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January 18, 2024

Technology and Innovation
Don’t Let AI Become the Newest Digital Divide

AI will bring major breakthroughs in areas like education and medicine. However, lack of internet access could prevent many people from benefitting from these innovations.

10-year-old Fiammetta attends her online lessons surrounded by her shepherd father's herd of goats in the mountains, while schools are closed due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, in Caldes, Italy.

January 14, 2023

Japan
Don’t Overlook Japan’s Diplomatic Heft

It has been a busy week in Washington, DC.

Kishida and Biden walk side by side in dark suits on a sunny outdoor colonnade. Both are smiling, and Biden is gesturing with his hands as he speaks.

March 21, 2022

Russia
Don't Pivot From the Pivot to Asia

Russia's struggles in Ukraine reveal a pivot to Asia is still the right strategy.

President Barack Obama announces the pivot to Asia in a speech to the Australian Parliament on November 17, 2011.

May 3, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Trump Talks Foreign Policy With Time Magazine

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Donald Trump gave his most detailed interview on foreign policy yet. He made some dubious claims bu…

Trump

June 24, 2021

Nigeria
Former President Obasanjo Argues for the Unity of Nigeria

Against a backdrop of growing calls for ethnically based separatism, including in former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s native Yorubaland, the former president in a speech laid out the arguments for maintaining Nigeria’s unity—though not at any cost. Speaking June 9 in the Yoruba heartland city of Abeokuta, where he lives in retirement, Obasanjo argued that Nigerians will fare better staying together: “it is better for Nigeria to remain as one indivisible nation than for each tribe to go its separate way.”

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is seen with a large group of reporters holding cameras and microphones.

March 10, 2024

China
China’s Record Manufacturing Surplus

The U.S. likes talking about the dominance of the dollar. But don’t short-change China’s current dominance of manufacturing trade. Trade imbalances need to be taken seriously again.

Manufactured Goods Surpluses