An expert’s point of view on a current event. Biden Is Everything Europe Asked For Earlier this week I was talking to a senior French official about U.S. President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Europe for meetings of the G-7, NATO, and the European Union. It’s true, he said, that […]
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The Asian Development Bank’s Green Future
An expert’s point of view on a current event. The Asian Development Bank’s Green Future In May, to little fanfare, the Asian Development Bank (B) released a draft energy policy called “Supporting Low Carbon Transition in Asia and the Pacific,” which prohibits the bank from financing any coal mining, new […]
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China’s Diplomacy Is Limiting Its Own Ambitions
An expert’s point of view on a current event. China’s Diplomacy Is Limiting Its Own Ambitions U.S. policymakers consider China’s resurgence to be the greatest test yet posed by a rival nation-state to the United States’ security and prosperity. The White House’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance concludes Beijing “is […]
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Why Beijing Will Never Cooperate With a COVID-19 Investigation
A weekly digest of the stories you should be following in China this week, plus exclusive analysis. Delivered Wednesday. Why Beijing Will Never Cooperate With a COVID-19 Investigation Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese officials have no incentives to cooperate with the United States on […]
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The Bidenomics Revolution
Only a year ago, Joe Biden was seen as an aging if likable establishment figure whose main claim to the U.S. presidency was that he wasn’t Donald Trump. Biden himself suggested he might be a “transitional president” rather than a transformational one: Elect me, get rid of the widely hated […]
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China: CCP Official Killed By Fudan University Professor Inside Campus; Probe Underway
The School of Mathematical Sciences of China’s Fudan University on June 8 said that Wang Yongzhen, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the school, was killed, reported state-media Global Times. Shanghai police said that the prestigious university’s 39-year-old teacher with the surname Jiang allegedly stabbed a Chinese official […]