This year, Foreign Policy published a five-part series on the lives and struggles of U.N. sanctions experts, who face threats of rape, violence, and murder as they struggle to enforce Security Council sanctions. Based on extensive interviews with current and former sanctions experts and access to thousands of pages of […]
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Biden and Asia: Modest Progress, Ongoing Confusion
Take China first. Biden’s team ditched the pugilistic chaos of its predecessor, laying the groundwork for Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet virtually in November. Their conversation, if hardly groundbreaking, was at least positive in tone. Elsewhere, the administration has crafted a rhetorical middle path. “We are not […]
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U.S.-Russia Talks Reach Murky Conclusion
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: U.S.-Russia talks end inconclusively in Geneva, the Organization of Turkic States meets on Kazakhstan , and United Nations aid agencies launch Afghanistan plans. Here is today’s […]
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Fibs About Funding Aren’t Espionage, Even When China Is Involved
The Justice Department announced that Lieber lied to federal authorities about his affiliation with China’s Thousand Talent Program (a flagship program for recruiting overseas talent) and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), in addition to failing to report the income he received from WUT. The official Justice Department release asserts […]
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Houthis Strike Abu Dhabi as Yemen War Drags On
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Yemen’s Houthis strike Abu Dhabi, North Korea opens to overland trade, and China’s birth rate sees historic drop. If you would like to receive Morning Brief […]
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Biden’s First Year
Even though allies and partners are now the foreign-policy tool du jour, there’s an important area of continuity between Biden and the former commander in chief he once told to “shut up” on the debate stage. Biden has put together a retrenchment-minded foreign policy that has seen U.S. troops pull […]