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August 15, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
The US Needs More than a Critical Minerals Stockpile, It Needs Market Infrastructure

Last month, Ganfeng Lithium, China’s largest lithium producer and refiner, announced plans to establish a $1.1 billion trading desk “to reduce the risk of market fluctuations” associated with its gro…

Employees monitor screens showing real-time footages of mining operations in a ground control centre, at Xiaobaodang Coal Mine, during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Shenmu of Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

September 18, 2024

Venezuela
More Hostages But No More Sanctions: The Failure of Biden Administration Venezuela Policy

The arrest of a fourth American hostage by the Maduro regime in Venezuela shows the failure of Biden administration policy there. It is time to reimpose sanctions on Venezuelan oil.

April 18, 2023

United States
Lessons From History Series Meeting: The Foreign Policy Legacy of the George W. Bush Administration

Panelists discuss the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency, its successes and failures, and the lasting effects that were passed on to subsequent U.S. presidents. The Lessons From H…

Play U.S. President George W. Bush sits with the leaders of Russia, Germany, and the United Kingdom

September 5, 2024

Philippines
Why Tensions in the South China Sea Are Bolstering the U.S.-Philippines Alliance

Manila has fully allied with Washington amid increasingly dangerous standoffs with Beijing in the South China Sea, heightening the prospect of a wider war.

An aerial view shows the BRP Sierra Madre on the contested Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin, in the South China Sea.

July 23, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Alex Perry on Nigeria’s Boko Haram

With its violence, its ritualized executions, its mixture of the utterly archaic with AK-47s and YouTube videos, its behavior modeling based on a nineteenth century interpretation of an obscure medie…

The Hunt for Boko Haram: Investigating the Terror Tearing Nigeria Apart, by Alex Perry

September 16, 2024

United States
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Reagan—His Life and Legend by Max Boot

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in…

Play President Ronald Reagan at Republican convention Rally in 1982.

July 22, 2024

Trade
Toward a More Prosperous, Less Polarized, Worker-Friendly Economy

The United States has long relied on tax-and-transfer programs to address the problem of inequality, but these have failed signally to mitigate growing societal polarization. A new approach to econom…

High angle view of workers holding American flag in factory.