (John Hudak, Brookings)

The War on Drugs, not the war in Afghanistan, is America’s longest war. It has used trillions of American taxpayer dollars, militarized American law...

Can fintech improve health? (Aaron Klein, Brookings)

Access to electronic financial services, in particular digital money, has replaced the digital divide as an unintended yet significant barrier for low-income individuals to...

Beneficial ownership in Mongolia: A way forward (Michael Barron, Tim Law, Jake Hartnett, Batsugar Tsedendamba, Amar Adiya, and Ariuntsetseg Jigmeddorj, Brookings)

Beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) is important to build trust and confidence in the integrity of extractive industries, and indeed a country’s entire economy. Demands...

Why the AUKUS Submarine Deal Is Bad for Nonproliferation—And What to Do About It (James M. Acton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

On Wednesday, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced the formation of a new trilateral security partnership, AUKUS. Its first project will be “to...

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