Hit hard by the pandemic, Colombia hasn’t had the luxury of being choosy about its partners. With high budget deficits and a rising national debt, the country lost its hard-fought investment grade credit ratings in 2021. And while Colombia is expected to report GDP growth of more than 9 percent […]
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Why China Is Slow-Rolling Taliban Cooperation
China’s calculated behavior toward the Taliban is driven by a deep mistrust that has taken shape since Beijing’s initial contact with the group in the 1990s. Back then, while the Taliban’s first emirate was still in its infancy, Uyghur separatists had intensified their militancy in China, carrying out bombings in […]
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America’s Asia Strategy Has Reached a Dead End
To the extent Campbell’s remarks reflect Washington’s view of Asia, they are at once modestly reassuring and highly troubling. Reassuring because Campbell’s bland rhetorical restraint is a refreshing departure from the volatility and pugnaciousness of the Trump administration. Troubling, however, because the ideas powering U.S. President Joe Biden’s Asia policy […]
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Biden Ponders the Sanctions Doomsday Device
But the same global interconnectedness that makes paralyzing sanctions possible creates a host of risks for the United States and the West. Sanctions could trigger retaliation, including Russian restrictions on natural gas exports to Europe, which depends on Russia for about 40 percent of its imported gas. Russia would likely […]
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India Seeks to Escape an Asian Future Led by China
Although India embraced globalization at the turn of the 1990s, there was little domestic support for liberalizing trade. Opposing free trade agreements united the left and the right; even more powerful was the resistance from an Indian capitalist class reluctant to open its captive market for foreign producers. But if […]
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PM Modi To Host 1st India-Central Asia Summit Today; Here’s What New Delhi Aims To Achieve
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to host the first India-Central Asia Summit in a virtual format on Thursday. The online event will see the participation of Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed that this will be […]