Tag: USA

USA/RUSSIA – Biden and Russia: Pressure, But Not Too Much (Emil Avdaliani, BESA Center)

As the world awaits Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the US, Washington’s relations with China are under primary scrutiny. However, ties with Russia...
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RUSSIA/USA – Russia-US Relations: Total Containment and Selective Dialogue (Sergey Ryabkov, RIAC)

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with the Interfax news agency, December 23, 2020 https://russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/comments/russia-us-relations-total-containment-and-selective-dialogue/
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USA – For a Post-Nationalist Biden (Kaushik Basu, Project-Syndicate)

America can lead a global turn away from nationalism if it actively engages with the world once again, and not only out of self-interest....
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USA – The Stampede from Silicon Valley (John B. Taylor, Project-Syndicate)

By forcing knowledge workers to telecommute, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many of the unnecessary tax and regulatory burdens that tech firms face...
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USA – Living and Dying in America in 2021 (Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Project-Syndicate)

In addition to killing at least 340,000 people in America alone, COVID-19 has accelerated economic trends that promise to undermine the lives and livelihoods...
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USA – To rebuild the foreign service, avoid an “amnesty” and promote functional roles (Jeffrey Feltman, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/28/to-rebuild-the-foreign-service-avoid-an-amnesty-and-promote-functional-roles/
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USA – Who is—and isn’t—represented in environmental oversight in Congress (Mohammed Memfis, Molly E. Reynolds, and Jackson Gode, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/28/who-is-and-isnt-represented-in-environmental-oversight-in-congress/
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USA – Trump’s US COVID aid bill approval sends stocks higher (Al Jazeera)

Global shares ticked up on Monday after US President Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3-trillion pandemic aid and spending package he had until...
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CHINA/USA/HONG KONG – China rejects US call to release Hong Kong fugitives (Al Arabiya)

China urged the United States to stop using the Hong Kong issue to interfere with its domestic affairs on Monday, after the US embassy...
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USA/IRAN – Biden needs to build on Trump success to aid Iranian people (Mariam Memarsadeghi, Al Arabiya)

Five years after the Iran deal, many of the policy minds from the Obama era are headed back into government as US President elect...
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USA/COVID RELIEF BILL – Trump signs COVID relief bill amid pressure, but adds conditions (Al Jazeera)

US President Donald Trump, on holiday in Florida, has finally signed a $2.3 trillion financial package that is crucial to millions of jobless Americans,...
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USA – What is the fight over the ‘COVID relief bill’ all about? (Larry Beinhart, Al Jazeera)

On December 21, the United States Senate finally passed a pandemic relief bill. The most attention-grabbing part of this legislation is the direct payments of $600...
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USA/MIDDLE EAST – United States interests and policy choices in the Middle East: We didn’t start the fire… (Michael S. Bell, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/united-states-interests-and-policy-choices-in-the-middle-east-we-didnt-start-the-fire/
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USA – Biden slams Trump for refusing to sign COVID relief bill (Al Jazeera)

Joe Biden, the president-elect of the United States, has urged Donald Trump to sign into law an $892bn COVID-19 funding and relief bill that...
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CHINA/USA – China to leapfrog US as world’s biggest economy by 2028: Report (Al Jazeera)

China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting...
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USA – Trump defends veto of massive US defence spending bill (Al Jazeera)

President Donald Trump has defended his decision to veto legislation authorising the United States military’s $740bn annual budget, saying in a series of Saturday...
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