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May 13, 2024

Taiwan
Taiwan's Democracy Is Thriving in China's Shadow

Despite China’s growing pressure, Taiwan has developed one of the world’s strongest democracies—one that will be increasingly tested in the coming years. 

Electoral workers count votes for a 2021 referendum at a ballot counting center in Taipei, Taiwan.

September 27, 2023

South Korea
The Camp David Trilateral Summit Expands Trilateralism Beyond North Korea

The inclusion of China in addition to North Korea as a shared security concern among the United States, South Korea, and Japan has established a new milestone for strengthened trilateral cooperation…

U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrive for a joint press conference during the trilateral summit at Camp David on August 18, 2023.

August 17, 2023

South Korea
The Trilateral Summit at Camp David: Institutionalizing U.S.-Japan-South Korea Coordination

The U.S.-Japan-South Korea summit at Camp David reflects trilateral institutionalization. However, the real threat to effective trilateralism lies in the domestic political environments of the three …

U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on the day of trilateral engagement during the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, 2023.

April 23, 2015

United States
Warren Weinstein, R.I.P.

Today President Obama announced that the American hostage Warren Weinstein had been killed by an American drone strike last January, presumably in Pakistan. Here is part of the White House statement…

May 12, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
UN Halves Its Estimate of Women and Children Killed in Gaza

Between May 6 and May 8, the UN cut in half its estimates of the number of women and children killed in Gaza. The estimates were based on Hamas numbers and are a reminder that all fatality estimates …

May 10, 2024

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: May 10, 2024

State Department releases digital diplomacy strategy; Microsoft bans police from using AI facial recognition; sixty eight companies sign CISA pledge; researchers discover whale alphabet; Microsoft in…

People walk past a poster simulating facial recognition software at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China on October 24, 2018

January 10, 2019

Ethiopia
David Pilling's African Year in Review

He recalls the popular challenge now underway against Omar al-Bashir’s rule in Sudan; the deaths of Kofi Annan, the first African secretary General of UN, and Winnie Mandela, a flawed leader of the South African liberation movement; the highly positive emergence of the reform-minded Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister; and the international attention to Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege, who won a Nobel Peace prize for his work with rape victims.

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