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September 19, 2007

United States
The July TIC data

A few quick observations on yesterday's TIC data.Foreigners sure didn't like US long-term debt in July.   The "quality" of the financing of the US deficit fell dramatically.   Almost all the inflows,…

December 5, 2007

China
Competition — and coordination — within the Chinese state as China goes forth

Today’s Financial Times has an important article by Geoff Dyer and Sundeep Tucker examining the overseas expansion of Chinese companies in general, and Chinese state companies in particular.  It is a…

August 1, 2009

North Korea
The Missing Consensus: U.S. Policy Specialist Views on Korea

Stephen Costello is President of ProGlobal, Inc. He previously directed the Program on Korea at the Atlantic Council of the United States and was Director of the Kim Dae-jung Peace Foundation, U.S…

Amb. Susan Rice on North Korean Missile Launch

January 14, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Hu Is Coming

U.S. President Barack Obama meets China's President Hu Jintao in Seoul. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington next week for his first visit …

U.S. President Barack Obama meets China’s President Hu Jintao in Seoul

January 20, 2011

Politics and Government
The Calculations of Tunisia’s Military

Tunisian army soldier stands in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali during a demonstration in Tunis on January 20, 2011 …

The Calculations of Tunisia’s Military