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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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February 22, 2013
China
The Presidential Inbox: China’s Leadership Transition
Experts discuss China's leadership transition and its implications for U.S.-China relations.
October 26, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Significant Developments in Syria, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. A deadly car bomb exploded in Damascus today just hours after the Eid holiday ceasefire, brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi between Syria’s …
October 25, 2012
China
Will the Real Chinese Leaders Please Stand Up?
For more than two decades beginning in 1956, CBS and then NBC aired a television show “To Tell the Truth,” in which a panel of celebrities attempted to identify which one of three contestants was tel…
July 24, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Poverty Rate Expected to Reach Highest Level Since 1965
The Associated Press reports that the poverty rate is expected to rise from its 2010 level of 15.1 percent; an increase as small as 0.1 percent would be the highest level since 1965. Joblessness play…
December 19, 2005
China
The Chinese conundrum: External (financial) strength, domestic (financial) weakness
I disagree with Michael Mandel on the US current account deficit - I think it is a concern, he doesn't. We also disagree on the US fiscal deficit. He doesn't think it is a big problem; I disagree…