There are growing efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to diminish economic disparities between thriving global city regions and struggling communities in industrial heartlands.
"We have to deal with China and the way to deal with it is to engage with it," argues Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer in the Wire China.
"While Russia can’t win, it won’t lose. Instead, it will hold out until Ukraine is willing to bargain," Paul Poast writes.
“Both sides continue to pursue policies that appear aimed more at competition and confrontation,” writes Paul Heer in the National Interest.
By tying itself to China, Germany risks making its mistakes with Russia all over again, argues Senior Nonresident Fellow John Austin.
The election for speaker of the Republican-majority House was a bad omen for US aid to Ukraine and US democracy, Paul Poast writes.
Craig Kafura offers insights into Washington's ties with Tokyo.
"If the United States presses for arms control and agrees to limits itself, it could convince others to follow suit," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
It’s one thing to commit to a stronger military and another thing to use it, Craig Kafura argues.
Despite getting people off the streets, Iran's hard crackdown on protesters "has created a massive resentment among Iranians."
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