Tag: USA

American Rescue Plan funds can jump-start stalled opportunities for youth (Martha Ross, Lili Allen, Annelies Goger, and Avni Nahar, Brookings)

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) may have entered—and quickly exited—national consciousness six months ago, but its effects are only beginning to be felt at...
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The US-Taliban deal on Afghanistan is not a ‘model’ (Kabir Taneja, ORF)

Nearly 75 days after the Taliban seized full control of Afghanistan, the economic and political situation in the country is already pulling Western states...
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Top US general: China missile test ‘very close’ to Sputnik moment (Al Jazeera)

Top US General Mark Milley has called China’s recent hypersonic missile test “very close” to a Sputnik moment. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
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China says Taiwan ‘has no right’ to join UN, after US nod (Al Jazeera)

China has again said that Taiwan has “no right” to join the United Nations, a day after the United States voiced support for the...
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Can US missile-defence systems handle China’s new missiles? (Malcolm Davis, The Strategist)

A pair of reports in the Financial Times have set the defence community abuzz with the suggestion that China has tested a new hypersonic glide vehicle, possibly with a fractional...
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Australia still caught up in Biden’s China blame game (James Curran, East Asia Forum)

The spectre of Donald Trump stalks Joe Biden’s White House and other corridors of power in Washington.   A recent Iowa poll showed that Trump would...
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US’ attempt to sow discord won’t break solid China-ASEAN ties (Global Times)

For the first time in four years, the US President took part in a virtual summit with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian...
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Convince China that US supports ‘one-China policy’: ex-US envoy (Yang Sheng and Guo Yuandan, Global Times)

Former US ambassador to China J. Stapleton Roy said that the situation in the Taiwan Straits has reached a dangerous level, and the US...
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Chinese Embassy in US refutes US’ support for Taiwan’s involvement in UN (Global Times)

China resolutely refutes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's remarks calling on support for the island of Taiwan's involvement in the United Nations (UN),...
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Chinese FM raises four key questions, demanding truth from US on nuclear submarine collision in S. China Sea (Global Times)

The US must reveal the truth and its intention behind the recent nuclear submarine collision incident in the South China Sea and give a...
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How the U.S. can compete with China on digital justice technology (Jason Tashea, Brookings)

China is exporting digital authoritarianism around the world, yet the debate over how to best counter its efforts to export surveillance tools has largely...
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Where is the Fed Vice Chair for Supervision? (Peter Conti-Brown, Brookings)

Randal Quarles, the first Trump appointment to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, finished his four-year term as the Vice Chair for Supervision on...
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Voter suppression or voter expansion? What’s happening and does it matter? (Elaine Kamarck, Brookings)

This year has seen a flurry of activity in state legislatures as they enacted laws that either made it easier or harder to vote....
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Climate as a National Security Threat (Columbia SIPA)

The Pentagon has released its most ambitious blueprint to date for how the Department of Defense—the largest government agency in the United States and...
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Supporting Taiwan’s Participation in the UN System (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE Taiwan has become a democratic success story.  Its model supports transparency, respect for human rights, and the rule...
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Pentagon AI Chief Responds to USAF Software Leader Who Quit in Frustration (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Weeks after the Air Force’s first chief software officer resigned in frustration, a top military official says Nicholas Chaillan was wrong to assert that China...
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