Reuters: Cheng Li on President Xi Jinping Xi appears to have traded securing favorable amendments to the constitution in exchange for a compromise on the make-up of the Standing Committee....
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The Catholic Church is coordinating shipments of construction equipment for families on islands largely destroyed by hurricanes Irma and Maria....
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What started with an isolated event has expanded into a massive cross-border military operation to provide food, aid and infrastructure....
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Pandemics are the greatest global risk by far, with the potential to wipe out between 5 and 10 percent of the world's GDP....
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The election of Donald Trump and the selection of a successor to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf this fall threaten to undo recent progress....
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Former Fellow Cheng Li (China, 1993-1995) discusses the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) upcoming 19th Party Congress in a series on the Brookings website. The page, “which will be updated throughout the 19th Party Congress, features research and analysis from Brookings experts, who unpack the trends and signals that are most essential to follow.” Click here...
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Former Fellow Andrew Rice (Uganda, 2002-2004) wrote an article published by New York Magazine regarding former U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, and his new podcast Stay Tuned with Preet. “Earlier this year, under circumstances that are still somewhat mysterious, Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump. Upon his ouster,...
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Former Fellow Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009) wrote an article published by The New York Times Magazine regarding the possibility, as a foreigner, to experience a country as its people do. Hansen remarks that “authenticity in travel, taking in a culture on its own terms, has become an increasingly implausible endeavor, but it’s still a popular...
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Former Fellow Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009) talked about her book Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, in an interview with Elmira Bayrasli for C-SPAN. Hansen “reports on international perceptions of America’s power and influence as well as her own view of the U.S.” Click here for the interview....
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Former Fellow Carol Rose (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, 1990-1993) was quoted in an article published by Gloucester Times regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ statement that “loose immigration policies for a proliferation of drug cartels that he says prey on immigrant communities while peddling fentanyl and other deadly opioids on the nation’s streets.” Sessions describes La Mara...
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