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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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April 12, 2024
China
China’s New Currency Peg
The peg that shall not be named, and all the trouble that creates.
October 17, 2017
China
Bitcoin and the Yuan
This is a guest post by Cole Frank, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. China watchers are always looking for new ways to gauge capital flows and pressure on the yuan. The mo…
January 13, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Ariel Sharon, R.I.P.
Former prime minister of Israel Ariel Sharon was buried today. In Commentary Magazine, I offered my thoughts about the passing of a man I worked with closely during his years as prime minister, and …
August 30, 2016
China
The 2016 Yuan Depreciation
The Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) broad effective index is the gold standard for assessing exchange rates. And the BIS shows—building on a point that George Magnus has made—that China’s c…
