The fraught relationship between Asia’s two major powers makes former Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s recent book, The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India, both topical and invaluable. No other work, scholarly or otherwise, specifically examines China’s negotiating behavior with India with this level of analysis. Gokhale, who […]
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The Strategic Logic of a Forever War
Business schools teach their students that this type of pathology—which might encourage withdrawal from a business venture due to past losses—needs to be overcome with cold logic, and that all decisions about continued investment need to focus solely on the expected utility of any future actions while ignoring unrecoverable costs […]
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The Other 9/11
If you would like to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: Chileans move to address the legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship, Uruguay eyes a free trade deal with China, and Brazil is shaken by pro-Bolsonaro rallies. Welcome to […]
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Biden Must Move Fast to Replace WHO’s Tedros
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, Tedros has been pandering to Beijing and helping it cover up its failures. In January 2020, he said that China’s “cooperation and transparency is very, very commendable, and we really appreciate [it].” That praise came three weeks after the Wuhan Public Security Bureau […]
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North Korea Held a Midnight Military Parade and No One Is Sure What to Make of It
Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: North Korea throws a night-time parade, the Taliban announce a new interim government for Afghanistan, and China probes Taiwan’s defenses with new military exercises. …Starting with the most pressing national security question of all: Who will catch the five zebras on the […]