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Column: What Pompeo gets right—and wrong—about China

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The Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

Instead of continuing "the old paradigm of blind engagement with China," Pompeo calls for unrelenting pressure to force Beijing to change its ways.

Mike Pompeo Defense and Security

Co-Operation: A Pre-Existing Condition

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Global Insight by Ian Klaus

Council expert Ian Klaus examines how history will remember the almost simultaneous global mobilization of policy and resources, as well as local urban adaptations and interventions.

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Jordan Hopkins
Global Health

An Interview with Robert Muggah

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Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah

Project Syndicate talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.

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"Ally On-Shoring" in the Age of China and Trump

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The New Diplomatist
John Austin

In this episode, Garrison host's John C. Austin for a discussion of his theory of "Ally On-Shoring", a proposed method of economic and security cooperation among democracies in the face of the rising challenges of a revisionist China abroad and a resurgent protectionist and nationalist attitude at home.

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Reuters
Global Economy

Mike Pompeo Challenges China's Governing Regime

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The National Interest
Paul Heer

The Secretary of State’s approach to Beijing risks confirming its suspicions about U.S. subversion while simultaneously alienating the very Chinese people that he aspires to "engage and empower."

Mike Pompeo Defense and Security

EU Budget, Russia's UK Influence, and COVID-19 Vaccine Wars

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Journalists from some of the world’s leading media outlets join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss the EU budget deal, what Europe can learn from Russian influence in the UK, and the politics of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Mufid Majnun
Global Health

Who's Winning the US-China Tech War?

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Adam Segal explains the battles between China and the US over products like Huawei and TikTok, their role in US foreign policy, and why US allies are choosing sides. 

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Reuters
Tech and Science

A Group Interview...in the Series, 'Shaking the Global Order'

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Global Summitry
Bruce Jentleson

Global affairs experts thought deeply on the questions of the Liberal Order and the consequences to American foreign policy in the Age of Trump.

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Aotearoa
US Foreign Policy

The Most Resilient People on Earth? Farmers.

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Global Food for Thought by Liam Condon

Recent years have tested the resiliency of farmers with trade wars, catastrophic floods, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers are #StillFarming.

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Tim Mossholder
Food and Agriculture

To Secure His Legacy, Khamenei Is Packing Iran's Government With Young Radicals

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Foreign Policy
Saeid Golkar

The supreme leader’s youth-washing strategy could keep detente with the United States off the table for years.

Iranian women holding national flags and pictures of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, take part a pro-government demonstration in Tehran on Nov. 25, 2019. US Foreign Policy