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Daily Memo: Blocking Keystone XL, Rising Terrorism in Russia

Killing Keystone. U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order to revoke the permit that would allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline between Canada and the U.S. on the grounds that the project would not serve U.S. interests. The move will hit Canada’s oil-producing province of Alberta the hardest; its premier called the move […]

Daily Memo: US Accuses China of Genocide

Genocide. On his last full day as U.S. secretary of state, Mike Pompeo labeled China’s treatment of ethnic Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang as genocide....

Europe’s Exposure to Turkey’s Problems

For well over a year, Turkey has been projecting an image of itself that is out of sync with the reality at home. It...

Daily Memo: Nord Stream 2 Roadblocks, China’s Coronavirus Resurgence

Pipeline roadblocks. Russian energy giant Gazprom has warned that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project could be suspended or scrapped because of political pressure...

Obama, Trump and Biden: Consistency in Foreign Policy

U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and...

Daily Memo: China’s Year of Growth, Navalny’s Unwelcome Return

Chinese growth. China’s economy ended last year as if nothing interesting happened in 2020. Fourth-quarter growth registered at a brisk 6.5 percent year on...

Taiwan and the Geopolitics of Microchips

Last week, Ford Motor Co. became the latest in a bevy of carmakers to announce production halts due to a global shortage of microchips....

Daily Memo: Sanctions and Trade Deals

Happy anniversary to a trade deal. It's the one-year anniversary of the signing of the "phase one" trade deal between the U.S. and China....

The Dilemma of Iran’s Islamic Revolution

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution ended Iran's nearly five centuries of uninterrupted imperial rule. But it continued the Persian tradition of territorial expansionism...

Brief: More Russian Weapons Headed for Belarus

Background: Belarus is a strategic ally of Russia and a critical part of its western buffer, bordering Poland and two of the Baltic states....

Daily Memo: Chinese Exports Surge, Iranian Moves Escalate Tensions

Chinese trade. Chinese exports in December jumped a whopping 18.1 percent compared with the same month a year earlier – a month that, looking...

Understanding Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters and detractors are both obsessed with him. They share the belief that everything that has happened is because of...
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