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June 16, 2021

Southeast Asia
Duterte’s Ingratiating Approach to China Has Been a Bust

Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin Jr. was peeved at Beijing. It was early May, and hundreds of Chinese vessels had been regularly intruding into the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in t…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk to a meeting at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China, on on April 25, 2019.

December 31, 2019

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2019

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

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October 7, 2016

China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of October 7, 2016

Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Gabriella Meltzer, David O’Connor, and Gabriel Walker look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Thailand detains Hong Kong democracy activist. Thai authorities det…

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August 7, 2007

United States
Do US “officials” really think the dollar’s current value is a market rate?

IMF Article IV (think annual economic check-up) reports on the US usually make for pretty dull reading.   But not always.The IMF – drawing on its model for equilibrium real exchange rates – argued th…