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 Is Running a Hostage Negotiation With the Taliban
The prospect of thousands of U.S. and allied hostages remaining in Afghanistan without U.S. military assistance leaves the United States and its fellow democracies vulnerable to extortion. International recognition as Afghanistan’s legitimate government will be the Taliban’s critical first step toward gaining additional concessions and resources, such as direct economic […]
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China Is OK With Interfering in Guinea’s Internal Affairs
China’s condemnation is something of a surprise, given that Beijing has predicated its foreign policy on the principle of noninterference since 1955—basically staying out of other countries’ “internal affairs,” whether that’s a rebellion, coup, or human rights abuses. China never truly abided by this principle—former Chinese leader Mao Zedong aided […]
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Pressured By China, Lithuania Won’t Back Down Over Taiwan
“There are no plans currently to remove the option of opening the representation [office] in Taipei,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told Foreign Policy in a recent interview. “We’re still going with it.” The showdown appears to have degenerated into a stalemate. Beijing recalled its ambassador from Vilnius—the first time […]
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How 9/11 Will Be Remembered a Century Later
Yet despite these unavoidable uncertainties, asking how 9/11 might be seen in 2101 is still a useful exercise because it helps place the event within a broader geopolitical context. I can think of at least two broad and radically different possibilities (plus a third wild card). Ironically, which possibility comes […]
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Afghan Army soldiers to be deported back to Afghanistan; worries right group
New York, US: The Afghanistan Army soldiers who feld to Usbekistan might be sent back to their country which raises concern. Following the US exit from Afghanistan on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other groups fear that Uzbek authorities will send back the Afghan refugees, where they would be […]
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China Is Laying Climate Traps for the United States
Kerry and his team face three major traps their Chinese counterparts keep striving to lay. The Biden administration—including Kerry himself—has explicitly promised not to make concessions to Beijing in return for climate cooperation. But despite that pledge, linkage remains a real trap. The CPP’s unrelenting pursuit of political leverage at […]
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Argentina’s Unlikely Climate Push
If you would like to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: carbon-heavy Argentina hosts a climate summit , Venezuela’s opposition talks to the Maduro government, and Miss Universe El Salvador 2021 wants to legalize abortion. Welcome back to […]
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Can the United States and China Cooperate on Climate?
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. climate envoy John Kerry urges climate cooperation in China, India imposes a lockdown in Kashmir , and Ethiopia’s aid blockade exacerbates a humanitarian crisis. Here […]
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Beijing 2022: China Prepares For Winter Olympics Amid Growing Internal Protests
Keeping an eye on the Beijing 2022 Olympics, China is gearing up to open international borders to allow the safe arrival of the Winter Olympics participants next February. Olympics authorities informed that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics organisers attended the Tokyo Olympics to take valuable lessons and understand strategies to […]