Day: May 7, 2022

For its part, the Biden administration has essentially replicated the policy of previous U.S. administrations toward the Korean Peninsula, continuing a “pressure and more pressure” approach: articulating a willingness to talk without any actual policies or practical measures designed to produce positive movement in U.S.-North Korean relations. To be sure, […]

The United States, the world’s largest aid donor, directs its spending to just about everybody except the governments of developing countries. It pays the U.S. military to provide emergency relief services; subsidizes private firms to invest in infrastructure projects; funds NGOs to deliver aid in the health, education, and humanitarian […]

If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, looking at the meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador , new U.S. funding for Ukraine , and more news worth […]

For the past decade, Russia has been cultivating ties with countries in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa—regions from which Russia withdrew after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. And the Kremlin has assiduously courted China since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. When the West sought to […]

Cyber hacking group ‘Anonymous’ has recently hacked a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) website, further warning Beijing not to attempt “anything stupid against Taiwan.” In the midst of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Anonymous stated that it is taking a break from the cyberwar on Russia, Taiwan News reported. Further, the group […]

If you would like to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: The United States looks past Brazil , Argentina , and Mexico ’s wavering on Ukraine, a major endorsement shakes up Colombia ’s presidential race, and El Salvador […]