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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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March 14, 2009
Monetary Policy
China has more to worry about than its Treasury holdings
Premier Wen knows how to get attention; all he has to do is raise a few doubts about China’s ongoing willingness to keep on buying US assets. The FT, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times …
September 3, 2008
China
Forget about the CIC. The state banks are the real story for now
Rose Yu and Amy Or’s Wall Street Journal story on China’s reduced appetite for Agency bonds is loaded with interesting detail. And not just about the fall in Chinese state banks’ holdings of Agenc…
July 29, 2015
United States
The U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue: Drift Along the Nile
My friend and colleague, Amy Hawthorne, wrote this terrific preview of the upcoming U.S.-Egypt strategic dialogue. I hope you find it interesting and useful. On August 2, U.S. Secretary of State Jo…
January 24, 2014
Intelligence
You Might Have Missed: USS Cowpens, French Reapers, and the World Economic Forum
Samuel J. Locklear III, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, “Department of Defense Press Briefing by Admiral Locklear in the Pentagon Briefing Room,” U.S. Department of Defense, January 23, 2014. Q: …
November 17, 2014
International Organizations
African Union Peace Operations: From Rhetoric to Reality
—Djibouti, East Africa The slogan of “African solutions to African problems” has long been a seductive mantra, attractive to African and Western governments alike. The phrase suggests a new era of c…
