If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: European Union and Western Balkans leaders hold a summit in Slovenia, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan meets Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Switzerland, and Ferdinand […]
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Don’t Underestimate the AUKUS Rift With France
Of course, bold strategic moves and new alliances have costs. Canada and New Zealand, the two other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing relationship alongside Australia, Britain, and the United States, were unsettled. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Morrison that the new nuclear-powered subs would not be welcomed […]
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World Bank Top Officials Put Staffers ‘under Pressure’ To Boost China’s Ranking: Report
World Bank’s top officials placed its staffers “under pressure” to alter data to inflate the rankings for China and Saudi Arabia in 2018 and 2020 editions of the report, concluded an independent investigation. The law firm commissioned by the World Bank to conduct the probe, WilmerHale found that then-CEO Kristalina […]
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Will AUKUS Hit China Where It Hurts?
Emma Ashford : Good morning, Matt! I hate to be the bearer of bad news for Washington’s think tank community, but it looks like the French won’t be hosting gourmet dinners or elegant soirees at the embassy anytime soon. They’re pretty angry at the United States, and it’s all the […]
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Afghanistan Is No Treasure Trove for China
None of these powers marshaled the will to tap Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, but many analysts now speculate that, with the United States out of the picture, China may be the first to do so. This concern is somewhat understandable. Chinese companies use enormous quantities of mineral resources and hunger for […]
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Unsatisfied party members threat to the leadership of Xi Jinping
Beijing, China: Xi Jinping’s leadership in danger as the Chinese Communist Party has internal conflicts and economic disparities in the Chinese Communist Party. Yusara Askari, writing in The Singapore Post said that if the coercive methods of Xi Jinping continue to grow against his CCP members then certainly he may […]