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July 31, 2023

United States
Meet Will Hurd, Republican Presidential Candidate

The former CIA clandestine officer and former congressman from Texas is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Will Hurd

June 3, 2016

China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of June 3, 2016

Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Theresa Lou, Gabriella Meltzer, and Gabriel Walker look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. China releases ambitious plan to clean up polluted soil. In 2014, the …

China Soil Pollution

February 1, 2017

Privacy
China’s Big Data Push Runs Into Orwell and Red Tape

Lorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai.  Like most policymakers around the world, the leadership of the C…

May 8, 2014

China
Boko Haram Kidnapping Protests Go Viral

This is a guest post by Allen Grane, intern for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Allen is currently an officer in the Army National Guard. His interests are in Africa, conflic…

Nigeria, DC Protest

November 1, 2018

Human Rights
Abusive Military Partners: What Can the U.S. Do About It?

Abuses committed by African militaries in the fight against Boko Haram have raised important questions about U.S. military involvement in the conflict, particularly the debate about U.S. military assistance and the role of the nearly 1,800 U.S. personnel across West and Central Africa.

A Nigerien security agent participates in a simulated raid on a militant camp during the U.S. sponsored Flintlock exercises in Ouallam, Niger, April 18, 2018.