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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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February 17, 2021
International Organizations
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO
Organization (WTO), the trade body’s top leadership position, former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala quickly became the universal favorite to land the top job—except for among members of the Trump administration.
May 18, 2017
Iran
Firuz Kazemzadeh: A Life Well Lived
In 1982, when I was serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, a professor of history at Yale named Firuz Kazemzadeh came to talk with me about the persecution of the Baha’i religion. …
July 8, 2015
China
Poisoning the Well of U.S.-China Relations
It was bound to happen. As China’s stock market continued its wild ride, dropping 30 percent by early July from a seven-year high only a month prior, rumors started swirling that Goldman Sachs, Morga…
March 26, 2007
Monetary Policy
Well, almost
China's reserves are growing fast because, apparently, it is a resource rich-economy: Third, foreign currency reserves have more than doubled in the past six years due to the commodities boom, which …
August 31, 2010
China
Poorly Made in China is Well Worth It
With the summer winding down, I was searching for a good China read and came across Paul Midler’s Poorly Made in China. Midler has spent close to two decades living and working in China, the latter…
