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How Trump will Impact the Indian and Chinese Geopolitical Chessboard?
January 16, 2017 5 min. read

If Trump wants to take his China policy to its logical conclusion, he should capitalize on and galvanize strategic ties with India.

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Free Trade Taking a Beating in U.S. Election
August 24, 2016 4 min. read

In a sharply divided electorate, opposition to free trade is creating an unlikely point of unity between angry voters across the aisle.

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U.S. Presidential Candidates are Wrong on the TPP
March 7, 2016 6 min. read

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, put together at the end of last year and signed at the beginning of last month, has not come into effect yet. Nonetheless, presidential candidates have spared no effort decrying it, turning the issue into a political piñata used to score points.

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Weekly Risk Outlook
February 1, 2016 7 min. read

Iowa Caucuses open. Argentina to introduce settlement offer. U.S. economy slows. Nations of TPP sign pact. Peace efforts in Syria continue. All in this Week’s Risk Outlook.

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Maritime and Cyber Security Lessons From Before World War I
June 30, 2015 5 min. read

Is the U.S. accidentally preparing for World War I again? In this two-part series, leading thinkers from a prior era of globalization instruct us on maritime and cyber security today.

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Forty Years After the War, Vietnam Welcomes the U.S.
May 4, 2015 3 min. read

On April 30, Ho Chi Minh City, commonly referred to as Saigon, marked the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam, after the army of communist North Vietnam brought down the government of South Vietnam, and drove out the Americans following two decades of unsuccessful military involvement.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: How the 1% Continues to Steal Us Blind
December 18, 2013 6 min. read

As ordinary Americans are continuously distracted by Holiday shopping deals, Dancing With the Stars, and things in their own, personal lives, the wealthy one percent class of elites that we hear so much about has kept its eye on the prize. Ordinary Americans might be wondering if the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at record […]

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Obama and Xi to meet in the desert
June 7, 2013 5 min. read

This weekend’s meeting in the California desert between a re-elected President Obama and his new Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will likely leave a large imprint on one of the world’s most important relationships in the years to come. Though the six-plus hours of meetings spread over two days will be unscripted, one important topic of […]

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The Asia Pivot Has Credibility Problems
March 22, 2013 10 min. read

Tom Donilon, the U.S. national security advisor, was at the Asia Society in New York last week to talk (transcript here; video here) about the Obama administration’s effort to shift Washington’s strategic focus away from the military quagmires of the Greater Middle East to the dynamism of Asia – a region where, as the president […]

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Free Trade Agreements: Reducing Access to Medicine for the World’s Poor?
August 11, 2012 4 min. read

Recently, the European Union and India have been in the news for a near-final free trade agreement, as have the United States and the 10 other countries who are hammering out the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While these agreements could bolster economies that were weakened by the recession or that are struggling to emerge, they also […]

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