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April 14, 2022

Financial Markets
What in the World Is a Global Minimum Tax?

For years, large corporations have exploited international tax laws to pay less taxes. But last year, 137 countries backed a potential solution: a 15 percent corporate tax applied regardless of a com…

Podcast Money

September 8, 2020

News Release
CFR Welcomes Visiting Fellows

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes the 2020–21 visiting fellows to the David Rockefeller Studies Program. Selected fellows have the opportunity to broaden their perspective of foreign af…

November 5, 2013

China
China’s Xinjiang Problem

This post first appeared on CNN’s GPS blog and can be found here. In the aftermath of an apparent suicide attack in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on October 27 that injured dozens of people and killed …

A child looks out from a door as a Uighur woman walks by in a residential area in Turpan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on October 31, 2013 (Michael Martina/Courtesy Reuters).

April 19, 2009

China
(Green) bamboo shoots?

Economists scouring the globe for highs of hope (or at least a slower rate of decline) have found a few green shoots in China. A smaller fall in the March import data. A faster y/y rise in indus…

(Green) bamboo shoots?

February 12, 2020

Israel
A Conversation With Ehud Olmert

Former Prime Minister of Israel and Mayor of Jerusalem Ehud Olmert discusses the history of, and future prospects for, resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including a discussion on President …

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