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How the Past Shadows China’s Future
Play Listen to the Episode 00:00 / 00:00 MP3 Close audio player The biggest questions in U.S. foreign policy today tend to be about China. Policymakers and analysts argue over the implications of China’s rise, the extent of its ambitions, the nature of its economic influence, and the meaning of its growing military strength.
How to Secure the Sky
On June 1, Ukraine’s security services launched a covert strike on five air bases across Russia. More than 100 attack drones smuggled into Russia in plywood cabins on trucks driven by unsuspecting Russians destroyed bombers sitting on tarmacs as far away as the Belaya air base in Siberia, around 3,000 miles from Kyiv. According to Ukrainian government sources, the strikes took out about one-third of Russia’s long-range bomber force and cost Moscow roughly $7 billion.
Grand Chessmaster
Twenty-nine people have formally served as U.S. national security adviser since the National Security Act of 1947 established the post. Originally described as the “executive secretary” of a small coordinating body, the National Security Council, to “assess and appraise” U.S. national security objectives and consider policies to advance those goals, the position has evolved into one of the most demanding and powerful roles in the U.S. government.
Can Syria Break the Cycle of Tyranny?
The toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria shattered the illusion that stability in the Middle East can be sustained through brute force. The Syrian regime was one of the most brutal in the world. Its atrocities, long known or suspected but hidden from view, have been laid bare: the prisoners routinely tortured and killed, the detainees exposed to sunlight for just ten minutes each year, the children born in jail cells who have never seen a bird or a tree.
What Jimmy Carter Left Behind
In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun my career working for Carter, but far away from international affairs, serving as a staffer in the White House Congressional Relations Office.
The Drone Threat Comes Home
On January 17, 2022, Houthi rebels in Yemen sent a group of armed drones on a journey of nearly 1,000 miles. Launched alongside ballistic missiles as part of a coordinated attack, the drones flew into the United Arab Emirates, a member of the Saudi-led coalition the Houthis are fighting. After passing above the Abu Dhabi skyline, some of the drones started a fire at the city’s airport. Others hit a group of oil trucks at a state-owned fuel depot, killing three people and injuring six.
Trump's Trade War Is Wrong Way to Compete With China
Trump's Trade War Is Wrong Way to Compete With China
Trump’s Trade War Is the Wrong Way to Compete With China
The rivalry between the United States and China is here to stay. But the Trump administration is bringing the wrong tools to the contest, applying blunt trade-war tactics reminiscent of the nineteenth century instead of crafting a strategy to keep the United States the world’s economic and technological leader in the twenty-first. Defensive protectionism will not meet the China challenge; only domestic revival can do that.
Trump Is Misleading the American People About North Korea
AP Photo/ Evan Vucci Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are set to meet this week in Hanoi for their second summit. Diplomacy is clearly the preferable path, but the president has not leveled with the American people about the nature of the North Korean nuclear threat or about what his outreach has accomplished. The seriousness of the threat requires candor from the Oval Office. There are two basic problems heading into the summit.
BlackRock Geopolitical Risk Dashboard
FOR INSTITUTIONAL, PROFESSIONAL, WHOLESALE, QUALIFIED INVESTORS AND QUALIFIED CLIENTS ONLY. FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION IN THE U.S. Source: BlackRock Investment Institute, with data from Thomson Reuters. Notes: The financial assets shown are those we have identified as being historically sensitive to swings in the selected BGRI. Our gauge of sensitivity is the correlation between returns on these assets and weekly moves of 0.2 standard deviations or more in the BGRI from 2003 to May 2018.
Lessons from the Obama Administration: Why Gender Equality Should Continue to Be Part of U.S.
Research illustrates what we have to gain by letting the whole team play, as it were, in economies around the world. At the global level, around 50 percent of women are working, compared to over 76 percent of men. A 2016 McKinsey report estimated that, if the global gender gap in workforce participation were to close, global GDP would rise by $28 trillion by 2025. That amounts to about a quarter of the world’s current GDP and almost half of the world’s current debt.
Advantage, America
To look around the world is to realize how fortunate the United States is to share a continent with friendly, stable, and democratic nations. Devastating conflicts in the Middle East, tense territorial disputes in Asia, a resurgent Russia, and now a historic threat to the European Union all underscore the extent to which North America offers the United States a uniquely advantageous strategic base. But the relative calm and prosperity of this continent must not be taken for granted.
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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