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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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April 11, 2007
Emerging Markets
It is hard for the world to diversify away from the dollar when the world’s holdings of dollars need to rise by about a trillion a year
OK, I probably should strike “world” and insert “the world’s governments” instead. It is pretty clear that central banks and oil investment funds provided the bulk of the financing the US needed in …
April 5, 2007
China
Think again (China no longer just assembles imported components)
Dated perceptions of China: Chinese banks are filled with NPLs. China runs a surplus with the US but a deficit with the rest of the world, so its trade is in rough balance.China just assembles imp…
March 28, 2014
International Organizations
You Might Have Missed: Ukraine, Rep. Mike Rogers, and Drones
Jeanne Whalen and Alan Cullison, “Ukraine Battles to Rebuild a Depleted Military,” Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2014. In recent weeks Mr. Yarema has turned to Washington and NATO for help, but wit…
January 31, 2012
International Organizations
The United Nations Then and Now; and What it Means for Syria
This month marks the seventieth anniversary of the “United Nations.” Not as a formal organization—that would occur in San Francisco in 1945—but as a wartime alliance. After Pearl Harbor, President Fr…
November 20, 2020
Transition 2021
Transition 2021: Should Lame-Duck Presidents Make Major Foreign Policy Decisions?
Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump is using all the powers of his presidency and creating a host of problem…
